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A Day of Reckoning at Conde Nast

We hear Wired had its own round of editorial layoffs today. What’s going on at Conde Nast ? A very bad Monday

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A Day of Reckoning at Conde Nast

Courtney Love Battles American Express

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At Conde Nast, Every Perk Must Go

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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Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody

Ugh. What a terrible cover.

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Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody

The Plight of Print’s Lucky Ones

Lest they offend their many laid off friends, anyone who’s kept their job in print media will tell you the’re one of “the lucky ones.” But privately, survivors talk of the malaise sweeping medialand. This is one of them. Our correspondent, who’s bounced between magazines and newspapers for about five years now, is glad to have a job, obviously — and is staying anonymous in hopes of keeping it

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Homelessness Now an Edge in Elle Internships

A homeless woman has landed a (coveted?) four-month internship with Elle magazine, proving that unemployed journalists need only fall a *little* farther to get “back in the game.” “Bri” (pictured, eyes) is a homeless blogger currently living in a car in a Wal-Mart parking lot. She wrote a letter to Elle columnist E.

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Homelessness Now an Edge in Elle Internships

The New Yorker Will Be Sold For Scrap Before Anna Wintour Stays in a Cheap Hotel

What, exactly, is McKinsey’s strategy for cutting costs at Conde Nast ? Having parsed today’s worthless anecdotal evidence, we now know: Let Vogue do whatever she likes, and make the poor meek New Yorker staffers suffer to make up for it. The McKinsey consultants are zeroing in on Vogue as one of their early targets for “restructuring” and whatnot

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The New Yorker Will Be Sold For Scrap Before Anna Wintour Stays in a Cheap Hotel

Clooney to Sue Paps Over Underage Photos

Filed under: Celebrity Justice , George Clooney , Exclusives George Clooney is gearing up for a legal war in Italy — claiming invasive paparazzi climbed over the wall of his Italian home and shot a topless photo of a 13-year-old girl changing in one of his guest rooms.The photographer also took shots of … Permalink

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Graydon Carter’s Monthly Mortgage Payment Is Probably Less Than Your Rent

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has an interest-free $5.3 million mortgage on his four-story greek revival townhouse in Greenwich Village, courtesy of his sweetheart deal with Condé Nast. What’s he pay?

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Just Because: ‘Saved By The Bell’ People Magazine Cover Reunion

Did they run out of Michael Jackson stories? And poor Mischa Barton didn’t even make the sidebar!..

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Just Because: ‘Saved By The Bell’ People Magazine Cover Reunion