Conde Nast Publications

LaFonda Roberson    Lewisville, TX (United

Posted at 9:54am on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

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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."

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."

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?

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.

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

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.

praying for the zealots    NY

Posted at 10:02am on Monday, October 8th, 2007

impression of myself: "blah blah blah"

praying for the zealots    NY

Posted at 6:23pm on Thursday, April 12th, 2007

zionist cosmopolitan propaganda rags used to disseminate an unnatural view of beauty.