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While many marketers continue to tighten their belts due to the rough economy, at least one segment of the print advertising industry is more than willing to spend. Large food manufacturers combined to up their ad spending by 12.4 percent in the year's first quarter.

W magazine undoubtedly got its lease on life renewed Tuesday when parent company Conde Nast hired Stefano Tonchi (pictured) from The New York Times to be the high-end fashion title's new editor-in-chief. But the magazine may not be on a long-term lease.

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.

The American print-publishing industry isn't healthy -- and the food it's serving its workers may not be, either. A quick survey of cafeteria health inspection records shows some alarming results. Lunch anyone?

How much symbolism does it take to turn around a bankrupt publishing company? If there's an answer, you can be sure that Mary Berner won't fall short of it. Berner is the CEO of Reader's Digest Association, which filed for Chapter 11 in August. A former executive at Conde Nast Publications, Berner...

Five media companies that spend most of their time in bitter competition with one another are now joining forces in a new venture intended to midwife the arrival of portable digital magazines and newspapers on a mass scale.

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...

When confronted with a sale rumor, standard corporate operating procedure is to ignore it, whether true or false. But some rumors simply need to be knocked down, like today's report in the New York Post that Lagardère, the Paris-based parent of Hachette Fillipacchi Media, is in talks to hand...

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...