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Lynna Lee LaGrange, KY, USA | Posted at 12:36pm on Thursday, December 31st, 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 19th, 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 8th, 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 16th, 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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Allison Washington, D.C. | Posted at 9:07am on Thursday, October 8th, 2009 |
I think the decision by Conde Nast to shutter Gourmet magazine was a very poor one indeed. I found Gourmet to be one of the most creative and inspiring magazines I'd come across and I looked forward to its arrival in my mailbox every month. Please do not think, Conde Nast, that I will now switch over to Bon Appetit, or buy any Conde Nast publications in the future. You have lost one customer for good.
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Eileen Sypher Connecticut | Posted at 6:12am on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 |
My husband woke me this morning with the shattering news that you are closing Gourmet magazine. Gourmet is a staple of our culture and an inspiration to all who cook for their families and guests. I use it the way I use no cookbook. NO OTHER MAGAZINE matches it. If you think some of us will move over to Bon Appetit, I think you are very mistaken. I'll go to Food and Wine--unless you reconsider this very ill-advised decision.
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Media Owners editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 4:08pm on Monday, October 5th, 2009 |
Condé Nast announced on October 5, 2009 that it will close four magazines -- Gourmet, Cookie, Elegant Bride and Modern Bride.
The closure of Gourmet magazine, which has been published since 1941, is the biggest surprise. Of the others, Cookie magazine was launched in 2005, and the two bridal magazines are smaller than Brides magazine, which is also owned by Conde Nast.
Conde Nast CEO Charles H. Townsend said the company made the decision because the magazines were losing money. He also said that none of the 180 employees of the magazines, including Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl, are expected to stay with the company.
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Todd Timmcke Edmonds, WA | Posted at 12:08pm on Monday, October 5th, 2009 |
Gourmet is the best food magazine out there. Please reconsider closing it. Wait it out. You will only be losing loyal customers forever. When will customer satisfaction be more important than the bottom line?
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Kevin Warr San Francisco, CA | Posted at 11:00am on Monday, October 5th, 2009 |
Keep Gourmet Magazine! Gourmet is the premiere cooking and food magazine in the US and it would be a shame to loose it, after its many, many years of bringing people joy. Please don't kill it!
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Judith Stanton Dewitt, NY | Posted at 10:24am on Monday, October 5th, 2009 |
KEEP GOURMET MAGAZINE! I have just read that Conde Nast is planning to end publication of Gourmet, and I am writing to protest this decision. Ruth Reichl has made Gourmet into a great publication, bringing us wonderful recipes and thought-provoking ideas about food and food-related issues. I hope you will reconsider this decision.
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Julie Chicago | Posted at 12:10pm on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 |
I just learned that 40 million trees are cut down each year, just for magazines. That is a tree every second! I was also disappointed that Conde Nast chooses not to print many of it's publications on recycled paper even though it is being marketed as 'green'. Very sad. I urge you to consider the huge devastation this has on the planet and move toward greener practices.
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Media Owners editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:32am on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 |
Conde Nast is in serious trouble, the New York Post reported on August 5, 2009:
"Conde Nast is reeling from what is expected to be a loss of 5,000 ad pages this year, translating into a revenue shortfall of between $275 million and $350 million -- and very likely pushing the publishing giant into the red.
After Condé Nast's ad-page tally last year fell 10.5 percent to 34,966 from the previous year, according to Media Industry Newsletter, the company behind mags like Vogue and Vanity Fair is expected to see the ad-page count fall more than 20 percent this year."
The full story:
www.nypost.com/seven/08052009/business/sea_of_red_at_cond__233__183027.htm
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LaFonda Roberson Lewisville, TX (United | Posted at 9:54am on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 |
This not an ordinary comment or concern. I am a single mother of three and i am writing out to who ever will listen. I am willing to work hard and willing to do whatever it takes to succeed in life and to give my children the best that i can ever give them. I have been through some struggles and hard times, i grew up in an abusive home, both parents were on crack. i even had to leave home at an early age, sexually assaulted. But yet i put myself through high school and graduated within the top 5 percent of my class, then left a month after graduating from high school for the United States Army, had my first child in the military. Was abused in my relationship with now all three of my children’s father. In 2005 when i had an 8 wk old and a two year old my son at the age of 4 was diagnosed with wilms tumor (cancer) nearly died and my house burned. I said all that to say through it all i never gave up, because three months into my sons chemotherapy i managed to go to college and raise three children up till now and my son is doing great and i just graduated from college November 17, 2008 with nothing less than a B with a gpa of 3.6 and now working for JPM Chase. I am very grateful but i want more. I hunger to do more for my children because it is hard and it still only barely pays the bills. I want to work with people and my target goal is to travel the world and speak out to young adults and children. I want to eventually have a talk show. I am willing to work hard and reach out to whoever will listen. I will even do volunteer work until God opens the door that blesses me and my babies financially. If you have any suggestions or leads please let me know. My number is 469-877-9882 or 972-221-7454. My address is 915 Ramblewood Drive, Lewisville, TX, 75067. May God Bless You All. And i do love listening to all of you in the mornings.
My website is: www.lafondaroberson.com
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Eric Kallgren Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:09pm on Monday, January 5th, 2009 |
On January 4, 2008, the New York Times reported that ad page sales have tanked for Conde Nast and the magazine publishing business generally:
"It was an ugly January not just for Allure, but also for Condé Nast magazines in general.
January issues tend to be thin even in good years, and most magazines posted a decline in ad pages. But the average decline across all monthly magazines was only 17 percent, and most Condé Nast magazines fared much worse, according to analysis of Media Industry Newsletter data.
Wired, which is usually thick with consumer electronics ads, was the worst hit, down 47 percent from a year ago to 43.6 ad pages. Architectural Digest fell 46 percent, to 63.2, from 116.8. Vogue and Lucky were both down about 44 percent."
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Eric Kallgren Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:52pm on Friday, November 14th, 2008 |
Writing in The Big Money web site on November 13, 2008, from the article "Glossed Over: Why can't magazines get the Web?," Lesley M. M. Blume says that Conde Nast has an "increasingly tortured relationship with the Internet."
"This week, the company laid off more than three dozen online staffers from its CondeNet division, which oversees its popular "destination" Web sites like Epicurious.com and Style.com (as opposed to the online versions of the company's print magazines). This follows the decision two weeks ago to cut back the print version of Portfolio to 10 times a year, fire most of the staff of Portfolio.com, and curtail most of the site's original content.
According to one report, a Portfolio.com staffer who asked a company executive why the Web site was being penalized for the magazine's woes was told that Conde Nast is first and foremost a magazine company.
"Any rational person would say that's crazy," says a former Conde Nast editor who, like every former or current Conde Nast employee consulted for this article, insisted on anonymity. "To say that we're just a magazine company in this day and age is like saying that we're a buggy company."
What is behind Condé Nast's bellicose approach to the Web? Other traditional media outlets properly regard the Internet as both destroyer and savior and have gone into overdrive to translate themselves into online brands. By axing its online properties, Conde Nast is revealing its apparent online strategy: looking the other way while Jaws devours the back of your boat."
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D. Harris Redding, CA | Posted at 5:27pm on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 |
This type of publication only reinforces stereotypes for negative, fearful generating attitudes toward anything that is different from what is familiar with us. Who is the real owner of this type of propaganda?
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R. Fasano Seattle, WA, USA | Posted at 11:53am on Monday, July 14th, 2008 |
The July 21 cover. The New Yorker perpetuates the misinformation and outright lies of the Obama's radical Muslim connections. Garbage!
Whoever made the decision to run with this impression presentation must certainly be suspect of right-wing connections, or smoking someting.
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Aminah Yaquin Carroll Gallipolis Ferry, WV (fo | Posted at 10:19am on Monday, July 14th, 2008 |
I second that, Susan Berg. And as a progressive muslim and Obama supporter i am disheartened and saddened too.
David Remnick: what were you thinking?
dismal. humorless, electioneering for Obama's opponents
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kathy berg San Francisco Bay Area | Posted at 9:26am on Monday, July 14th, 2008 |
After seeing the cover of the New Yorker for July 21, 2008, I will never buy another Conde Nast publication. It was totally tasteless.
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praying for the zealots NY | Posted at 10:02am on Monday, October 8th, 2007 |
impression of myself: "blah blah blah"
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