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Pitchfork's Absorption Into GQ 'Feels Like a Setback'

Music journalists, musicians ruminate on Conde Nast's decision

(Newser) - Nearly three decades after it was established, Pitchfork, the most influential music publication of the internet age with the power to make or break an artist, is being absorbed by another entity—a men's fashion and style magazine. The website, beloved for being one of modern music's true...

Where's the Beef? Not in This Popular Site's Recipes Anymore

Epicurious' move is in the name of sustainable cooking, but not everyone is happy about it

(Newser) - Food and cooking website Epicurious made a big announcement on Monday, with some critics saying it's a "drastic" one. "Epicurious is cutting out beef," the site, which falls under the Conde Nast umbrella, posted in a tweet , explaining that beef will no longer be included in...

Outcry Over Tweets Ends Hiring at Teen Vogue

Opposition to Alexi McCammond formed after college posts surfaced

(Newser) - After a backlash from readers, employees, and advertisers, Alexi McCammond and Teen Vogue have given up on the idea of her becoming the magazine's next editor. The outcry followed the surfacing of tweets about Asian and gay people she'd written as a college student in 2011, including one...

Apology Is Not Putting Teen Vogue Controversy to Rest

Ulta Beauty pauses advertising campaign with magazine over editor-in-chief's tweets

(Newser) - Alexi McCammond has apologized multiple times over years-old tweets that were derogatory to Asians , but the controversy over the newly appointed editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue appears nowhere close to quieting down. A major ad campaign with the magazine is now on pause over the issue, the Daily Beast reports: Ulta...

Teen Vogue Editor Sees Renewed Backlash on Racist Tweets
Old Controversy Reemerges
for New Teen Vogue Editor
THE RUNDOWN

Old Controversy Reemerges for New Teen Vogue Editor

Alexi McCammond is once again apologizing for racist, homophobic tweets posted in 2011

(Newser) - Teen Vogue has a new top editor, but just days into the job, Alexi McCammond finds herself at the center of controversy. CNN Business reports that 20 or so members of the magazine have sent a letter to management about McCammond, a former Axios reporter whose face had become a...

Bon Appetit Editor Resigns Over Photo

Adam Rapoport dressed in offensive costume meant to portray Puerto Rican stereotypes

(Newser) - Bon Appétit's editor in chief resigned Monday, thanks in part to a Halloween costume he donned 16 years ago, the AP reports. Adam Rapoport and wife Simone Shubuck "dressed as derogatory Puerto Rican stereotypes," per the New York Times , and Shubuck posted a "throwback Thursday"...

Meet the New Vanity Fair Editor
Meet the New
Vanity Fair Editor

Meet the New Vanity Fair Editor

Radhika Jones will succeed Graydon Carter

(Newser) - Condé Nast announced Monday who will be taking over one of the top gigs in publishing—the editor-in-chief position at Vanity Fair, from which Graydon Carter is stepping down after 25 years. Radhika Jones will succeed him at the helm starting Dec. 11; she will be the magazine's fifth...

Media Titan Si Newhouse Dead at Age 89
Conde Nast's Si Newhouse
Dead at 89
OBITUARY

Conde Nast's Si Newhouse Dead at 89

Media titan died after long illness, per family spokesperson

(Newser) - Si Newhouse Jr., whose father founded a media behemoth that eventually fell under his purview, died Sunday at his home after a long illness, a family spokesperson confirmed to Vogue . He was 89. Newhouse, along with his brother Donald, owned Advance Publications, which included the Conde Nast empire, more than...

Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Becoming Actual Magazine

Quarterly issues will be produced in partnership with Conde Nast

(Newser) - Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop, coming soon to a newsstand near you. The actress is turning her lifestyle newsletter/website into an actual print magazine, in partnership with Condé Nast, Women's Wear Daily reports. Quarterly issues of the magazine, which will also be called Goop, will be released starting in September.

5 Best Small Cities to Visit in the US

'Conde Nast Traveler' awards show great destinations do come in small packages

(Newser) - The area in and around Charleston, SC, has had a rough year , but good news has arrived in the form of being picked best small city in the US. More than 128,000 Conde Nast Traveler readers weighed in on their favorite cities in America for the magazine's Readers'...

The Friendliest US City Is...

Charleston, SC, wins again

(Newser) - Condé Nast Traveler's annual list of America's friendliest cities is out again, and once again Charleston, South Carolina, leads the pack—one of eight Southern cities in the top 10, Opposing Views reports. The Traveler 's list, determined by a reader's survey, starts off all South...

Anna Wintour Gets a New Job
 Anna Wintour Gets a New Job 

Anna Wintour Gets a New Job

But no, it's not 'ambassador'

(Newser) - Anna Wintour has a new title—and, though rumors have been swirling for years that President Obama might make the Vogue editor an ambassador, it's not that. Rather, Vogue's parent company Condé Nast is making her artistic director, the company announced today. Wintour, 63, will remain Vogue's...

Publishers Forming 'Magazine iTunes'

Online newsstand to combat slumping sales

(Newser) - The latest bid to save magazine publishing may soon have readers browsing the online racks of an iTunes-style newsstand. Major magazine publishers including Time Inc. and Conde Nast hope to exert some control over digital readership with a joint venture enabling readers to buy copies of the New Yorker, Sports ...

San Fran Is Best US Vacation Destination

Charleston, Santa Fe, New York, and Chicago round out top 5

(Newser) - San Francisco has topped this year’s Conde Nast Traveler list of American cities to visit. The city by the bay edged out Charleston, SC, at No. 2. Metropolises New York and Chicago made a strong showing as well, at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively. The list is based on...

Shuttering Mags, Conde Nast Turns to ... Online Dating?

Publishing giant makes 'very bizarre' venture into new business

(Newser) - OK, so Gourmet wasn't working out, seven staffers at Glamour were just given the boot, and the remaining mags in Conde Nast's stable are slashing up to 25% of their budgets. But obviously the time is ripe for Conde Nast to launch…an online dating site, the New York Daily ...

Gone With Gourmet: a Taste for Expertise

There is no 'hard-won blood-on-the-floor kind' of editorial experience on the Web

(Newser) - When Gourmet magazine absorbed his Cook’s in 1990, Christopher Kimball discovered the hard way that the publishing business is “a top-down, winner-take-all proposition, an oligarchy of sorts.” But the frazzling encounter also afforded him a meeting with Conde Nast chairman Si Newshouse, who “poured his fortune...

How to Keep Gourmet Alive
 How to Keep Gourmet Alive 
OPINION

How to Keep Gourmet Alive

(Newser) - Cookie and Modern Bride are getting the ax, but it's Conde Nast's shuttering of Gourmet that has floored and disappointed readers and non-readers alike. That includes Fast Company's Kate Rockwood, who shares a few ideas for keeping America's oldest food magazine alive—in some form.
  • Move to television: One show
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Condé Nast Axing Gourmet, 3 Other Titles

Magazine publisher could lose $200 million this year, industry sources say

(Newser) - Condé Nast will shut down iconic foodie magazine Gourmet as well as newer title Cookie and Brides offshoots Modern Bride and Elegant Bride, CEO Charles Townsend announced today. Hundreds of jobs will be lost in the company’s biggest single day of closings, the New York Post reports. The publishing...

GQ Buries Story on 'Putin's Dark Rise to Power'

Piece on '99 bombings at odds with Condé Nast's biz in Russia

(Newser) - GQ is keeping a tight lid on one of its own articles that questions the Russian government’s involvement in the 1999 bombings that catapulted Vladimir Putin to power, NPR reports. GQ owner Condé Nast operates in Russia, where dissent is often met with crippling “audits.” So management...

Condé Nast Shutters Portfolio
 Condé Nast Shutters Portfolio 

Condé Nast Shutters Portfolio

(Newser) - Condé Nast’s once-ballyhooed Portfolio magazine will cease publishing immediately, staffers were told this morning. “The five main categories of advertising a publication like ours depends on are really in trouble,” Condé Nast’s group president told the New York Times. The magazine launched in April 2007, and...

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