Here’s what you need to know about the shake ups going on inside Conde Nast: Vanity Fair will continue to run mindless celebrity cover stories and The New Yorker will continue to not select our caption contest entries.
Oh, and publishers are changing! Basically, Chuck Townsend is clearing out anyone who had an allegiance to the just-deceased Steve Florio. Golf Digest and Fairchild Fashion Group chief Mitchell Fox and Lucky publisher Sandy Golinkin are out. Fox will be replaced by Cond?? Nast Portfolio publisher David Carey; Golinkin will be replaced by Teen Vogue publisher Gina Sanders, who also happens to share a bed with Steve Newhouse (who should one day be running Si’s empire). Meanwhile, New Yorker publisher Lou Cona is heading upstairs to run with Richard “Mad Dog” Beckman’s pack, replacing Amy Churgin.
Fashionable toddlers, however, will continue to adorn the cover of Cookie. The more things change …
• Gawker Media stretches out its corporate legs in California, giving Defamer a neighbor to the north. [Valleywag FAQ]
• Hachette Filipacchi forms a support group for its depressed women’s magazine. Elle was not invited. [Media Week]
• Match Point. Teen Vogue publisher Gina Sanders takes home the Publisher of the Year award. [WWD]
• Jay Rosen’s blogging addiction does not include reading Jossip. Jay, you said it yourself — you gotta’ keep up! [Fishbowl NY]
• Pissing off armed militants by insulting their prophet is not the best idea we’ve ever heard. Especially since it resulted in more kidnapping threats for journalists. Nice job, France. [WaPo]