By Foster Kamer 7/25/12 3:21pm

MEDIA BRIEFS

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Power Lunch: Is This Another Conde Nast Roman a Clef?

Who’s the character behind the latest bit of Conde Nast roman a clef? What does Barry Diller think of his newly-owned print magazine? What constitutes superficial beauty in a place as fundamentally ugly as D.C.? Did Malcolm Gladwell cause the recession? Does he wish he did? Who is producing the most powerful journalism of the day? And will Robert take K-Stew back? Today’s Power Lunch is brought to you by the Four-Cosmo Circa 2007 Michael’s Expense Account Lunch and Towncar Combo, and offers no real answers to any of those questions. These are your afternoon media briefs:  Read More

By John Koblin 3/31/10 12:53am

Exiled Condé Editors: The Lost Years

So what happens to an editrix after Si Newhouse shuts down her magazine?

Dominique Browning wrote in The Times Magazine last weekend that her life went into a free fall after House & Garden was shuttered in 2007. She details how she spent much of her time in pajamas, how she thought about death, how Read More

By John Koblin 5/19/09 11:02pm

Portfolio.com to Get Lazarus Treatment

Is Joanne Lipman’s shuttered Condé Nast business magazine, Portfolio, about to come back from the dead? Partially!

American City Business Journals, which is operated by Condé Nast parent company Advance Publications, “has expressed real interest in taking it over,” according to a source.

But the relaunch wouldn’t come out of 4 Read More

By John Koblin 4/29/09 12:22am

At Portfolio, Prehistory Was Prologue

It turned out to be a dreary, rainy day back in 2005 when Joanne Lipman, the superstar editor from The Wall Street Journal, made her way to answer a summons to lunch at Si Newhouse’s apartment on the East Side of Manhattan.

A personal invitation from the venerable chairman of Condé Nast was unheard of Read More

By Irina Aleksander 2/10/09 10:21pm

Work It Out! High-Profile Ladies Bond and Sweat Together

There’s nothing like gallons of sweat to bring people closer, and so Allure magazine editor Linda Wells, film producer Jane Rosenthal, Fox 5 news anchor Rosanna Scotto and NBC CEO Jeff Zucker’s wife, Caryn, spin together at trendy Upper West Side gym Soul Cycle, which offers classes with names like Soul Survivor and Soul Burn. Read More

By Matt Haber 2/02/09 5:10pm

A Tale of Two Condés

"[W]hen the current [New Yorker] editor, David Remnick, ordered up a bunch of articles for the magazine’s formidable presidential inauguration issue, some of the reporters drove to Washington and stayed at friends’ houses. Mr. Remnick, who was among those who bunked with a friend in Washington, declined comment, beyond suggesting it was just common sense Read More