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Newhouse rips up Portfolio

Keith Kelly of The New York Post reports that Conde Nast CEO Si Newhouse met this week with Conde Nast Portfolio editor Joanne Lipman and gave a detailed list of what needed to be changed in the business glossy.

Kelly wrote, “When the meeting was over, a flurry of Newhouse-dictated changes ensued, and that had some staffers concluding that Si was not happy with the original incarnation of Portfolio issue No. 4.

“‘He was in the weeds,’ said one source. ‘He’s never asked for re-dos before. It suggests the old man wasn’t terribly happy.’

“Pish-posh, insisted a spokeswoman for Portfolio. She described the meeting as part of the normal way of doing business for a new magazine.

“‘Si and Joanne look at the issue every month and go through the magazine page by page,’ said the spokeswoman. ‘In the way that [CondÃ© Nast Editorial Director] Tom Wallace does it for other magazines, Si does it here.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.