On the one-week anniversary of his death, Lou Pearlman’s life story is getting the TV treatment. Magnet Management and Condé Nast have acquired the rights to a recent article published this week…
Conde Nast has acquired tech blog Backchannel from Medium, the publishing platform owned by billionaire and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Backchannel will be…
Days after Comscore reported a sudden decline in Vice Media’s web traffic, Richard Beckman has left the company less than a year after joining as chief revenue officer. Best known for occupying…
Condé Nast has acquired Poetica, a London-based startup that has developed a real-time content editing system, which was co-founded by former lead Twitter engineer Blaine Cook. Terms of the deal were…
Although the term "news magazine" has been used on television for decades, those primetime hours don't really approximate magazines, and tend to contain less and less news. Enter "The New Yorker…
Bob Mankoff is not exactly a media star, but that doesn't seem to bother HBO, which is trumpeting a new doc about him, titled "Very Semi-Serious." Mankoff, 71, is the longstanding cartoon editor of…
After a nearly 20-year tenure at NBCUniversal, senior vice president of corporate communications Cameron Blanchard is leaving the company for Conde Nast. Effective Dec. 7, Blanchard will become…
Big changes for old media brands made a lot of noise last week. But are these the sounds of growing pains or death rattles? The timing of major developments at the Village Voice, Playboy, Time and…
Ryan Schreiber was an indie music buff with no journalism experience when he launched the website Pitchfork out of his suburban Minneapolis home in 1996. On Tuesday, Pitchfork Media joined the big…
Conde Nast has made a big move to expand its reach in the vibrant digital music arena with the purchase of Pitchfork Media. Pitchfork is a highly regarded news and reviews website that since 2013 has…
The battle for the soul of Gawker is underway. Presuming the publication has one, that is. On one side is the management team that decided to pull down an article outing a Conde Nast executive less…
