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Wed Feb 10
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#crime

Condé Nast's 'Fraud Hotline' Is For Freebies, Too

Condé Nast set up a hotline for ratting out coworkers who release secrets, take "unauthorized discounts" or just straight steal from the company. That sort of highway robbery is permissible only between a top editor and a consenting Si Newhouse.

02/02/10

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By Ryan Tate

#perks

Click here to read Life after Condé Nast: Former <em>Domino</em> Editor No Longer Living Under Uncle Si's Roof

Life after Condé Nast: Former Domino Editor No Longer Living Under Uncle Si's Roof

When Condé Nast folds a magazine, it doesn't just clear out the desks. There's also the messy business of disentangling the top editors from all the perks that came with being in S.I. Newhouse's good graces. Ask Domino's Deborah Needleman. More »

02/01/10

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By John Cook

#instantreview

Print Media's Big Tablet Letdown

No doubt, Steve Jobs showed off a compelling tablet computer today, one that should excite people who make videogames, TV shows — even books. But today's Apple iPad debut was a big letdown for magazine and newspaper people. More »

01/27/10

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By Ryan Tate

#requestforinformation

Conde Nasties: How Would You Improve Your F'd Up Company?

Conde Nast is offering $10,000 each quarter for the employee who offers the best idea for improving the company. Do not be suckered in, Nasties! Do you trust the company to protect you? Instead, post your honest ideas here. More »

01/13/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#gossiproundup

Heidi Montag's New Song Is the Apotheosis of Gross

"Eat my panties off me," Mrs. Pratt rhythmically coos. Vogue threatens Anna Wintour's town car, Elin Nordegren invests in another house, Ryan Seacrest cries over Simon. Come, plumb the depths of Wednesday's gossip. More »

01/13/10

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By Maureen O'Connor

#media

'Mad Dog' Beckman Leaving Conde Nast? (Yes)

Richard Beckman, the former Conde Nast media group chief who was demoted to CEO of Fairchild fashion group last March, may leave Conde to head up trade publisher e5 (Update: Confirmed). But he was so popular! [NYP. Pic: Getty]

01/12/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#boobs

Click here to read <i>Brides</i> Employee Fired For Blouse-Unbuttoning

Brides Employee Fired For Blouse-Unbuttoning

Sexy wrongful dismissal suit time! Conde Nast fired a Brides employee for making like a Brooklyn high school romance language teacher and showing her sports bra to friends, in her office, while talking about her breast augmentation surgery. [Via Romenesko]

01/08/10

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By Pareene

#condenast

The Condé Nast SkyMall Catalog

Condé Nast may start sullying itself by licensing its fancy magazine brand names for dreaded "brand extensions" to raise extra cash. Go big, we say! Click through for seven Condé Nast brand extensions that will really work. More »

01/06/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#media

Conde Nast Anxiously Awaits Motivational Speech Month

Conde Nast CEO Chuck Townsend is meeting personally this month with shell-shocked staffers at the company's various magazines for what is described as "a rah-rah speech" with "lots of charts and graphs." Everybody, "Conde rules" on one! [NYO]

01/06/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#crime

Conde Nast Will Not Tolerate Digital Nose-Thumbing In Its Direction

Earlier this month, Conde Nast filed a lawsuit to try to find the identities of hackers who posted images of Conde magazines online in November, prior to their publication. Conde Nast has no patience for electronic chicanery from common layabouts. More »

12/30/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#holidaze

Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift

Conde Nast's beautiful holiday gift this year: a $15 gift card to the Conde Nast cafeteria. Oh, you really shouldn't have! More »

12/17/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#mediacrack

Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton

In your tremendous Tuesday media column: Dan Abrams is trying to take us on, bloggers now just as glorious as grizzled war reporters, Conde needs a PR person, and the New York Times Co. continues downward, dog. More »

12/08/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#media

The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!

Today, four prestigious magazine publishers, and News Corp, officially announced their new "digital storefront" for magazines and stuff. Buy it and put it on your E-reader! Are you sick of E-readers yet? You will be! And you'll be using one. More »

12/08/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#printisdead

Condé Nast Is the Latest to Convert in Apple's Secret Tablet Faith

Condé Nast says it is already racing to repackage its magazines for Apple's forthcoming tablet, starting with Wired, even while toeing Apple's line that the device doesn't exist. Publishers are clearly betting Steve Jobs can save their business model. More »

11/18/09

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By Ryan Tate

#timewarp

Click here to read For Christmas, Condé Nast Will Party at a Restaurant Now-Defunct <em>Gourmet</em> Magazine Once Heralded

For Christmas, Condé Nast Will Party at a Restaurant Now-Defunct Gourmet Magazine Once Heralded

They're back, baby! After killing six magazines and banishing hundreds to the unemployment line, Condé Nast has decided to go through with its annual holiday fete. More »

11/18/09

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By Maureen O'Connor

#magazines

Final tally: ad pages dropped 32% (or 8,359 pages) at Condé Nast in 2009.

11/11/09

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#mediacrack

Hearst Is Amazingly Not Broke

In your woebegone Wednesday media column: Hearst gets money, layoffs at Current TV, Conde Nast gets internet religion, and Sesame Street characters are the swing votes in Fox News' war for righteousness. More »

11/11/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#magazines

Click here to read <em>The New Yorker</em>, by the Numbers

The New Yorker, by the Numbers

For the second time this decade, the New York Observer's cobbled together the TOP SECRET masthead of The New Yorker. It sure has a lot of people working for it! A numerical summary, below. More »

11/11/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#mediacrack

Give Reporters the Most Luxurious Airline Seats or Give Them Death

In your meritocratic Monday media column: Reporters suffer injustices unseen since Pol Pot's darkest days, The Week guarantees goodness, Esquire has a gizmo thingamajig that will save magazines, and Conde Nast gives up on America, finally. More »

11/09/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#recession

Conde Nast Cancels Christmas Lunch, Hires Crisis Flack

Si Newhouse (pictured, above) canceled Conde Nast's famous Christmas lunch for the second year in a row, and then—uh oh—then he hired a crisis management flack. Did Details dump toxic waste in Peru? More »

11/06/09

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By Pareene

#auctions

Si Newhouse (Almost) Breaks Even

Conde Nast overseer Si Newhouse desperately put his Alberto Giacometti sculpture, "L'Homme Qui Chavire"—for which he'd paid $20 million— up for auction at Sotheby's yesterday. He was expected to lose $10 million on the sale. He got lucky. More »

11/05/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

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Final tally: ad pages dropped 32% (or 8,359 pages) at Condé Nast in 2009.

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