Conde Nast is Officially "No Longer a Magazine Company" // (free preview)
Welcome back, everyone. I find work soothing at times of great chaos or sadness, so I’m happy to be plugging away again after the holiday weekend. (Further reading: my 2021 Glamour piece, “Work Is My Pandemic Hobby: Is That Bad?”)
That I find work a refuge might mean I am in the right business. And I’ve arrived at this happy place despite (because of?) the seismic reinvention of the media industry since I started out in it.
To that end, paid subscribers have already unlocked my insights on one of the more groundbreaking statements about media I’ve heard: Conde Nast is “no longer a magazine company,” according to its CEO. (Sincerest apologies for the redundant emails today, dear paid subscribers, as I humbly learn Substack as I go.)
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Conde Nast is Officially "No Longer a Magazine Company"
I graduated from journalism school at New York University in the Y2K era. At that time, the magazine editor was still a diety. It was the age of idling town cars and Monopoly-money expense accounts, and it was highly (viscerally, achingly) aspirational for someone just starting out in the business.
In graduate school, I’d interned for Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey…’s assistant. (How could I forget the time when I was 25, already a graduate of UC Berkeley, and dispatched out in the snow with a severe head cold to fetch a watch from the watch repair shop for the EIC…’s lithe assistant?)
My duties also included assembling a daily dossier of buzz-worthy topics, compiled from actual print clips in Page Six and the like, Xeroxing them (!), and distributing them to editors’ desks.