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By Foster Kamer 3:21pm

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 Kat Stoeffel 12/27/10 4:46pm

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Portfolio’s Joanne Lipman on Getting Fired

The Economist executive editor Daniel Franklin and Portfolio “founding editor in chief” Joanne Lipman (the Ghost of Magazines Present and the Ghost of Magazines Past?) were on WNYC’s The Takeaway this morning with lots of interesting predictions for 2010 (Ghana is gonna be huge.).

Our takeaway is of course the “silly questions” closer, when Lipman Read More

By Molly Fischer 10/13/09 10:04pm

BusinessWeek Speculation Frenzy Ends: Bloomberg Buys

Bloomberg LP, the leading contender to buy BusinessWeek, has bought BusinessWeek.

Unfortunately for the magazine (which The Times says will be renamed Bloomberg BusinessWeek), this probably means it will no longer be a hot topic of media conversation. Ever since BusinessWeek went up for sale, everyone–Daily Transom Read More

By John Koblin 6/01/09 7:27pm

David Margolick Joins Newsweek

David Margolick, the ex-New York Times star and Vanity Fair contributor who found himself without a job after Portfolio folded, has a new home: Newsweek.

Mr. Margolick has signed a contract to write four to five stories a year for the newly re-imagined newsweekly, said Jon Meacham, the editor.

“He’s a Read More

By Gillian Reagan 5/04/09 2:49pm

Food Advocate Naomi Starkman on Contacting Reporters Via Twitter: ‘They Don’t Even Answer Their Phones… But They Will Respond to You on Twitter’

On Saturday, May 2, Naomi Starkman, a food policy media consultant to the Consumers Union and previously media consultant to The New Yorker, Portfolio and Wired, was sitting in a classroom at the Brooklyn Food Conference in Park Slope’s John Jay High School explaining how Twitter is one of Read More

By Matt Haber 4/03/09 4:08pm

Inside Baseball: Mark Bowden’s Shot Heard ‘Round The World (Wide Web)

On Monday, the editors of Vanity Fair posted Mark Bowden’s May 2009 write-around on Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. on the Web. The story, which was Mr. Bowden’s first for the magazine, made quite an impression on the small—and ever-shrinking—community of media reporters and pundits who obsess about The New York Times, not to mention the Read More

By Matt Haber 3/26/09 12:44am

Abrams Research To Launch Media Blog: Writers From Gawker, New York, and Others Approached

Dan Abrams wants in on the media blogging and aggregation business.

For the past several months, Mr. Abrams—the chief legal analyst for NBC News and head of the nascent media strategy firm Abrams Research—has been meeting with various New York-based media reporters, editors, and bloggers about the potential editorial venture.

To date, nobody has signed Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 3/03/09 9:20pm

Barry Ritholtz’s Bailout Nation, Canceled by McGraw Hill, Will Be Published By Wiley & Sons

Barry Ritholtz’s Bailout Nation, which was written for but canceled in early February by McGraw Hill over a disagreement about its contents, has a new publisher in John Wiley & Sons.

Mr. Ritholtz has said that McGraw Hill canceled Bailout Nation out of a desire to protect the reputation of the company’s credit rating Read More

By Matt Haber 1/23/09 8:45pm

Report: U.S. News To Go Weekly Again as Digital Edition

In November, U.S. News & World Report went from biweekly to monthly after it had already scaled itself back from a weekly publication in June.

Now, Portfolio‘s Mixed Media blogger Jeff Bercovici reports that the magazine is returning to a weekly schedule, albeit in a digital-only form. The new publication will be Read More

By Matt Haber 1/19/09 4:12pm

Hey, Hirschorn: Times May Save Itself With the Help of Slim Helú

Two weeks ago The Atlantic‘s Michael Hirschorn crunched some numbers and determined that the New York Times Company might be in such bad shape it could be forced to cease printing The New York Times "like, this May."

Mr. Hirschorn’s essay resulted in much hand-wringing in Medialand: Portfolio‘s Felix Salmon re-checked Mr. Hirschorn’s Read More

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

Portfolio’s Joanne Lipman on Getting Fired

BusinessWeek Speculation Frenzy Ends: Bloomberg Buys

David Margolick Joins Newsweek

Food Advocate Naomi Starkman on Contacting Reporters Via Twitter: ‘They Don’t Even Answer Their Phones… But They Will Respond to You on Twitter’

Inside Baseball: Mark Bowden’s Shot Heard ‘Round The World (Wide Web)

Abrams Research To Launch Media Blog: Writers From Gawker, New York, and Others Approached

Barry Ritholtz’s Bailout Nation, Canceled by McGraw Hill, Will Be Published By Wiley & Sons

Report: U.S. News To Go Weekly Again as Digital Edition

Hey, Hirschorn: Times May Save Itself With the Help of Slim Helú

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