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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.

Continue reading E5 Global Media Courting Writer Michael Wolff as Editorial Director?

E5 Global Media Courting Writer Michael Wolff as Editorial Director? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:00:00.

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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.

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Conde Nast Remakes Itself With a Focus on Digital Growth originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:05:00.

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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.

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Magazines' Newsstand Sales Keep Plummeting originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:52:00.

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Magazines have a tough time getting race right, but usually they manage to do a better job than Vanity Fair did in its March issue. The magazine, which is owned by glossy publishing house Conde Nast, recently delivered its annual Hollywood issue -- to howls of protest from around the blogosphere and the analog world.

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 average skin tone on display is as white as the new-fallen snow.

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Vanity Fair's Young Hollywood Whitewash originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:00:00.

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Michael Bay (pictured), director and producer of the blockbuster Transformers series, beat mogul Steven Spielberg to top Vanity Fair's inaugural list of Hollywood's Top 40 Money Makers, which the magazine releases on Tuesday. Bay pulled in $125 million last year, according to the magazine, ahead of Spielberg ($85 million), action director Roland Emmerich ($70 million), Avatar auteur James Cameron ($50 million), and Todd Phillips, producer of The Hangover ($44 million). The magazine limits its list to film-industry creatives: producers, directors, and stars.

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Vanity Fair Lists Hollywood's Top Moneymakers originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:01:00.

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