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Hometrosexual Ariel Foxman Made Editor of ‘In Style’
GOD, is there anything that guy DOESN'T get?
Posted 09/17/08 in Daily Intel : Glossy People
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Stevie Cohen Could End Up in a Pickle
No, not in the Damian Hirst sense, though that would be amazing: The art-loving SAC Capital Management CEO could have some problems with the SEC if he's not careful. Plus! An ex–Bear CEO jumps ship at JPMorgan, Natalie Portman's apartment goes on the block, and Condé Nast has a green issue, in our daily rundown of industry news.
Posted 07/31/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Trou-Dropping Guantanamo Lawyer Leaves Firm
Plus, the latest on Giuliani Partners, S.I. Newhouse, and Citigroup in our daily industry roundup.
Posted 07/21/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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JPMorgan Chase Profits Fall 53 Percent
But they did better than analysts predicted. That, plus the latest on Hamptons real-estate prices, Condé Nast's upper echelons, and the "You go girl!" spinner, in our daily industry roundup.
Posted 07/17/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Has ‘Us Weekly’ Peaked?
Keith Kelly reports that the celebrity magazine had trouble meeting its rate base for the first time in eight years.
Posted 07/11/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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In China’s New York, Twin Towers Still Standing
Plus the latest from the Federal Reserve, Skadden, Condé Nast, and Warren Buffett, in today's industry report.
Posted 07/08/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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They Waterboarded Christopher Hitchens
Finally, right? Plus, David Brooks thinks Goldman Sachs may be on the cusp of a coup, and the "summer of legal vindication" kicks off in our hump-day roundup of media, finance, law, and real-estate news.
Posted 07/02/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Jann Wenner Shopping ‘Us Weekly’ to Condé Nast for $750 Million
Plus, the latest with UBS, Bonnie Fuller, and 15 Central Park West, in our daily industry roundup.
Posted 06/30/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Ben Affleck to Play a Reporter … in Real Life
The actor-vist will report from eastern Congo for 'Nightline'; and other media, law, finance, and real-estate news.
Posted 06/27/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Harry Potter and the Lean, Mean, Skorcher Butt Machine
Daniel Radcliffe is spotted toning up his bum for 'Equus,' Mary J. Blige helps a stranger buy a dress, and Adam Duritz takes up with a new actress, all in our daily distillation of the city's gossip columns.
Posted 06/17/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Fox News Sicced Bill O'Reilly on NBC's Punk Ass
Thin-skinned media bigwigs trade insults, Microsoft and Yahoo continue to make eyes at each other across the boardroom table, and a mysterious, rich felon moves into the Plaza … all in today's roundup of media, finance, law and real-estate news.
Posted 05/19/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Right Now, Sean Avery Is Getting Anna Wintour Starbucks
The injured Ranger begins his tour of duty at 'Vogue,' Carl Icahn's battle with Yahoo heats up, and Donald Trump is in another fight … in today's roundup of media, finance, real-estate and law news.
Posted 05/16/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Dog Sculptor Jeff Koons Is in the Doghouse
Jeff Koons's porn star ex-wife says he's a deadbeat dad, protestors storm Bear Stearns ineffectively, and Vogue is in all kinds of trouble in our daily roundup of Law, Finance, and Media news.
Posted 03/27/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Ingrid Sischy and Sandra Brant to Helm ‘Vanity Fair’ Abroad
Don't cry for Ingrid Sischy. After she abruptly departed her eighteen-year position as editor-in-chief of Interview magazine, and her girlfriend Sandra Brant (you remember her – she used to be married to Peter Brant) sold her half-ownership stake in the parent company Brant Publications, people were wondering what she was going to do with her life. After all, for nearly two decades her name was synonymous with Andy Warhol's gritty, authentic magazine. But it turns out she's had a great plan all along! Condé Nast HR mouthpiece WWD tells us that both Sischy and Brant will be international editors of Italian, Spanish, and German versions of Vanity Fair. And, what's more, they'll helm any future glamorous expansions abroad. Which is great news for them, probably, but it also raises the question: Is this the biggest lesbian sellout since Anne Heche ditched chicks? Sischy, Brant Join Vanity Fair International Editions [WWD]
Posted 03/17/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Reporters Pissed About Changes at ‘The Wall Street Journal’
MEDIA • The Wall Street Journal wants a cut in its reporters' book deals. Also, they fired their longtime First Amendment lawyer Stuart Karle. "We're pissed," one reporter says. [NYO, Ad Age] • Former Condé Nast execs James Truman and Mitch Fox are collaborating on a project that will combine "a green market and eco-technology with a Cirque du Soleil-like performance series." [WWD]
Posted 03/03/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Bill Clinton Takes a Break From Being Nasty to Get Condé Nast-y
Spotted! Yesterday afternoon, Bill Clinton and a team of Secret Service agents hanging around the lobby of 4 Times Square, the headquarters of Condé Nast Publications. What were they doing there? WWD, which reported the sighting, doesn't know. Could Hillary have been making a mea culpa to Vogue's editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, for backing out of a photo shoot for the magazine (and appearing several months later in Harper's Bazaar)? Or was Bill, who leveraged access to himself to force GQ into killing a Hillary profile a few months back, just there to bully Jim Nelson some more? Personally, Intel suspects that they were making arrangements to appear in Golf Digest. Now that's how you get the Florida vote. Memo Pad [WWD] Update: A reader points out that he was probably visiting his lawyers at Skadden, Arps, whose headquarters are in the Condé building. Duh! Also: Snooze. We were digging the image of Bill and Hill posing in plaid trousers.
Posted 01/29/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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‘Portfolio’ Still Looking Elsewhere for Inspiration
Have you noticed that all of the news about the Great Condé Nast Reshuffling of 2008 has emerged from Women's Wear Daily? It's becoming the mouthpiece of the company's HR department. (Or maybe the news is all a little too boring for anyone else to care about.) After a week of updates about shifts and firings on the business side at Condé titles Vogue, Golf Digest, Lucky, Teen Vogue, and The New Yorker, WWD today tells us about Portfolio (this month's cover pictured here). Apparently the business mag's editor, Joanne Lipman, tapped recently departed Post metro editor, Dan Colarusso, to run its growing Website. Also, to fill new Portfolio publisher William Li's absence at Men's Vogue, Condé looked within its walls to Details associate publisher, Marc Berger. We'd walk you through all of the changes that came last week, but the most telling detail is already above: While the rest of Condé Nast continues to recruit talent only from inside the company, Portfolio continues to look outside for fresh ideas! New Titles All Around [WWD]
Posted 01/16/08 in Daily Intel : Ink-Stained Wretches
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Kent Brownridge Still Stealing Silverware From the House of Wenner
MEDIA • Kent Brownridge picked a new fight with his old boss Jann Wenner, poaching ten-year Rolling Stone vet Joe Levy for the top spot at Blender. Brownridge already stole Men's Journal editor James Kaminsky to take over Maxim. [Mixed Media/Portfolio] • The OK! issue with the Jamie Lynn–pregnancy exclusive sold only 900,000 copies on the newsstand, well short of the roughly 1.5 million the mag had predicted. [WWD] • Steve Cohn on the Condé shake-up following so fast on Steve Florio's death: "It sort of reminds me of The Godfather. They go to the funeral and then they blow everything up." [NYP]
Posted 01/09/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Bush to Economy: ‘Hey, Did You Get a Haircut? Something's Different.’
FINANCE • Bush acknowledges slower economy, but he stops short of warning about recession. Still, will he go for another round of tax cuts? [NYT, NYT] • Financial titans Warren Buffett and Maurice Greenberg came under attack in the Gen Re trial. Neither stands as a defendant, but both were accused of being intimately involved in a fraudulent transaction worth $500 million. [NYT] • Now that Jimmy Cayne's out of the picture, which hedge fund will step in to buy Bear Stearns? [Deal Journal/WSJ]
Posted 01/08/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Jon Stewart Suddenly Not Looking Like the Nice Guy
MEDIA • Is Jon Stewart really the only late-night host not currently covering the salaries of his laid-off, non-striking employees? [Mixed Media/Portfolio] • The key lines from the n+1 essay that helped convinced Choire Sicha and Emily Gould to quit: "The purpose of Gawker Media was always to improve on the print publishing business model. It was never, as the content of Gawker sometimes seemed to suggest, to produce critiques of the waste that model created. The content at Gawker, like most Condé Nast titles, is a service to the advertisers. … You could say that as Gawker Media grew, from Gawker's success, Gawker outlived the conditions for its existence." Joshua David Stein announced his own departure, due mostly to personal loyalty, on Saturday. [n+1, Media Mob/NYO] • Meanwhile, Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici proves that Condé and Gawker really are at the same level: "By the way, those who feel wronged by Gawker over the years can take some satisfaction in the uniquely terrible timing of the walkout for Denton, who is pumped full of painkillers after a recent back injury. Last week, the pain became so intense he needed an ambulance to get to the hospital. As he was being loaded into the ambulance, he says, his greatest fear was that he would be spotted by someone from Gawker, which is headquartered just down the block from his home." [Mixed Media/Portfolio]
Posted 12/03/07 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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