magazine publishing

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.

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...

A media industry observer who fell asleep seven years ago and woke up last week would've had a hard time believing Friday's newspapers. That was the day that celebrity editor Bonnie Fuller publicly gave up her plans to start her own women's media company, while Quadrangle Group washed its hands of...

When publisher Jann Wenner first revealed his plan to take Us, a middling monthly entertainment magazine, and put it into head-to-head competition with People, the world's most profitable weekly, it had the makings of a colossal error. In time, it even looked like an error to Wenner, who, panicked...