Domino

Domino's upcoming earnings report will show whether customers have really taken to the chain's new, improved pizza recipe, or if recent sales gains were just an advertising-driven blip.

Conde Nast was ruthless with its print magazine titles in 2009, shuttering many niche favorites like Domino. Fans were thrilled this week when content from Domino began reappearing under the Brides magazine masthead on the company's Brides.com website.

The good news: Magazine ad pages are actually up in the fourth quarter for the first time in a dog's age. The bad news: Metropolitan Home won't be around to enjoy it. Hachette Filipacchi Media just announced that it's shutting down the shelter title following publication of its December issue,...

In case you needed convincing that things have changed for good in the glossy magazine business, the best proof yet arrived Monday morning, when Condé Nast Publications -- the home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker -- said it was shutting down Gourmet, a widely respected magazine...

Among the big victims of the recession has been the media world's conventional wisdom. Just a year or two ago, it was still thought that Conde Nast Publications (my previous employer, it should be noted) would weather the downturn that was then beginning more comfortably than any of its competitors...