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Comments to date: 37. This is page 1 of 2.  | Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 1:47pm on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 | -- February 7, 2011 -- Condé Nast Digital head Sarah Chubb is leaving her position after 20 years with the organization. A successor is expected to be named in the coming weeks.
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 1:56pm on Monday, January 31, 2011 | A Wolf in the Kitchen
-- On January 30, 2011, Mediaweek Magazine reported:
"There’s not a print publisher out there who isn’t grappling with the question of how digital media can save their ailing business. Not the least is Condé Nast, which has very publicly recognized that it needs to shift its business away from an overwhelming reliance on print advertising revenue.
At this critical juncture, the company is putting a lot of faith in Michael J. Wolf, a longtime media consultant with almost no experience in technology development."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:28am on Monday, January 17, 2011 | Condé/Hearst Tale of the Tape
-- On January 16, 2011, Mediaweek Magazine reported:
"Hearst Corporation has long had to live in Condé Nast’s shadow, never quite as big—or as prestigious—as its rival. But now, as Adweek reported first, Hearst is nearing a deal to buy Lagardère’s international magazine business, including U.S. arm Hachette Filipacchi Media (Elle, Elle Decor, Woman’s Day) and Elle’s 43 editions around the world. Hearst would emerge, at least temporarily, with the No. 2 position in market share, surpassing Condé Nast and coming just behind No. 1 Time Inc., per Publishers Information Bureau. The biggest competition may come in the hotly contested categories of fashion and shelter where Hachette would give Hearst a leg up on Condé Nast. Here’s how the two will stack up in key areas."
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Mondo Times editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:16am on Thursday, December 23, 2010 | Condé Nast Publications Get News of Structural Changes
-- PR to report to editorial, Women's Wear Daily (WWD) reported on December 23, 2010:
"On a quiet Wednesday before the holiday break, an e-mail was sent to Condé Nast publishers and editors, revealing a few structural changes to the company’s public relations department. P.r. directors and assistants will now report to editors and publishers at respective titles, instead of resident company voice and troubleshooter Maurie Perl, senior vice president corporate communications and chief communications officer. Perl will continue to be the company’s chief spokeswoman and will be available to assist brands when needed. But the change reflects the company’s new aim of allowing each publication to manage its own business."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:22am on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 | Condé Nast Gets Ready to Go Shopping, Adds $500 Million and an Ex-Yahoo
-- From an article posted on the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital blog on December 13, 2010:
"Anyone have anything they want to sell to Condé Nast? The publisher is officially in shopping mode: It has hired an M&A guy and raised $500 million in cash to get him started.
Condé Nast’s parent company, Advance Publications, Inc., announced this morning that it has brought on Andrew Siegel, who spent the past year trying to get deals done for Yahoo, to run strategy and corporate development.
And Advance has rounded up $500 million for Siegel, by selling a chunk of preferred stock it owns in cable network Discovery Communications Inc.."
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Salvadora Lorelli New York city, ny | Posted at 3:35pm on Thursday, November 4, 2010 | New artist, Slavadora Lorelli on the upper east side is exhibiting nov 27 at three new shops. A cornucopia of 30 images.
a hot story & an electric night.
e mail: mplorelli12@mac.com
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:39am on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 | Reddit Head Leaves Conde Nast for Hipmunk
-- CNET reported on November 1, 2010:
"Christopher Slowe, a five-year veteran of Reddit who has been in charge of the Conde Nast-owned social news site since the departure of its founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian last year, announced on Monday that he's leaving his post. He'll be joining Hipmunk, the travel search site that Huffman launched a few months ago and which brought Ohanian on board in September."
The full story:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20021358-36.html
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:16am on Monday, November 1, 2010 | -- October 29, 2010 -- William Wackermann is now executive vice president and publishing director at Condé Nast Publications. He was previously senior vice president and publishing director there.
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:05am on Monday, November 1, 2010 | -- November 1, 2010 -- Carol Smith has left Condé Nast, saying only, "The opportunity turned out not to be what either Condé Nast or I expected." She had been publisher of Bon Appétit and Gourmet magazines. William Wackermann will assume her duties.
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Mondo Times editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:03am on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | Conde Nast Magazines Can Finally Sell Their Own Websites
-- Advertising Age reported on October 26, 2010:
"Conde Nast, the publisher of magazines from Vogue to The New Yorker, is integrating many of the digital operations that had been handled by the Conde Nast Digital division since 2009 and by CondeNet for many years before that.
Ad sales for websites attached to individual magazines will now be handled by the magazines themselves instead of Conde Nast Digital, the company said. And the Conde Nast Media Group lead by Conde CMO Lou Cona will take over responsibility for ad sales across sites.
Drew Schutte, senior VP and chief revenue officer at Conde Nast Digital, was named exec VP and chief integration officer at Conde Nast Media Group, reporting to Mr. Cona. Josh Stinchcomb, publisher for the internet sales group, was named VP of digital sales at Conde Nast, reporting to Mr. Cona.
Conde Nast Digital will continue to exist but in diminished form, focusing on corporate strategies for digital growth and the company's "emerging" digital businesses, including Brides.com, Epicurious, the Gourmet Live iPad app and Reddit. It will also retain editorial oversight at Wired.com. Sarah Chubb, the president of Conde Nast Digital and CondeNet before it, continues in that role."
The full story:
http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=146712
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:10am on Thursday, October 7, 2010 | Condé Nast's Bright Named Chief Administrative Officer
-- Mediaweek Magazine reported on October 6, 2010:
"Condé Nast continues to reorganize, moving its longtime, powerful HR chief into a new role that will include oversight for PR.
Jill Bright, Condé Nast’s head of HR since 1996, was named chief administrative officer, CEO Chuck Townsend and recently named president Bob Sauerberg announced in an internal memo to employees Oct. 6.
Condé Nast has made a number of high-level changes in the past few months as it tries to shift to a more consumer revenue-driven business following a grueling ad recession, and the Bright move was perceived by insiders as part of a continued beefing up of the corporate side. That shift follows major cost cuts last year after a consulting stint by McKinsey, which still plays a role there.
“The center of gravity’s totally shifted from the brands to corporate,” said one. “They’re really strengthening the bench at the top.”
The full story:
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/magazines-newspapers/e3ie6b00e94a5963b096feeafbe56089208
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:37am on Monday, September 27, 2010 | Condé Nast Creates Award, Perk for Business-Savvy Editors
-- Mediaweek Magazine reported on September 27, 2010:
"Historically, Condé Nast editors have worked in a rarified world where they were encouraged to put out the best quality magazines possible, without regard to costs.
Now come new signs that editors are being encouraged to adopt a business mind-set.
Condé Nast has created a new award for the publisher and editor who come up with the best money-making business for the company, the winner in this case getting credits for travel. Traditionally, the company’s awards have been reserved for the sales side.
And in what would be another first, the purveyor of luxury brands like Vogue and Vanity Fair is also considering having editors speak about their brands at the next publishers' meeting, periodic gatherings that historically have been sales-side affairs.
“The editors are becoming part of the conversation,” one publishing exec there said."
The full story:
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/media-agencies-research/e3i59a76af79355311834fc4b0a6bb6cc0a
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 1:16pm on Thursday, September 16, 2010 | Condé Nast Chief: Up to 40% of Sales Could Be on iPad
-- The Guardian reported on September 15, 2010:
"Nicholas Coleridge, the managing director of Condé Nast UK, has predicted that in the future as many as 40% of the publisher's sales will come from apps for Apple's iPad and similar devices.
Coleridge, addressing about 300 senior executives, journalists, agencies and advertisers on the publisher's digital strategy today, also said Condé Nast's UK operation planned to launch its first iPad apps within the next month for Wired and Vogue magazines.
The iPad apps will be launched for the December issues of Wired and Vogue magazines, which are published in November, with the pricing set to be £3.99 each. This is close to the cover price of each title: Wired sells for £4 and Vogue £4.10.
Coleridge said he believed that 15 years from now Condé Nast, which also publishes titles including GQ, Vanity Fair and Glamour, expected 30% to 40% of consumers of its titles to pay to read them on devices such as the iPad.
"I would expect 70% of our sales to come from print and 30%, or even 40%, to come from products such as the iPad," he said."
The full story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/15/conde-nast-ipad
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 1:22pm on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | -- August 25, 2010 -- Monica Ray is now executive vice president of consumer marketing at Condé Nast, effective September 20. She was previously senior vice president of corporate digital development at Time Inc.
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CCF New York | Posted at 3:21pm on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 | I didn't order Architectural Digest but, out of the blue I began receiving it at work. I gave it away or threw it away but, low and behold, I received a bill. Since I have no obligation to pay for what I did not order, I ignored it and now you have the nerve to bill the university where I am employed for an Architectural Digest subscription I never ordered. How disgustingly vile is that? I will never, ever, do business of any kind, for any Conde Nast magazine.
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Jean Butler Matawan, NJ | Posted at 2:26pm on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | Love Vanity Fair and finally committed to a yearly subscription due to 2 single articles I'd read from a back issue. Your web site needs serious surgery, as it is outdated in every way. The sub offer was $12. After my Visa# was entered it was $15. No biggy-but diappointing. Suggests, like an older woman, you simply "are letting yourself go". PS I'm an older/young woman of 55. I'm reading voracious and am tempted from 1000 choices always. I am guessing there's a war between old and young at every level of your Corp. and it is hurting everyone. Just give readers good content and an easier way to respond to editors. Currently, it appears to me you don't want feedback. I've been on your site for an hour at Vanity Fair. I'll never waste that time again. I was schooled in Sociology and Literature and it's your loss not mine if I cancel my subsciption. Most people don't have time to waste. We work. (I'm on a sick day writing this to you.) Be wise and get a better web designer or something. I really don't like yours. Be advised that 5 years ago I decided in one day to buy a car due to the website alone. That was $27K versus a $15.00 annual subscription. I'm still trying to find a way to email or contact James Wolcott whose article made my decision to subscribe to Vanity Fair. Hope you hear me, no malice intended. Good Luck in hanging on! A new subscriber. And please quit asking me to create a PIN for your web. I have important PINS for work, banking, family, professional sites to remember. Your're a magazine. Leave me alone with trying to suck me in with yet another pin. It's a turn-off and often I just "Exit" X ...and you lose. "A word to the wise is sufficient". J. Butler
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Lynna Lee LaGrange, KY, USA | Posted at 12:36pm on Thursday, December 31, 2009 | Please remove my name from all of your magazine mailing lists. Someone, sold someone, sold someone a mailing list with my name on it and I do not want to receive any more trashy mags"FREE". If I choose to subscribe to any of the many offers, "UGH", then I will touch base with you directly and not be embarrassed but free publications, selling sex and everything else under the sun. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
L. L.
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Media Owners editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:52pm on Thursday, November 19, 2009 | Conde Nast magazines' ad pages dropped sharply in 2009, the New York Times reported on November 11, 2009:
"Condé Nast’s ad-page numbers are in for its 2009 issues, helping shed light on why the company made sharp cuts this fall.
The company’s ad pages at monthly magazines have declined by almost a third since last year, with the company losing 8,359 ad pages this year, according to estimates it released Wednesday. Condé Nast began cost-cutting this fall, closing Gourmet, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Cookie.
The worst-hit magazines for the year were Architectural Digest, where ad pages fell 49.9 percent; W, where ad pages fell 46 percent; and Condé Nast Traveler, where pages fell 41.1 percent. Details and Wired both fell about 39 percent."
The full story:
www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/business/media/12mag.html
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Media Owners editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:53pm on Sunday, November 8, 2009 | Conde Nast has hired a "crisis intervention expert," the New York Post reported on November 6, 2009:
"Conde Nast CEO Charles Townsend and Chairman S.I. Newhouse, Jr. are turning to Washington, DC-based crisis manager and media coach Michael Sheehan to help with PR.
Sheehan has coached Democratic presidential candidates from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama. He handled AIG during its near-death experience and JP Morgan in its acquisition of Chase.
A source said that Newhouse and Townsend were reluctant to make the hire, but did so under prodding from Lucky publisher Gina Sanders, who used Sheehan when she was launching Teen Vogue.
Sanders and others noted that morale at Condé has hit an all-time low. This year it has folded an unprecedented six magazines, including Gourmet and Cookie, and fired at least 460 employees. Its glitzy image has also taken a drubbing on Madison Avenue."
The full story:
www.nypost.com/p/news/business/conde_nast_hires_crisis_intervention_vidC9EqwxH7SDfX7Ym9k5L
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Missy Greenwich, CT. | Posted at 9:22am on Friday, October 16, 2009 | A sad mistake to disconitnue Gourmet. I have been reading the magazine for over 20 years. It has bought me many hours of reading and cooking enjoyment. I hope you will reconsider.
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