Portfolio named best launch of 2007

Media Industry Newsletter named new business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio as the best launch of 2007 at a lunch in New York on Tuesday.

The newsletter also named Portfolio publisher David Carey and editor Joanne Lipman as two of the industry’s most intriguing people.

Iris Dorbian wrote, “Accepting the honor, Carey elicited chuckles from the audience when he noted, ‘We all know that publishing is a contact sport from time to time.'”

PC world editor Jeff McCracken was also named one of the industry’s most intriguing people.

On his blog, McCracken wrote, ” But as I said as I accepted the award, we’re having fun at PC World exploring all the challenges and opportunities of making a venerable media brand vibrant and relevant during the biggest sea change the publishing world has ever seen.

“These are, in other words, intriguing times to be an editor, period. I’m grateful for MIN’s recognition, and always happy when PC World gets some time in the limelight–although, as I also said at today’s lunch, it’s really the rest of PCW’s editorial staff that does almost all the heavy lifting…”