The New Yorker

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]

Tallying Up The Condé Nast Layoffs -- So Far - Posted October 22, 2009
Can you believe it's already been over two weeks since Condé Nast shuttered four titles, resulting in about 180 layoffs? In the past few weeks, more layoffs have come to almost every surviving Condé Nast title, and all of them (except maybe The New Yorker) will likely experience cuts before the end... [FishBowlNY]

Tallying Up The Condé Nast Layoffs -- So Far - Posted October 22, 2009
Can you believe it's already been over two weeks since Condé Nast shuttered four titles, resulting in about 180 layoffs? In the past few weeks, more layoffs have come to almost every surviving Condé Nast title, and all of them (except maybe The New Yorker) will likely experience cuts before the end... [FishBowlNY]

Tallying Up The Condé Nast Layoffs -- So Far - Posted October 22, 2009
Can you believe it's already been over two weeks since Condé Nast shuttered four titles, resulting in about 180 layoffs? In the past few weeks, more layoffs have come to almost every surviving Condé Nast title, and all of them (except maybe The New Yorker) will likely experience cuts before the end... [FishBowlNY]

Norman Mailer Colony Gala: A Night of Media, Literary Superstars - Posted October 21, 2009
It takes a lot to bring America's greatest living fiction, non-fiction, and journalism writers into one room, but if one woman could do, it's Tina Brown. The Daily Beast editor-in-chief hosted the first ever Norman Mailer Colony soiree at Cipriani last night, to celebrate the non-profit in which promising young writers... [FishBowlNY]

What's Left At Condé Nast? - Posted October 8, 2009
Condé Nast is one of the largest magazine publishers in the U.S., and the news earlier this week that it was shuttering four titles really didn't change that. Condé still has 18 consumer magazine titles, plus two trades -- WWD and Footwear News -- under its Fairchild Publications arm. But the... [FishBowlNY]

What's Left At Condé Nast? - Posted October 8, 2009
Condé Nast is one of the largest magazine publishers in the U.S., and the news earlier this week that it was shuttering four titles really didn't change that. Condé still has 18 consumer magazine titles, plus two trades -- WWD and Footwear News -- under its Fairchild Publications arm. But the... [FishBowlNY]

Learning To Take A Risk: Mag Editors Meet To Discuss The Move From Print To Digital - Posted October 6, 2009
The move from print to digital publications was the topic of the moment at mediabistro.com's annual event for women's magazine editors last night at ilili. (But really, isn't it the topic of the moment at every media event these days?) On hand to discuss were some female leaders in the digital field:... [FishBowlNY]

Nikki Finke Blasts New Yorker Profile - Posted October 5, 2009
Yesterday, The New Yorker published a lengthy profile of Deadline Hollywood Daily blogger Nikki Finke. The article -- which name-checks some of the biggest players in Hollywood, muses on Finke's possible sources, describes her home office and even gets the woman of the hour on the record -- is woven through with... [FishBowlNY]

Layoffs On The Horizon For Condé Nast? - Posted September 23, 2009
With McKinsey & Co. wrapping up its work at Condé Nast, the vultures are out. Severe budget cuts are a given, and layoffs are not too much of a stretch. The question is: which publications will be hardest hit? Last week, we reported that publishers were likely going to be asked... [FishBowlNY]

Layoffs On The Horizon For Condé Nast? - Posted September 23, 2009
With McKinsey & Co. wrapping up its work at Condé Nast, the vultures are out. Severe budget cuts are a given, and layoffs are not too much of a stretch. The question is: which publications will be hardest hit? Last week, we reported that publishers were likely going to be asked... [FishBowlNY]

Columnist Archerd Dies|CBS Tries Bribing Blogger With $20 Gift Card|What Do New Yorkers Say They Like To Read On The Subway?|Daily Beast Hires 24-Year-Old Editor|Fallon Ends Olbermann-Beck Beef - Posted September 9, 2009
USA TODAY: Daily Variety columnist Army Archerd has died at age 87. Deadline Hollywood: CBS tried to bribe Nikki Finke into writing about upcoming show "The Good Wife" with a $20 Amazon gift card. She said -- in so many words -- no thanks. New York Times: A survey of 8,000 readers has... [FishBowlNY]

Columnist Archerd Dies|CBS Tries Bribing Blogger With $20 Gift Card|What Do New Yorkers Say They Like To Read On The Subway?|Daily Beast Hires 24-Year-Old Editor|Fallon Ends Olbermann-Beck Beef - Posted September 9, 2009
USA TODAY: Daily Variety columnist Army Archerd has died at age 87. Deadline Hollywood: CBS tried to bribe Nikki Finke into writing about upcoming show "The Good Wife" with a $20 Amazon gift card. She said -- in so many words -- no thanks. New York Times: A survey of 8,000 readers has... [FishBowlNY]

ASME Launches Best Cover Of The Year Contest - Posted September 2, 2009
Yesterday was the first day to vote in the American Society of Magazine Editors' best cover of the year contest on Amazon.com. You can log on to vote for your favorite among the six finalists in ten categories: Best in Science, Technology & Nature; Best in Business; Sexiest Cover; Best in... [FishBowlNY]

ASME Launches Best Cover Of The Year Contest - Posted September 2, 2009
Yesterday was the first day to vote in the American Society of Magazine Editors' best cover of the year contest on Amazon.com. You can log on to vote for your favorite among the six finalists in ten categories: Best in Science, Technology & Nature; Best in Business; Sexiest Cover; Best in... [FishBowlNY]

Kennedy Family Starts Twitter Feed|Tribune Lenders Seek Zell Investigation|Saturday Evening Post Editor Emerson Dies|New Yorker Hires 26-Year-Old Managing Editor|Kate Gosselin Takes On "The View" - Posted August 27, 2009
Embedded video from CNN Video FishbowlDC: The Kennedy family has turned to Twitter and the Web to get word out about plans for Sen. Edward Kennedy's memorial. Check it out at @KennedyNews and TedKennedy.org. Wall Street Journal: Tribune's bondholders have called Sam Zell's $8.2 billion takeover of the company in 2007 a "fraudalent... [FishBowlNY]

Kennedy Family Starts Twitter Feed|Tribune Lenders Seek Zell Investigation|Saturday Evening Post Editor Emerson Dies|New Yorker Hires 26-Year-Old Managing Editor|Kate Gosselin Takes On "The View" - Posted August 27, 2009
Embedded video from CNN Video FishbowlDC: The Kennedy family has turned to Twitter and the Web to get word out about plans for Sen. Edward Kennedy's memorial. Check it out at @KennedyNews and TedKennedy.org. Wall Street Journal: Tribune's bondholders have called Sam Zell's $8.2 billion takeover of the company in 2007 a "fraudalent... [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]

Mourning The Loss Of Condé Nast's "Gilded Age" - Posted August 12, 2009
The New York Observer's John Koblin has gone deep within the depths of 4 Times Square to examine the changes McKinsey & Co. hath wrought at Condé Nast. After interviewing anonymous sources on the edit and business side of the company, as well as editors like Glamour's Cindi Leive and The New... [FishBowlNY]

Mourning The Loss Of Condé Nast's "Gilded Age" - Posted August 12, 2009
The New York Observer's John Koblin has gone deep within the depths of 4 Times Square to examine the changes McKinsey & Co. hath wrought at Condé Nast. After interviewing anonymous sources on the edit and business side of the company, as well as editors like Glamour's Cindi Leive and The New... [FishBowlNY]

Condé Starts To Purge - Posted August 5, 2009
The cost-cutting continues at Condé Nast. Several months ago, the magazine publisher laid off a slew of receptionists in an effort to slash costs, but some remained on the editorial floors at 4 Times Square. But those jobs that were salvaged then are now gone, after Condé let 13 receptionists go, the... [FishBowlNY]

Condé Starts To Purge - Posted August 5, 2009
The cost-cutting continues at Condé Nast. Several months ago, the magazine publisher laid off a slew of receptionists in an effort to slash costs, but some remained on the editorial floors at 4 Times Square. But those jobs that were salvaged then are now gone, after Condé let 13 receptionists go, the... [FishBowlNY]

International Center for Journalists Set To Honor New Yorker's Hersh - Posted June 24, 2009
The International Center for Journalists announced today that investigative reporter Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker will be awarded the group's prestigious Founders Award later this year. Hersh, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his story exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, will pick up his prize at the... [FishBowlNY]

International Center for Journalists Set To Honor New Yorker's Hersh - Posted June 24, 2009
The International Center for Journalists announced today that investigative reporter Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker will be awarded the group's prestigious Founders Award later this year. Hersh, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his story exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, will pick up his prize at the... [FishBowlNY]

44th Annual National Magazine Awards Announced - Posted March 19, 2009
ASME has announced this year's National Magazine Award Finalists. There is a bit of a last hurrah sense about this year's ceremony -- Best Life nominated for the Magazine Section award no longer exists, and New York recently pulled itself of out of the MPA altogether, and Newsweek, up for... [FishBowlNY]

Drew Schutte Named Senior Vice President Conde Nast Digital - Posted February 5, 2009
Conde Nast Digital, formerly known as CondeNet, doesn't appear to be wasting much time with its reshuffle. The company just announced it has named Drew Schutte senior vice president & chief revenue officer effective immediately. Schutte will be responsible for managing the newly consolidated digital sales team and working... [FishBowlNY]

Obama Continues to Save Print, Leap Tall Buildings, Etc. - Posted January 7, 2009
Maybe at the inauguration someone should give the man a cape. The sales numbers are in for various post-election magazine issues and perhaps not surprisingly they are good! According to the NYO The New Yorker's 'O' moon rising was the the second biggest in Remnick history and the... [FishBowlNY]

New York Times Freezes Wages, New Yorker on the Print Crisis - Posted December 15, 2008
This week The New Yorker gets aboard the collapse of the newspaper industry train:The real problem for newspapers, in other words, isn't the Internet; it's us. We want access to everything, we want it now, and we want it for free. That's a consumer's dream, but eventually it's going to collide... [FishBowlNY]

Time's Top Ten Magazine Covers 2008 - Posted December 9, 2008
It's that time of year: lists! Time has released their top ten magazine covers for 2008. The New Yorker takes top spot (no that New Yorker). Spitzer's 'Brain,' New York's March cover gets number two, and one of the many covers featuring Barack Obama but nothing else —... [FishBowlNY]

Conde Nast Cuts Website Launches but Still Hopeful About Magazines! - Posted December 4, 2008
Conde Nast: Always looking to the future! Agency Spy is saying that a spy has told them that Conde Nast has decided to put all its website launches on hold for the time being. Maybe not all that surprising considering not that long ago they decided to downsize Portfolio...in... [FishBowlNY]

Tina Brown on The Daily Beast: 'I Spend a Hell of a Lot of Time in My Pajamas' - Posted November 24, 2008
One sometimes wonders if Tina Brown's The Daily Beast would have had such an easy time defining itself if not for the sprawling presence of the Huffington Post — it seems Brown never misses the chance to subtly point the differences. This Sunday Brown was a guest on Howie Kurtz's... [FishBowlNY]

The New Yorker Sees the Future of Magazines and It Looks Digital - Posted November 6, 2008
Here's one of the things we love about The New Yorker: they are always looking ahead. To wit: their website was early out of the gate with content, they have a whole slew of their writers blogging, they even offer podcasts and video(!) (though we still think they should follow... [FishBowlNY]

Conde Nast Cuts Five Percent of All Staff, Men's Vogue in Jeopardy - Posted October 30, 2008
The long slippery slope to demise that the print world has been on for the last year or so just got a whole lot steeper and slippier this week. Whoosh! Today's bit of bad news comes from Conde Nast. The Observer is reporting that all the editors and... [FishBowlNY]

Sarah Palin on SNL: The Fallout - Posted October 20, 2008
Remember how Quentin Tarantino brought John Travolta's career back from the dead? That's sort of how it's starting feel in terms of SNL and Sarah Palin. To wit: Sarah Palin's, albeit rather dull appearance on SNL this weekend resulted in the show's highest ratings in 14 years. ... [FishBowlNY]

James Surowiecki Launches New Blog at The New Yorker - Posted October 17, 2008
Timing is everything! So, in light of the ever-deepening financial crisis, what better time for The New Yorker's resident business expert James Surowiecki to become the latest addition to the New Yorker's line up of blogs. Starting this week Surowiecki will be penning the Balance Sheet. And it... [FishBowlNY]

Esquire Endorses Obama - Posted October 10, 2008
Presidential endorsements are the new must-haves for magazines! This week The New Yorker used its entire Talk of the Town section for a wordy endorsement of Barack Obama (only their second ever). And now Esquire has announced its entire November issue will be devoted to endorsing. Says Esquire editor... [FishBowlNY]

Tina Brown's Daily Beast Arrives: 'Sensibility, Darling' - Posted October 6, 2008
Does this mean magazines are officially dead? Tina Brown, magazine editrix extraordinaire, has finally launched the long chattered about The Daily Beast (named after the paper in the Evelyn Waugh novel Scoop). What is the Beast? Well, for one, it's not another news aggregator, it "sifts, sorts, and... [FishBowlNY]

Sarah Palin and The New Yorker: 'I Can See Russia From My House' - Posted September 29, 2008
It remains to be seen whether Sarah Palin is beyond satire, though one could make a very good argument, particularly post the Katie Couric interiviews, that the Alaskan Governor actually needs no assistance to cast herself (or is it rear her head) in the worst possible light. For the time... [FishBowlNY]

Sarah Palin and The New Yorker: 'I Can See Russia From My House' - Posted September 29, 2008
It remains to be seen whether Sarah Palin is beyond satire, though one could make a very good argument, particularly post the Katie Couric interiviews, that the Alaskan Governor actually needs no assistance to cast herself (or is it rear her head) in the worst possible light. For the time... [FishBowlNY]

Shouldn't More People be Reading Harper's? - Posted September 19, 2008
Jon Friedman wants to know why Harper's isn't more widely read (notwithstanding Moe Tkacik). Is it because, as Friedman notes, "its covers have all the pizzazz of a form letter from the Internal Revenue Service." Certainly an apt observation, though Drudge isn't especially pretty to look at either and... [FishBowlNY]

Is Obama Playing Media Favorites? - Posted July 21, 2008
A line slipped in near the end of Mike Allen's Politico article about the media coverage of Barack Obama's overseas trip, is making some waves. Per Allen: "Among those for whom there was no room was Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent of The New Yorker. The campaign, which was furious... [FishBowlNY]

What is Funny?: Fallout from the New Yorker Obama Cover - Posted July 15, 2008
It's been 24 hours since The New Yorker's Barack Obama "Politics of Fear" cover hit newsstands, which means the print world has had time to weigh in. Also, FBNY readers!: 55% percent of the couple of hundred of you who voted found it more offensive than not, which may mirror the... [FishBowlNY]