We keep telling you which Halloween costumes to avoid , but we wouldn’t be very servicey if we didn’t offer up some suggestions, now would we? So, before you hit Halloween Headquarters this weekend, here is a list of Gawker-approved ideas.
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Six Truly Scary Halloween Costumes We Can Endorse
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Tagged dance, former-english, gettypic, grace coddington, halloween, mckinsey, media-insiders, September Issue, spirit-fingers, works-best
The results of the Conde Nast Magazine Death Pool are in, stunningly early: the company announced this morning that it’s folding Gourmet, Cookie , and two bridal magazines, Elegant Bride and Modern Bride . This, then, is the fallout from McKinsey. The company had floated the idea that its turnaround could be accomplished without any magazines going under (if you’re keeping score, Michael Musto’s rumor of five mag deaths beat Keith Kelly’s rumor of zero), but that was always impractical.
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The Wrath of McKinsey: Conde Nast To Fold Gourmet, Three Others
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Tagged conde nast, cookie, elegant-bride, gourmet, Hollywood, internal memos, magazine-death, mckinsey, media, modern, modern bride, parenting, recession, review
Twenty-five percent! One fourth of the whole pie! This scary number’s being kicked around everywhere as the worst(?) case scenario for the looming Conde Nast budget cuts . Every perk is being trimmed—even the ones for little old ladies. A tipster tells us the following story, and we don’t need to spell out its implications: For decades, the New Yorker gave its longtime employees (those with, say, 20 years or more on the job, or those who retired) a small perk: a lifetime subscription to the New Yorker
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At Conde Nast, Every Perk Must Go
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Tagged conde nast, expense, gotten-the-perk, Hollywood, magazines, mckinsey, perks, rumormonger, spell-out-its
While the dreaded McKinsey recommendations are still weeks away, Conde Nast is in full cost-cutting mode. Examples: Graydon Carter is now lunching in the cafeteria with commoners and the free Fiji water will soon be replaced by tap water
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This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But With Tap Water
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Tagged article, balthazar, choire sicha, conde, david remnick, downturns, graydon-carter, Hollywood, john koblin, life, mckinsey, nobu, posts-tagged, source
That was quick. Here is the grim memo that Condé Nast Chuck CEO Townsend just sent out announcing that it is bringing in McKinsey & Company to “develop new perspectives on optimizing our approach to business.” This will be brutal.
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The Management Consultants Who Will End Condé Nast As We Know It
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Tagged america, approach, bad omens, brands, conde nast, financial, from-the-deep, internal memos, mckinsey, painfully-slow, project, revenue-losses, study, substantial, the-substantial
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