Yesterday, the New York Post‘s Keith Kelly reported that Andrea Kaplan, a longtime Condé Nast publicist, was being laid off along with a small handful of others from the magazine publisher’s PR group.
Kaplan, who was once the head of PR for Condé Nast, has had an unusual career at the company.
In 1998, Read More
Mariann Florio, widow of former Condé Nast C.E.O. Steve Florio, is reportedly in a dispute with the company over payouts following her husband’s death last December. [P6]
Gossip Girl had a casting call in Southampton this past weekend and no one showed up. [Daiyl Intel]
Jay-Z dined with Governor Paterson Read More
Ron Galotti, the old Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair publisher, was speaking on the phone from his home in the woods of eastern Vermont.
“I have the most spectacular candles sitting on my fireplace right now. We put them out every Christmas and they are just magnificent. I’m going to holler at my wife Read More
Steven Florio, former C.E.O. and president of Conde Nast, died yesterday after a heart attack. He was 58.
Vogue editor Anna Wintour described the Conde Nast landscape under Florio’s reign like this to WWD: "It was a smaller world. It was much less involved in the Internet. The company wasn’t as large as it 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
On July 9, The New Yorker received, via fax, “what looked like a press release from Newsweek.com” announcing the death of the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez. It was a hoax. It nearly worked, sending New Yorker staff members into a flurry of phone calls.
“It was Friday, when the magazine closes,” said Read More
With the ink on Tina Brown’s recent multimedia production deal with Miramax Films barely dry, The New York Times decided to review its policies for dealing with movie studios that seek to option the rights to Times stories. According to a July 21 staff memo from the desk of associate managing editor William Schmidt, the Read More
With Tina Brown’s contract as editor of The New Yorker set to expire on July 1, Condé Nast president Steven Florio is supposed to be working hard to keep her happy. Ms. Brown is preparing to renegotiate her contract with Mr. Florio’s boss, Advance Publications chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr., and she has no shortage of Read More
