From Keith Kelly’s account of payment disputes at Louise Bouin Media, publisher of Modern Painters and ArtInfo:
The disgruntled freelancers from artinfo have banded together to form an ad hoc group that they’ve dubbed WAAANKAA — which stands for Writers Angry At Artinfo Not Kidding Around Anymore.
The group claims to have several Read More
In a few short months, W magazine will be moving out of the Fairchild ghetto on Third Avenue and into space on the 19th floor of the Condé Nast building at 1166 Sixth Avenue, Stefano Tonchi told The Observer this afternoon.
“They were probably bank offices before,” Mr. Tonchi said.
That will not work!
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Former Condé Nast editorial director James Truman spoke about the future of publishing at a San Francisco conference recently, and what he had to say sounds a lot like what we’ve been talking about in this space for the last few months.
Gawker Media’s io9 has a report: "Here’s what [Truman] decided about print Read More
Former Conde Nast editorial director James Truman has resigned his job as editorial director of Louise T. Blouin Macbain’s media company.
He informed Ms. MacBain last week, in person, in London, that his resignation was effective immediately.
The debut issue of LTB Media’s ‘Culture and Travel’ was recently celebrated at Ms. MacBain’s Richard Meier penthouse. Read More
If I’m in a pugnacious mood, I write,” Martin Peretz said. “If I’m not, I don’t.”
Mr. Peretz, the editor in chief and part owner of The New Republic, was on the phone Aug. 8 from his home in Cambridge, Mass. He had turned off the television to take the call. Mr. Peretz Read More
Like an ambassador from an alien land populated with smarter, taller and richer blond bombshells, Louise T. Blouin MacBain stood behind a podium in a Columbia University auditorium. She asked the assembled spectators if the leaders of the planet Earth did “not require a new, more creative brain in this new evolution of mankind?”
The Read More
This fall, S.I. Newhouse Jr. moved House and Garden out of Condé Nast’s headquarters at 4 Times Square. It was the first title to leave the flagship Condé building since it opened in 1999.
But House and Garden will still be in a Condé Nast building: the new 258,000-square-foot space at 750 Third Avenue, Read More
There is no conflict, James Truman said. He was referring to his recent month-long retreat in Woodstock with a pair of Tibetan Buddhist teachers, and whether or not it clashed with his role as editorial director of Condé Nast.
“You want to find a contradiction between my post-retreat self and the magazines that I oversee,” Read More
After Steve Florio, the president of Condé Nast, had made the grisly and somewhat surprising statement at the Details offices on Monday, March 20, he opened the floor up to the staff for questions.
The first to pipe up was Pamela Warr, a promotion associate. Ms. Warr had been helping set up a Hollywood Read More
After Steve Florio, the president of Condé Nast, had made the grisly and somewhat surprising statement at the Details offices on Monday, March 20, he opened the floor up to the staff for questions.
The first to pipe up was Pamela Warr, a promotion associate. Ms. Warr had been helping set up a Hollywood Read More
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