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Condé Nast Is The Latest To Convert In Apple’s Secret Tablet Faith
9:00AM Ryan Tate | Condé Nast says it is already racing to repackage its magazines for Apple’s forthcoming tablet, starting with Wired, even while towing Apple’s line that the Tablet doesn’t exist. Publishers are clearly betting Steve Jobs can save their business model. More »
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A Year Condé Nast Would Like To Forget
8:02AM Gabriel Snyder | Final tally: ad pages dropped 32 per cent (or 8359 pages) at Condé Nast in 2009.
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The Time Marissa Mayer Invented Google
8:55AM Ryan Tate | Another month, another glossy fashion magazine spread for Marissa Mayer, this time in Glamour. We get it already: the Google veep is a computer scientist in Oscar de la Renta, a nerd invited to the high-school formal. Why embellish her achievements? More »
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Time Staffers Have Two Weeks To Volunteer For Buyout Packages
2:26AM Hamilton Nolan | The massive Time Inc. layoff buyouts are now sweeping through the company’s various magazines. Below, a memo that just went out to Time magazine editorial employees offering them buyouts. Run, don’t walk! More »
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National Geographic Layoffs
7:05AM Hamilton Nolan | A tipster tells us that National Geographic laid off 8-10 staffers today. Reason: “The economy.”
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Graydon Carter: Not So Special Any More?
1:34AM Hamilton Nolan | Amid all of the carnage at Conde Nast this month, rumours were floating that Si Newhouse was sheltering his three most precious magazines: the New Yorker, Vogue and Vanity Fair. Well, the part about Vanity Fair, at least, was wrong. More »
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Conde Nast’s Big Bad Gamble
12:57AM Hamilton Nolan | This year, Conde Nast hired McKinsey, folded several magazines, and instituted across-the-board budget cuts and layoffs. Clearly, the fancy days are over. Right? No, says the company. This is just a temporary blip. More »
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Real Nudes, Cartoon Nudes Fail To Save Playboy
7:45AM Hamilton Nolan | Playboy is cutting its rate base from 2.6 million to 1.5 million, nearly a 40% drop. But…but…naked cartoon characters! What more do you pervs want? [Mediaweek. Pic: TMZ]
Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter
2:17AM John Cook | Maziar Bahari, the Canadian-Iranian Newsweek reporter who has been detained in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison since his arrest while covering the nation’s post-election uprising in June, has arrived safely in London in time for the birth of his first child. More »
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