Dumenco is not a fan of NY Times' Career Couch column
Advertising Age’s Simon Dumenco pokes fun at the New York Times’ business section’s “Career Couch,” a Q&A column for career advice. A particularly lame recent column focused on the topic of co-wowrkers who stink. Not those who do a bad job, but those with body odor. Dumenco wrote, “The column ended with this helpful exchange: […]
Observations from the Conde Nast Portfolio lunch
Conde Nast Portfolio, the new business glossy slated to debut next year, held a lunch on Thursday in New York with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and FishbowlNY was there to observe and take notes. Some key points, according to its posting, were: — Big advertisers like Fed Ex, Johnny Walker and others — are interested […]
Conde Nast to sell three industry publications
Conde Nast, which announced earlier this month that it would launch a new business magazine called Portfolio in April 2007, wants to sell three industry publications — Supermarket News, Home Furnishings News and InFurniture, according to a story in Crain’s New York. Reporter Catherine Tymkiw wrote that the publications three titles are part of the […]
Launch of Conde Nast's Portfolio will help competitors
Media Life Magazine staff writer Samantha Melamed writes that despite the fears from other business glossies that Conde Nast Portfolio, a new business magazine that will debut next year, will take away advertising, the launch of a new biz pub means that the sector is vibrant and the new publication will attract new readers and […]
Conde Nast Portfolio shrewd at playing journalists for coverage
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman notes that the vast amounts of coverage being given the new Conde Nast business magazine has been primarily the result of the glossy playing journalists like a violin — my term, not his — by announcing the name, Portfolio, fully nine months before the first issue will hit newstands. Friedman […]
Conde Nast biz magazine won't be writing about parent
Conde Nast Portfolio editor Joanne Lipman likely won’t be overseeing any stories in the magazine about the parent company or the Newhouse family, she told the Media Industry Newsletter. That’s unlike Fortune, which has regularly skewered parent company AOL Time Warner. From MIN: “I love the challenge of creating a new product,” she says. “Yes, […]
Ad Age critic takes swip at NYT's stock charts, new Conde Nast glossy
Advertising Age’s Simon Dumenco takes a shot at both the New York Times’ business section and the new Conde Nast Portfolio, a business magazine slated to appear next year, in his latest column. Dumenco writes, “Would it kill you, New York Times, to admit that your much-hyped ‘Market Gauges’ pages — the successor to the […]
The challenge for Conde Nast Portfolio
According to Media Life’s Samantha Melamed, new business glossy Conde Nast Portfolio will need to have journalism that will distinguish itself from others in the group. Melamed wrote, “The challenge for the new monthly title will be to present readers the sort of engaging journalism that will separate it from the slew of existing titles, […]
Conde Nast magazine to be called "Portfolio," begin next year
The new Conde Nast business magazine will be called “Portfolio,” and the first issue will be published for May 2007, according to an article in the New York Times on Monday. Its slogan will be “business intelligence.” Reporter Katherine Seelye wrote, “Of Condé Nast’s magazines, only a few — Wired, The New Yorker, Golf Digest […]
Conde Nast biz magazine name: Either "Quote" or "Portfolio"
Women’s Wear Daily is reporting Thursday that the much-anticipated new business magazine from Conde Nast is about to decide on its name, and the paper reports that it expects either Quote or Portfolio to be the choice, with Quote as the front-runner. WWD reported, “A spokeswoman for the Condé Nast Business Group wouldn’t confirm the […]
