Wired executive editor leaving for The Atlantic
Bob Cohn, the executive editor of Wired magazine, is leaving to take over The Atlantic’s Web operations, writes Jeff Bercovici of Conde Nast Portfolio. Bercovici writes, “‘It’s going to be a huge challenge,’ acknowledges Cohn, who is moving from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., where The Atlantic is headquartered, and where he once served as […]
FT redesigns Web site
Jeff Bercovici of Conde Nast Portfolio writes Monday about the redesigned Financial Times Web site, which launches this week. Bercovici writes, “Two things they’re likely to notice first: The homepage’s background is now all pink, like the print edition’s paper, and the masthead says ‘Financial Times’ rather than ‘FT.’ James Montgomery, the site’s top editor, […]
Bloomberg News to lift ban on anonymous sources?
Jeff Bercovici of Conde Nast Portfolio reports Friday that Bloomberg News is considering lifting its ban on the use of anonymous sources in stories. Bercovici writes, “As the rules now stand, any utterance that appears between quotation marks has to be attributed by name, and the appearance in print of any information attributed to anonymous […]
Cuts begin at Portfolio
Peter Kafka of All Things Digital, the Wall Street Journal site, has some of the people being let go from business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio, including senior editor Ken Wells, senior editor Jeff Garigliano, associate editor Jeff Van Dam, reporter Mary Bridges and staff writer Paul Smalera. Kafka writes, “Ken Wells is the most high-profile […]
Conde Nast exec: Portfolio won't be going out of business
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman talked to Conde Nast Group president David Carey on Thursday in the wake of the announcement that Conde Nast Portfolio will be cutting its staff and two issues from its publication schedule, and he came away with the impression that the magazine will survive. Friedman writes, “Carey, one of the […]
Portfolio to cut two issues
Peter Kafka of All Things Digital reports Thursday that Conde Nast Portfolio will cut two issues out of its publishing schedule as part of its parent company’s cost-cutting efforts. Kafka reports that the monthly business magazine, which launched in 2007, will cut 5 percent from its editorial budget. The December and January issues will be combined, as […]
Bad choice for Portfolio cover
John Koblin of the New York Observer writes Thursday that the latest cover of business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio, which features American Apparel CEO Dov Charney, is a bizarre choice given the current economic and Wall Street turmoil. Koblin writes, “Joanne Lipman, the magazine’s editor, said that Dov Charney graces the cover because of the […]
Is Portfolio in trouble?
CityFile New York wonders whether business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio is in trouble given the current economic conditions. CityFile writes, “Since its debut in 2007, Portfolio has struggled to gain subscribers and advertisers, fired editors and hired new ones, changed its cover strategy, and emerged as the perpetual train wreck that media obsessives can’t get […]
Lewis leaving Portfolio for Vanity Fair, or will he?
John Koblin of the New York Observer reports that Vanity Fair was wooed Michael Lewis away from Conde Nast Portfolio. It’s the second major business writer that Vanity Fair has grabbed this year. Earlier, it convinced Bethany McLean to leave Fortune. Koblin writes, “‘Michael is a contributing editor for Portfolio and he’s continuing to work […]
WSJ.com redesign is coherent and thought-out
Felix Salmon of Conde Nast Portfolio likes what he sees in the redesigned Wall Street Journal Web site. Salmon writes, “But overall the redesign gets a solid A. Every page looks thought-out and coherent, like it was designed by a really smart human rather than dynamically put together by a dumb computer. The index pages, […]
