As part of its 15th anniversary celebration, Wired has posted a few videos and articles in which its founders look back at what they got right and wrong in the early days of the magazine.
One of the videos features the magazine’s former executive editor, Kevin Kelly, whom The New York Times Read More
One of the remaining bidders for the West Side rail yards, a team of the Durst Organizaiton and Vornado Realty Trust, said it is expecting that S.I. Newhouse’s Condé Nast will remain part of its bid as an anchor tenant.
“We expect that Condé would be our partner,” said Durst spokesman Jordan Barowitz. Read More
A little after 6 p.m. at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Condé Nast president Richard Beckman was sharing a drink—vodka, olives—with Condé Nast CEO Chuck Townsend. The two were discussing the same thing everyone in the lobby of Jazz at Lincoln Center at the Time Warner Center was talking about: What the National Magazine Awards Read More
MONDAY
Monday’s future just got a little bit bleaker. Dancing With the Stars (ABC)—whose finale last Tuesday earned the network its best ratings on that night in over seven years—cha-cha-cha-ed out of our lives. CBS canceled their December 10th debates, as the Democratic nominees balked, fearing the bad publicity of a Read More
Writing on The Observer‘s Real Estate blog, Tom Acitelli notes a Wall Street Journal story about how even though the weak housing market may have been responsible for the collapse of Condé Nast’s House & Garden, the "shelter mag" genre is enjoying a moment of disproportionate prosperity.
Media buyers say the Read More
“You know service is the best Prozac, or any drugs that are out there for stress. Service! It’s cheap, it’s good!” AIDS activist and Keep A Child Alive founder Leigh Blake told audiences yesterday at Condé Nast’s Black Ball in support of her organization.
Ms. Blake, who left school at 14 to follow the Who Read More
When Condé Nast moved its headquarters from Madison Avenue to 42nd Street in 1999, it brought instant credibility to the Times Square office market. Now, only eight years later, Condé Nast is again making plans to relocate its headquarters to another untested area for big-name Manhattan office tenants.
Condé Nast intends Read More
In the wake of Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of Dow Jones, another veteran Wall Street Journal reporter is leaving the paper to join Conde Nast’s Portfolio.
Scot Paltrow, a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal, will join Portfolio as a contributing editor, starting Sept. 1.
He follows Peter Waldman there; the investigative features writer announced Read More
Radar Online and Gawker are reporting that Conde Nast has shuttered Jane magazine, the young women's title that tried to walk in the same kitten heels as the legendary Sassy.
"Jane spent 2006 essentially on death watch, as ad pages cratered by 20.9%, according to the Publishers Information Bureau," reports Crain's.
And: Read More
MemoPad is reporting that the Bono Vox guest-edited July issue of Vanity Fair, with its theme of Africa, will up the ante on that whole "collect-'em-all" cover trend:
"Sources close to the title said it could publish as many as 20 different covers, all shot by Annie Leibovitz."
Insiders seem to be telling MemoPad Read More
