Lengthy piece in the Sunday NYT about whether Condé Nast’s highly successful — if at times quirky — business practices will serve it well in the years ahead. The publisher seems less perturbed than its competitors about the changes that might loom in an increasingly digital future, but just how much longer can the market [...]
Condé Nast Publications has announced plans to close Golf for Women magazine, amid changing media habits and a shrinking economy. In a statement on Monday, Chief Executive Charles H. Townsend said the company planned to close the bimonthly magazine, because it “will not support our long term business objectives.” The wall Street Journal [...]
LOUD3R, a network of 25 websites that aggregate enthusiast online content, has bought 500 domain names and plans on creating 10 new sites a month until all 500 are up and running. The network is similar to that of Inform Technologies which is used by Conde Nast and is based on an internally-built semantic publishing [...]
As of 2006, Katherine Rizzuto had been publisher of Brides, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, and Your Prom. But under Bill Wackermann’s new authority, each title in the bridal bundle was set free this past March, to strengthen their individuality. The unbundling left Rizzuto as publisher of Brides only, while her associate publisher, Jennifer [...]
Wayne Reynolds, who has worked in information technology for Vanity Fair in both Los Angeles and New York, previously worked as an audio technician for a private investigator, who is presently on trial on wiretapping and racketeering charges. The private investigator, Anthony Pellicano, and Mr. Reynolds were very close and are now facing off [...]
Tishman Speyer Properties beat out the Durst Organization and Vornado Realty Trust on Wednesday with a bid of more than $1 billion to develop Manhattan’s West Side rail yards. Condé Nast was attached to the failed bid, so their future midtown office space plans have become murkier. Women’s Wear Daily (Mar. 27, 2008)
Jay Lauf is leaving Condé Nast’s Wired and heading over to The Atlantic, where he will try to get the 150-year-old iconic opinion and analysis journal out of the red and back into the black. Lauf is stepping in for Elizabeth Keffer’s old position of vp, publisher. Keffer will be taking over Atlantic Live, the publication’s [...]
Thirty-Six of Condé Nast’s titles were recognized with National Magazine Award nominations. Hearst and Time, Inc. both received 7 nominations each. National Geographic Society received 6. And Rodale, four. Twenty-five winners will be announced on May 1, 2008. MediaWeek (Mar. 19, 2008)
Condé Nast has appointed two Interview magazine veterans to top editorial positions at European editions of Vanity Fair. Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Condé Nast International, said that he began recruiting Sandra J. Brant and Ingrid Sischy “…literally within a minute of learning that they were available.” Brant and Sischy will both be based in New York City. The [...]
Brant Publications, parent company of Interview magazine, has named former V magazine and V Man magazine editor Christopher Bollen as the new editor-in-chief of Interview magazine. Former editor-in-chief, Ingrid Sischy, left the magazine a little over a month ago. Bollen will report to two new co-editorial directors, Fabien Baron and Glenn O’Brien, who were appointed shortly after Sischy’s [...]