Condé Nast advertising is down a terrifying 30 percent this year, leading to speculation a bunch more people will be fired. Condé's CEO reassured everyone that, yes, they could be fired. Thanks? CEO Chuck Townsend's memo, via Peter Kafka at All Things Digital , is like one of the vague, color-code...

In the magazine industry, Condé Nast has suffered the most this year. And within Condé Nast, Portolio is at absolute rock bottom. It's getting damned hard to see how the magazine survives. First quarter revenue for the title is off 60 percent, the Post's Keith Kelly writes, worse even than Wired (...

On July 6th, 2005, The Observer officially launched the Media Mob under editor Tom Scocca with a post that attempted—and failed—to introduce an awkward portmanteau word we thought would capture large media companies' incursions into the then-still novel medium of blogs. We called it (shudder) bl...

Condé Nast has closed the German edition of Vanity Fair two years after it launched the title amid great fanfare, blaming the economic downturn. The final issue of Vanity Fair Germany, which was published as a weekly, appeared yesterday. It is unclear what will happen to the 80 Berlin-based staff w...

'Reckless, aren't we?" jokes Nicholas Coleridge, Condé Nast's managing director, as he sits behind his desk at Vogue House, the company's pristine London HQ. The upmarket magazine group, home to Vanity Fair and GQ, will launch two new titles in the coming months; Love, a painfully trendy bian...

In your fiery Friday media column: The Post has a bad cover day, Chuck Todd is mad as hell and can't take it any more, a reporter makes the grave mistake of believing the internet, and more! A late-breaking plane crash leads to an unfortunate juxtaposition of covers for the New York Post. They fixed...

Parade magazine may be "highly profitable," but it's apparently considered so downscale within Si Newhouse's magazine empire that merely being considered for a job there is a bad omen. Case in point: Richard Beckman, head of Condé Nast Media Group and once a hard-charging up-and-comer within the gl...

In your risible Thursday media column: a new New Yorker publisher, Time Out NY cuts pay (with a pizza party!), Laurel Touby Twitters, and more: The New Yorker was Conde Nast 's biggest ad page loser last year, and now their publisher is leaving! Drew Schutte came to the NYer last year from Wired&mda...

In the past 24 hours, more than 8,000 of you voted on which Conde Nast magazine most deserves to live. You care, you really care! Your full results—and what they mean—below: Winner: Wired. A deserving one! Wired is, it's safe to say, the most fully developed and cerebral magazine of the ...

What's this—rumors of more magazine death at Conde Nast? We've had enough. It's time to act. Vote on which teetering Conde mag you want to save, and we'll buy ten subscriptions to the winner. The New York Post's Page Six started the death watch at Allure and the New York Observer warned that t...