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******* Joanne Lipman, the editor of Portfolio, the new business magazine from Cond? Nast, tapped gently last Monday on the door of David Carey, the publisher, and then burst into his bright Midtown corner office. It’s here!” she said, grinning and handing him a copy of the much-anticipated debut issue of Portfolio. Lush, photo-rich and thick with ads (185 ad pages in a 332-page issue), it’s an unmistakable stablemate of Cond? Nast’s Vogue and Vanity Fair. The cover photograph isn’t of John F. Welch Jr. or Bill Gates but a rooftop view of Manhattan, golden lights glowing in anonymous office cubicles — a homage to Berenice Abbott, who documented New York’s changing cityscape in the 1930s. MORE ONLINE
2. New York Post
JOHN Huey and Andy Serwer aren't waiting for the debut issue of Portfolio to hit before they launch their counter-offensive at Fortune. Serwer, who took over as managing editor of the Time Inc. business magazine in October after the ouster of Eric Pooley, today unveils a jazzy new cover of the magazine's vaunted Fortune 500 issue. Serwer, a veteran Fortune staffer, was picked by Huey, Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief, to be the top editor to quell staff unrest that had built during the short-lived Pooley era. (Pooley has been taken care of and has since returned to Time magazine, where he is now an editor at large.) MORE ONLINE
3. MediaWeek
Working moms will now appear with their kids on the cover of Working Mother, starting with the May issue that hits newsstands April 17. The change in the cover, which used to picture a solo working mom, is meant to reflect a growing confidence among working women with children. Designer Roger Black came up with the new look, under the direction of editor in chief Suzanne Riss, who came on board in July 2006. MORE ONLINE
4. Fashion Week Daily
When it comes to aspiring to be the next Ralph Lauren or Miuccia Prada, you can never be too young—or too ambitious, for that matter. Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Amy Astley is banking on that premise, partnering with the Council of Fashion Designers of America to form the CFDA/Teen Vogue Scholarship, an annual program dedicated to helping foster the design education of promising students seeking Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees at one of 16 participating 4-year colleges, universities, and design schools in the United States. “Our readers’ number-one question is, ‘How can I break into the fashion industry?’” said Astley. “I’m thrilled that Teen Vogue and the CFDA have joined forces to assist talented high school students find—and finance—the design school that is right for them.” CFDA executive director Steven Kolb added, “Not surprisingly, many of the most successful and gifted designers working today have dreamed of careers in fashion since they were young. This program really embodies the spirit of two of the CFDA’s most important and enduring goals: educating and nurturing successive generations of fashion designers.” The participating schools are Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and Fashion Institute of Technology, in New York City; Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, R.I.; Academy of Art University and California College of the Arts in San Francisco; Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles; Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga.; Drexel University and Philadelphia University in Philadelphia; Kent State University in Kent, Ohio; Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y.; Massachusetts College of Art in Boston; School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, and the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. MORE ONLINE
5. WWD
Today, as the first issue of Cond? Nast Portfolio makes its debut on New York newsstands with 332 total pages, 185 of them advertising, one of the most scrutinized — and expensive — magazine launches in history will finally show its cards. Editor in chief Joanne Lipman sums up the philosophy in her editor's letter: "Business is about power. And guts. And passion. Business coverage should be, too." (A photograph of Lipman with her father, who passed away in mid-February, appears alongside a brief tribute to him in the letter.) In an interview, Lipman also stressed the magazine's design and photography — precisely the aspects skeptics doubted a newspaper veteran like Lipman could master — and said that for the cover, she had turned to fine arts photographer Scott Peterman to create "an iconic image" meant to convey "the excitement of business." That image, as WWD reported, is an overhead shot of New York City skyscrapers at night, and it is unencumbered by cover lines. Instead, a cover flap, like the one on The New Yorker, that will go to both subscribers and newsstand buyers teases stories by some of the magazine's best-known contributors (Tom Wolfe on hedge fund bigwigs, Michael Lewis on Tiger Woods, Matt Cooper on his entanglement in the Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial) and two younger writers (former New York Observer reporters Gabriel Sherman and Sheelah Kolhatkar on the investor who instigated Knight Ridder's sale and the women of private equity, respectively). The Web site also was launched today. But the story topics indicate the difficulties a monthly business title — even one with funding of from $100 million to what some now say is $125 million — faces against instantaneous Internet wires, dailies, weeklies and bi-weeklies. New York magazine's cover story last week was on hedge funds; the Libby trial finished over a month ago. MORE ONLINE
6. Gawker
As you might have heard, Conde Nast's Portfolio launches today. The most important business magazine of its generation, Portfolio starts life with 185 ad pages in a 332-page issue. Cond? chair Si Newhouse says the book was "inspired by a positive response to business articles in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, although he could not recall precisely which ones." (We have the same problem!) Conde 's willing to dump around $125 million into making the mag a success, but some see the publication as a shot across Time Inc.'s bow. In any event, it's the little things that make the difference. Like the pillows in the "idea lab." Portfolio's executives are playing up their differences. For example, in a converted 11th-floor conference room, a place [publisher David] Carey likes to call his "idea lab," black leather couches from Design Within Reach are accessorized with throw pillows. On one side of each pillow is the gray pinstripe often used in Portfolio's branding; on the other, fuchsia satin is meant to signify luxury and includes a corner strip of the magazine's logo. "[Advertisers] come here, admire the pillows, and by the time they get back to the office, there's one waiting for them," said Carey proudly. Meanwhile, over at the magazine's website, economics blogger Felix Salmon is already trashing the articles. Maybe they didn't send him a pillow.
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