Vanity Fair

Magazine executive John T. Elduff recently paid $2,000 for the trademark rights of the once-renowned weekly Collier's, which went bankrupt in the 1950s. His plans to bring it back to life as a print publication aim at folks who'll recall the name: those in the 50- to 90-year old demographic.

Former Conde Nast executive Richard Beckman, who's been hiring big-name editors for his trade magazine group, may be courting Rupert Murdoch biographer and professional gadfly Michael Wolff for an editorial director position.

A management overhaul at Conde Nast is meant to help its iconic magazines -- including Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker -- flourish in this century as they did in the last.

The good news, for magazine publishers, is that the earthward plummet in newsstand sales has finally started to moderate. The bad news is that sales are still falling at a vertigo-inducing rate -- just not quite so rapidly as they were a few months ago.

Vanity Fair recently delivered its annual Hollywood issue to howls of protest. The problem: Of the nine supposedly up-and-coming starlets featured on the fold-out cover, not one is African-American, Asian or Hispanic.

Vanity Fair today releases its inaugural list of Hollywood's Top 40 Moneymakers of 2009. Topping the list is Michael Bay, director and producer of the blockbuster Transformers series, who pulled in $125 million, beating mogul Steven Spielberg.

Walmart (WMT) prides itself on its low prices, but it tends to make the news for more controversial topics. For critics, its business practices symbolize all that is wrong with American industry; on the flip side, many consumers view it as a key to their financial survival. As such, the battles...

On Sunday, Vanity Fair and 60 Minutes unveiled their latest news gathering technique: polling. The magazine and news show plan to run monthly surveys to determine the opinions of the American public, and will use the pieces to inform their writing and programming. One of the poll's most...

Is Stephen Colbert more like Roseanne Barr or Hilary Duff? That's an important question for Newsweek, which is hoping to publicize its recent makeover by publishing an issue about Iraq guest-edited by the Comedy Central faux-pundit. New-look Newsweek is sleeker and punchier, with less rehashing of...