By Nitasha Tiku 8:22pm

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Condé Nast Is Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Not long after Scott Dadich was appointed executive editor of digital magazine development for all of Condé Nast, “the tops of the mastheads,” as the senior editorial staffs are called, filed into the company’s fourth-floor lecture hall for a series of meetings. Condé’s new iPad king was holding court.

This wasn’t the first time the tastemakers of 4 Times Square had met Mr. Dadich. He’d been shopping “that Wired thing” around the company since it debuted in iTunes’ App Store in May 2010 to considerable fanfare and a flurry of downloads.

But this time, Mr. Dadich faced a few more sets of crossed arms. Read More

By John Koblin 10/20/09 11:58pm

The Si Way

Just eight years after Si Newhouse spent tens of millions to move Condé Nast into 4 Times Square, he was ready to move out. 

In the first week of October 2007, Mr. Newhouse signed a deal with the real estate developer Douglas Durst to build a new tower for his company over a Read More

By John Koblin 10/16/09 6:12pm

Ruthie in Wonderland! Ruth Reichl Reflects on Conde Nast

On a very chilly, rainy Thursday night, Ruth Reichl was hugging Dianne Weist on the third floor of the Time Warner Center, at the back of the restaurant A Voce. While embracing, Ms. Weist was removing a bulky winter jacket and a big red scarf. A handler asked Ms. Weist if she was interested in 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 John Koblin 7/21/08 4:43am

Success, and Succession, at Conde Nast

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.

  • Tom Wallace, editorial director, Condé Nast: “You’re going to have to go a long way on the Internet to compete with the way we Read More