After 13 years at the healm of Russian Vogue, Aliona Doletskaya submitted her resignation to Jonathan Newhouse earlier this week, according to Memo Pad. Mr. Newhouse has already named a replacement, Viktoria Davydova.
Ms. Davydova worked under Ms. Doletskaya at Vogue as a beauty editor until 2002, when she left to work on the Read More
What with the fiery collapse of the magazine and newspaper industries, Condé Nast’s Newhouse dynasty has graver concerns than getting top-dollar for company apartments around town. Still, it had to be at least mildly annoying that their five-bedroom duplex at East 76th Street’s Promenade, listed last December for an outrageously fair $4,995,000, just sold for Read More
The most interesting thing in Richard Perez-Pena’s 3,330 word write-around profile of Si Newhouse is the language from Condé Nast executives about the importance of the Web.
Ronnie Cooke Newhouse could barely answer the question, she was laughing so hard. “No, you’re not talking to a future Mrs. Astor,” she said finally.
O.K., maybe the query was a bit inappropriate for Ms. Newhouse, a founding editor and fashion director of the original Details magazine in the 1980′s and former creative director for Read More
After four months of clandestine negotiations, Bertelsmann A.G., the German media giant, closed the deal to acquire Random House Inc., on the morning of March 23. By that evening, Bertelsmann’s chief executive designate, Peter Olson, and a half-dozen of his colleagues were making themselves quite at home in another New York institution, the restaurant “21.” Read More
