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Byline: JOHN KOBLIN 'Brand Officer' vs. Editor Just after 1 A.M. on Jan. 31, the editor in chief of Condé Nast's Bon Appétit, Adam Rapoport, looked like he was on [...]

MEMO PAD THREE-PEATS: Big surprise at Tuesday's Digital Ellie ceremony: Adam Moss took home awards in the top two categories. Moss' New York Magazine won for best Web site and [...]

MEMO PAD MINE IS BETTER THAN THEIRS: New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren told a group of Columbia Journalism School students on Thursday night that the magazine became 'kind [...]

MEMO PAD LOTS OF LIFESTYLE MOVES: Laura Lang has been at the helm of Time Inc. for two months and she's ready to get to work with the help of [...]

MEMO PAD BUILDING A NEW SHELTER: Shelter titles are gaining some traction right now, and New York Magazine is getting into the game. New York will launch a stand-alone design [...]

MEMO PAD THE CONDE NAST TEAM: Condé Nast is beginning to add executives the way Vanity Fair signs up contributing editors the masthead looks a little fatter each time you [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN WSJ. Gains As T Battles NEW YORK Five years ago, The New York Times had a real business on its hands when it badly needed one. T: [...]

MEMO PADCUT TO THE BUZZ: BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith has poached Amy Odell from New York Magazine's The Cut blog.Odell will start at BuzzFeed at the end of [...]

MEMO PADVOGUE'S SUPER NIGHT: Other than Eli Manning and the Giants, the other big winners on Super Bowl Sunday turned out to be Anna Wintour and Condé Nast.Madonna began her [...]

MEMO PADAD-ING IT ALL UP: Last week, the vanguard of Condé Nast dominated the awards portion of the company's annual publishers meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. Vogue, The New Yorker, [...]

MEMO PADCONSTANT CHATTER: This summer, The Huffington Post and AOL will launch a video-streaming network that will run 12 hours a day, five days a week. Think of it as [...]

MEMO PAD AND THE WINNERS ARE...: Condé Nast chief executive officer Charles Townsend handed out awards Tuesday night at the Michelle Bernstein restaurant in Palm Beach, Fla., at the company's [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN Food Advertisers Cinching Belts In 2009, when the luxury market crashed and magazines were averaging 25 percent ad page declines, there was one part of the magazine [...]

MEMO PAD GURLEY BROWN'S BIG GIFT: Helen Gurley Brown will donate $30 million to the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford's School of Engineering to create an Institute for [...]

MEMO PAD NEW BFFS: Ever so slowly, the editors at Condé Nast are getting to know their company's chief executive officer more and more. Early next month, for the first [...]

MEMO PAD YOU'VE GOT MALE: Yves Saint Laurent is putting some advertising muscle behind its men's collection. Creative director Stefano Pilati has tapped David Sims who also shot YSL's women's [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN STEERING JOHNSON PUBLISHING Desirée Rogers Finding Her Way Eighteen months ago, not long after leaving the White House, Desirée Rogers had a big problem on her hands. [...]

MEMO PAD MOSS IS GATHERING: Adam Moss has tapped Thomas Alberty to become New York Magazine's next design director. Alberty, most recently the art director at GQ, will replace Chris [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN Who Sold in 2011 (And Who Didn't) No matter what crisis there is on the newsstand, there are a few people who sell no matter what. Take [...]

MEMO PAD OF PARENTS AND PROGENY: Two months later, this latest, somewhat ridiculous New York Times-Huffington Post dispute looks like it's all but over. The Huffington Post's Lisa Belkin wrote [...]

MEMO PAD TIMES TABLES: How long before The New York Times Co. consists of nothing more than The New York Times? The Times Co. disclosed on Monday that it is [...]

MEMO PAD TIME FOR A SWITCH: In a stunning announcement, The New York Times Co. chief executive officer Janet Robinson said late Thursday afternoon that she would resign at the [...]

MEMO PAD MOMMY ME: Three wacky months later, The New York Times finally has a new mommy blogger. The Times has tapped KJ Dell'Antonia to succeed Lisa Belkin as the [...]

Byline: John Koblin Pressing Matters A look at some of the top moments in media. THE TIMES' NEW EDITOR AND A PAYWALL The New York Times launched a paid model [...]

MEMO PAD GET ME A REDESIGN!: Condé Nast's reliable cash cow Glamour has had a rough year. Ad pages dropped 7 percent in 2011, and the magazine's newsstand sales are [...]

MEMO PAD RAIDING THE TIMES: Graydon Carter has tapped T, The New York Times Style Magazine's senior photo editor Judith Puckett-Rinella to become Vanity Fair's new photo director. Puckett-Rinella has [...]

MEMO PAD TIMES FOR A DEAL: Even The New York Times got involved in Cyber Monday last week, and apparently it paid off. The newspaper offered 50 percent discounts on [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN MEMO PAD NOT PARTYING HEARTY: When Condé Nast kicked off the holiday party season with a pre-Thanksgiving luncheon at the Four Seasons, it looked for a brief [...]

MEMO PAD TIME GOES OUTSIDE: It took Time Warner chief executive officer Jeffrey Bewkes nine months to find a replacement for short-lived Time Inc. ceo Jack Griffin and he found [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN Tough Times at Newsweek On Nov. 7, a memo was handed out to Newsweek reporters and editors. The note detailed a new process in how to pitch [...]

MEMO PAD BEASTLY TURMOIL: In a significant leadership overhaul, Tina Brown 's top two editors at Newsweek are leaving the magazine and its publisher has been let go. Newsweek/Daily Beast [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN The Three Musketeers of Condé Nast Ride Again NEW YORK Graydon, Anna and David have their other projects, of course. Graydon Carter, editor in chief of Vanity [...]

MEMO PAD A NEW HARPER'S LOOK BY SPRING: After a decade as editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar, Glenda Bailey is plotting big changes for the magazine and WWD has [...]

MEMO PAD INTO THE TOWER: It has taken 16 months but Hearst Magazines head David Carey has finally roped in a former Condé Nast executive. Hearst said Monday that Debi [...]

MEMO PAD TABLET TALK: Publishers have spent the last two weeks declaring that they just love their tablet businesses, and Hearst Magazines president David Carey did it again on Wednesday [...]

MEMO PAD RULE NO. 1 DON'T MESS WITH ELEPHANTS: In Condé Nast's most recent round of publisher reshuffling, Carolyn Kremins landed at Condé Nast Traveler. She called the job 'a [...]

MEMO PAD TABLET TALK: All these months later, with some decent subscription numbers and a possible antidote to the iPad in the Kindle Fire, publishers are beginning to find a [...]

MEMO PAD RICH ON RICH: On Tuesday night, New York editor Adam Moss threw a slightly belated Welcome to New York Magazine party for once-a-month writer and former Times columnist [...]

MEMO PAD AN AMAZON ARRIVES TO BATTLE APPLE: As Amazon.com chief executive officer Jeff Bezos introduced his new tablet, the Kindle Fire, during a press conference Wednesday morning in Manhattan, [...]

MEMO PAD CONDE CHANGES ROLL ON: Call it the September surprise. As first reported on WWD.com, Condé Nast completed the second half of its shake-up Friday: Chris Mitchell was named [...]

MEMO PAD DIXON JOINS VANITY FAIR: Graydon Carter has taken from Adam Moss ' stable again. Just weeks after Vanity Fair hired Chris Rovzar from New York to become its [...]

MEMO PAD HEARST DEAL: With a rumored tablet not far away, Amazon.com has tightened its relationship with Hearst. The publisher said Tuesday that the two companies have entered a content [...]

MEMO PAD ALI HEWSON'S NEW MEN: Edun is putting its men's business in the spotlight this season via an online marketing campaign featuring a roster of guys with both style [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN CBS Hopes for No Delays After Tuesday Rainout Rain canceled U.S. Open action on Tuesday, and with bad weather forecast for the rest of the week, a [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN GRAND PAM Shriver Serves As Courtside Jester 'I hate sitting still,' said Pam Shriver. It was Tuesday evening, and Shriver, the ESPN tennis analyst, just introduced herself. [...]

MEMO PAD MEISEL'S MIRROR IMAGES: The staff of W landed a long-awaited coup for its September issue: Photographer Steven Meisel shot a 22-page black-and-white portfolio for the magazine. W staffers [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN The Flushing Meadows Diet NEW YORK Only three men over the last seven years have won the U.S. Open, so what will it take to knock five-time [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN BRAT ATTACK America's next great hope has more work to do: 19-year-old Ryan Harrison was manhandled in the first round of the Open on Monday in a [...]

MEMO PAD JOURNAL ENTRY: While Sally Singer handed over her latest cover of T: The New York Times Style Magazine to the relatively unknown jazz singer Esperanza Spalding, editor Deborah [...]

MEMO PAD A CONFIDENT RUPERT: Rupert Murdoch said Wednesday that he will remain as chairman and chief executive officer of The News Corp. and that he has no interest in [...]