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more about #fortpolio more comments → raincoaster: I, too, wanted to like it. I LOVED some of the writers, and some of the articles. But I can't forget the Ducati piece, which babbled on and on like so... more » WaldenChupon: And what's the betting that the Journal's lame ass WSJ is next? From all the protestations from editorial that being perfect bound gave it market diff... more » microtony: Using the word "insouciance" more than once in an article is unacceptable. more » Cheap Shot: more » iplaudius: The dressing down of the empress with no clothes. My question: will she ever work in "this town" again? more » DennyCrane: Paul, you seem to have the same attitude about the industry as I do. Godspeed. more » Spiers: She did tell me that--just before getting to the Gawker part of my work history. Awk-ward! More to the point: I met with the guy who was running the w... more » Awesome X: That's too bad. Portfolio wasn't a bad idea, at least in concept. At least it folded having left behind some high points: [www.portfolio.com] more » Mediahohoho: My sympathies and condolences to the people who put out and marketed a very good magazine. Feels like a punch in the gut. more » gladys_kravitz: I hope they fire the person responsible for those infernal lists, lists, lists. more » Cheap Shot: As a male, I've tried to get into Esquire's editorial content but find it unsatisfying. It's also pretty thin compared to GQ. more » Saxon 212: How is it possible that Esquire a magazine that I have never encountered a reader of survives. Who the fuck reads this 1950s wreck? more » Spirit Fingers: Can I just ask that if people are getting laid off that it not just be those at the bottom of the masthead? Some of those who should get their walking... more » BookishLookish: This is like when an old whore rises from her bed, straps on her corset, applies some red lipstick, dons her cockeyed hat, winks at herself in the mir... more » the supergoddess: I don't often wish ill on those I don't know, but I truly hope the jackhole who wrote this piece of shit was escorted out of the building by HR. more » -
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Inside Fort Polio: A Former Staffer on What Went Wrong
Paul Smalera, a Portfolio staff writer who was laid off before it shut down today, argues that it was hubris and an obstinate editor — not the economy — that doomed Conde Nast's business mag. More » -
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Portfolio, 2007-2009
Conde Nast, Manhattan's most lavish magazine publisher, was once able to subsidize expensive and monumental magazine launches with newspaper profits. But now the last of its kind, Portfolio, is dead.
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#fortpolio
Why Joanne Lipman Should Go
The February issue of Portfolio, which just hit newsstands, has a superficially fascinating account of fugitive fraudster Robert Vesco, who ran Bernie Cornfeld's bogus mutual fund in the early 1970s, and then escaped to Cuba. Except the profile, based on a poorly-sourced book by a Fox News correspondent called James Rosen, is as hollow as the investment empire Vesco ran. For Conde Nast's embattled business magazine, which staffers jokingly call Fort Polio, the article is an embarrassment; for the title's wobbly editor, Joanne Lipman, who forced through the piece against the objections of her colleagues, the publication is an indictment. How flawed is the piece? Here's how. More »
