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Condé Nast Gets Crisis Management Help - Posted 2 days, 4 hours ago
It's no surprise that Condé Nast has been getting a lot of bad press recently in the wake of heavy staff cuts and four magazine closures.
But, according to reports, it looks like Si Newhouse is taking the advice of Lucky publisher Gina Sanders and getting some help from an expert:... [FishBowlNY]
Newhouse Loses Less Than Expected, But Not From Condé - Posted 3 days ago
Si Newhouse made out better than expected during a Sotheby's auction last night. The item he was selling off -- a sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti entitled "L'Homme Qui Chavire" (pictured left) -- only fell $2.8 million short of what he paid for it.
And while that might seem like... [FishBowlNY]
Condé Nast Retreads On Familiar Obama Territory To Sell Copies - Posted October 28, 2009
A Michelle Obama Glamour cover for December? We know that coming up with new and original content for women's magazines that doesn't feel old hat is hard, but something about Condé Nast's special recognition award of Michelle Obama in their "Women Of The Year" issue feels a little bit like Barack... [FishBowlNY]
Condé Nast Retreads On Familiar Obama Territory To Sell Copies - Posted October 28, 2009
A Michelle Obama Glamour cover for December? We know that coming up with new and original content for women's magazines that doesn't feel old hat is hard, but something about Condé Nast's special recognition award of Michelle Obama in their "Women Of The Year" issue feels a little bit like Barack... [FishBowlNY]
Joanne Lipman: A New Prototype of Feminism in Journalism? - Posted October 26, 2009
One year ago, Portfolio was on its last legs. After the market saw the biggest plummet in decades, the cover of the business magazine had American Apparel founder Dov Charney on the cover: A misstep for the magazines that some say it never recovered from. The waiting game of Portfolio's cut... [FishBowlNY]
Joanne Lipman: A New Prototype of Feminism in Journalism? - Posted October 26, 2009
One year ago, Portfolio was on its last legs. After the market saw the biggest plummet in decades, the cover of the business magazine had American Apparel founder Dov Charney on the cover: A misstep for the magazines that some say it never recovered from. The waiting game of Portfolio's cut... [FishBowlNY]
Struggling Condé Nast Focuses On Web Sales - Posted October 22, 2009
Condé Nast has been navigating a dark and stormy terrain in the past several weeks with the closing of four magazines, the layoffs of hundreds of employees, and no end in sight for the once-venerable Si Newhouse-led powerhouse.
But in between all the bad news, the company's digital arm, Condé Nast Digital,... [FishBowlNY]
Struggling Condé Nast Focuses On Web Sales - Posted October 22, 2009
Condé Nast has been navigating a dark and stormy terrain in the past several weeks with the closing of four magazines, the layoffs of hundreds of employees, and no end in sight for the once-venerable Si Newhouse-led powerhouse.
But in between all the bad news, the company's digital arm, Condé Nast Digital,... [FishBowlNY]
McKinsey Wraps Up At Condé Nast - Posted September 9, 2009
Today we have another dispatch about McKinsey's work at Condé Nast from The New York Observer's John Koblin.
Koblin, who has been reporting on McKinsey's work throughout the summer, reports that the consulting company is ready to wrap up its investigation of the state of Condé's business and will present their findings... [FishBowlNY]
McKinsey Wraps Up At Condé Nast - Posted September 9, 2009
Today we have another dispatch about McKinsey's work at Condé Nast from The New York Observer's John Koblin.
Koblin, who has been reporting on McKinsey's work throughout the summer, reports that the consulting company is ready to wrap up its investigation of the state of Condé's business and will present their findings... [FishBowlNY]
First On FBNY: More Cuts At Condé? (With Updates) - Posted August 13, 2009
A FishbowlNY tipster tells us there were layoffs at The New Yorker yesterday, the same day the New York Observer featured a story hinting that the magazine would be spared from the Condé Nast cuts.
"Two well-placed sources said that Condé Nast's chairman, Si Newhouse, reached out to [New Yorker editor David]... [FishBowlNY]
More Trouble At Condé: September Ad Pages Drop - Posted July 21, 2009
We just can't escape the Condé Nast news today. The New York Observer is reporting that the Si Newhouse-run magazine publishing house saw September ad pages decline by 37 percent company-wide, a drop of 1,680 pages. This is depressing news because September is typically the month to top all other months... [FishBowlNY]
More Trouble At Condé: September Ad Pages Drop - Posted July 21, 2009
We just can't escape the Condé Nast news today. The New York Observer is reporting that the Si Newhouse-run magazine publishing house saw September ad pages decline by 37 percent company-wide, a drop of 1,680 pages. This is depressing news because September is typically the month to top all other months... [FishBowlNY]
Author & Columnist Michael M. Thomas Talks Condé Nast On The Menu: "There Are Problems That You Can't Consult Your Way Out Of" - Posted July 21, 2009
Today on the media- bistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, hosts Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven were joined by novelist and newspaper columnist Michael M. Thomas to talk the morning's media headlines.
The first topic tackled was the news that magazine publisher Condé Nast had hired consulting company McKinsey... [FishBowlNY]
With Froelich On The Way Out, Is Page Six Slipping Up? - Posted July 14, 2009
This morning, we were directed to a fairly standard item on the New York Post's Page Six gossip page about Condé Nast chief Si Newhouse.
"Si Newhouse knows how to hold his liquor, according to Graydon Carter," Page Six said, referring to an article published Sunday in the British pub The Observer.... [FishBowlNY]
Swine Flu Hits Conde Nast As Newhouse Profile Hits Newsstands - Posted June 1, 2009
This morning, a warning went out to all of Conde Nast's New York employees that an employee on the 12th floor of the company's 4 Times Square headquarters had tested positive for swine flu. (If you're hip to Conde HQ you know that floor is where Vogue is housed.)
But since the... [FishBowlNY]
Newspapers, Bloat Behind Portfolio's Demise? - Posted April 29, 2009
Rumors of problems at Portfolio began long before the Conde Nast business magazine folded Monday. Media watchers have been obsessively analyzing Portfolio's every move since the title launched in April 2007 and much of the criticism has focused on editor-in-chief Joanne Lipman. Observers say Lipman, who came to Portfolio by way... [FishBowlNY]
Conde Taps Time Exec to Head Parade - Posted April 16, 2009
Minonline is reporting that Conde head Si Newhouse has tapped former Time Inc. executive Jack Haire.
From min: Haire's 1978-2006 Time Inc. career included 1993-1998 and 1998-2005 stints as Time publisher and Fortune/Money Group president, respectively, and he was Time Inc. executive vp/corporate sales when he left the company in January 2006... [FishBowlNY]
Lunch: Carl Bernstein: Bush 'Straight Talk' Book Would Sell - Posted December 3, 2008
DIANE CLEHANE
Reports of the death of the power lunch are, by the looks of things at Michael's today, most definitely premature. It will be a sure sign of the apocalypse when the regulars at 55th & Fifth stop showing up to cook up their next big move over burgers and... [FishBowlNY]
Wintour Out At Vogue: Don't Think So, Says Newhouse - Posted December 2, 2008
We here at FBLA don't want to tread on blogger territory too harshly, but we only bring up Gawker's "scoop" on Anna Wintour's departure from Vogue as good example of listening to the wrong people -- and then reporting it.
When Wintour herself declines any comment and Conde Nast Chairman S.I. Newhouse... [FishBowlLA]
When in Doubt, Put Them in Jodhpurs and Riding Boots - Posted July 29, 2008
It may still be July, but Vanity Fair is already hyping its September style issue, featuring Annie Leibovitz's photograph of French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy on the cover (pictured above) and a profile by Maureen Orth inside (asked to comment on Bruni, Jean-Paul Gaultier says, "She is like the heroine of... [UnBeige]
Si Newhouse Has Eye for Kerning - Posted July 23, 2008
In case you're boycotting the business section to stave off recession depression, we wanted to relay the glad tidings that led off Richard Pérez-Peña's recent New York Times profile of Condé Nast chairman Samuel I. "Si" Newhouse (pictured at right, pixellated by Lacie Argyle into hundreds of tiny magazine covers): the... [UnBeige]
Barry Diller: "Editorship Is Going To Emerge As the Real Value-Add" - Posted January 30, 2008
IAC chairman Barry Diller introduces Tina Brown at today's MPA/ASME awards
Though we snuck in sometime between the salad and the sea bass at today's Magazine Lifetime Achievement Awards Luncheon at Manhattan's Gotham Hall, we still managed to squeeze in some QT with the F.O.T's* and the S.O.B's* at today's Magazine Publishers... [FishBowlNY]




