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By John Koblin 1/07/09 8:34pm

Donald Trump, Jr. Reads Portfolio

New York’s monthly real estate glossy, The Real Deal, has a one-page photo feature on what appears on the desks of the Trump scions: There’s Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric.

No doubt the folks at Rubenstein Associates (who also reps us!) did a little work tidying up their desks, and doing Read More

By John Koblin 12/23/08 4:27pm

Portfolio’s Dov Charney Issue Not a Hit on the Newsstand

Back in November when Portfolio put American Apparel CEO Dov Charney on its cover instead of a cover that addressed the then-imploding financial world, it left us scratching our heads.

If the decision was a cosmetic one—the logic being that a sultry image of Dov Charney lying on a couch would do better on Read More

By Matt Haber 11/14/08 4:46pm

Jon Friedman Saves Portfolio in Under a Minute

In his latest 37-second Media Web Minute (are these things getting shorter?), MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman turns his attention to Condé Nast’s business magazine, Portfolio, which regular readers of Media Mob may know has been having a tough few weeks.

Ever Read More

By John Koblin 11/13/08 8:41pm

‘After the Fall’: Porfolio Confronts Its Crisis

Two months after Lehman Brothers crashed, and one month after its puzzling Dov Charney cover, Portfolio has finally addressed the financial crisis.

Michael Lewis gets the cover story, and, defying the magazine’s recent tradition, the lead image isn’t a person. Portfolio‘s cover is an image of Wall Street’s Charging Bull statue, Read More

By John Koblin 11/11/08 10:56pm

Web Editor Dan Colarusso Leaving Portfolio, Condé Nast

One person who won’t stick around at portfolio.com is its editor, and ex-New York Post business editor, Dan Colarusso.

"I’m going to be staying through January 31st to help a newly appointed Managing Editor to take over the site," Mr. Colarusso told Media Mob in an interview.

Portfolio.com was recently gutted amid larger Read More

By Matt Haber 11/06/08 8:34pm

Time Inc. Lays Off Money Managing Editor; Eric Schurenberg Called ‘A Fixture’ by Editor-in-Chief John Huey

Portfolio‘s Mixed Media blogger Jeff Bercovici is reporting that Money managing editor Eric Schurenberg has been laid off as the company’s cost-cutting jobs elimination plan begins.

Here’s what Time Inc. editor-in-chief John Huey had to say in a memo employees:

A fixture of Time Inc.’s business and investing Read More

By John Koblin 11/03/08 7:06pm

Empty Nast Syndrome: At Last Week’s Condé Nast Executive Meeting, Several Titles Were in Doubt

Early last week, the survival of several Condé Nast titles was in doubt.

According to sources familiar with the situation, when Condé Nast executives walked into a weekly meeting last Monday, October 27th at their headquarters at 4 Times Square, it was not clear whether chairman Si Newhouse and C.E.O. Chuck Townsend would decide Read More

By John Koblin 10/31/08 12:02pm

Radar Attracts Media’s Living Dead to Posthumous Party at Citrine

"I basically started Radar because I didn’t want to work at any other magazine," said Maer Roshan, the editor of the recently folded magazine. "And after six years, all of it came down to this."

Mr. Roshan was surveying his party, the night before Halloween, which had become a kind of Night of the Living Read More

By John Koblin 10/30/08 6:05pm

Empty Nast Syndrome: Portfolio Cuts 20 Percent of Its Staff; Reduces Publishing to 10x a Year

And bad news continues to leak out of 4 Times Square.

Media Mob has learned that Portfolio is cutting roughly 20 percent of its staff, and the monthly will now publish only 10 times a year.

Portfolio.com, the stand-alone Web site that has been unique for its original content and its Read More

By John Koblin 10/16/08 5:12pm

Why in the World is Dov Charney on the Cover of Portfolio?

At a moment when the market is crashing and we’re still trying to make sense of why the Dow goes up 900 points one day and down 700 another, when The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal cover the crisis on their front pages daily, and a once-in-a-lifetime story lands Read More

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