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******* It’s time for another fun Q+A! This time, we hunted down Ed2010, considering it has been a fave Jossip site for years. (Of course, when they hooked our fresh from college editor up with some Graydon Carter face time, our love only grew.) It's only fitting that we'd be brimming with questions for Chandra Czape, a Midwest native who (after asking her EIC at American Baby to lunch) landed an EA job at Good Housekeeping. The rest is history. Though Chandra is now a top editor at Cosmo Girl!, she hasn't stopped inspiring college kids with dreams of being Adam Moss' assistant to polish their resumes, pull their clip files, and search Ed for those open spots. After the jump, get the scoop on how Chandra started the whispery site, her first Bonnie Fuller experience, affection for the word "whippersnapper", and the frightening realization that aspiring fashion editors will pay what little money they have for the chance to meet Anna Wintour. MORE ONLINE
2. WWD
The business magazine that Cond? Nast announced it was developing way back in August finally has a name: Portfolio. (As WWD reported Thursday, the other names in final contention were Quote, File and Currency.) It also has a timeline: The first issue will hit newsstands April 24, 2007, with the Web launch taking place the same day, and the frequency shifting to monthly in September. But even before there was a title, and though sample pages have been closely guarded, Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive officer, has gamely agreed to be interviewed by the magazine’s editor in chief, Joanne Lipman. Schmidt will sit down with Lipman at the Four Seasons for lunch and conversation for approximately 75 people on June 15. “Google is at the center of so many issues right now — the competition with Microsoft, the situation in China. It’s the company everyone admires and fears,” said David Carey, president of the Cond? Nast Business Media group, who added there would be up to six more lunches between now and the launch of the magazine next year. Asked how the magazine had gotten the reticent Schmidt to agree to the public Q&A, Carey said, “A lot of the editors at the magazine have preexisting relationships. Those preexisting relationships have driven the asks.” Well, that and perhaps the promise of an 8,000-word profile, with photos by Annie Leibovitz.
3. New York Times
After months of anonymity, the new glossy business magazine from Cond? Nast has an identity, Cond? Nast Portfolio, with the subtitle Business Intelligence. Joanne Lipman, the magazine's editor in chief, said she liked the name because it conveyed several meanings: a corporate portfolio of brands, a personal financial portfolio and a collection of one's best artwork. "It worked on every level for us," Ms. Lipman said in an interview in her Times Square office. Better yet, she said, the title reflected the magazine's content. MORE ONLINE
4. New York Times
Maxim, the raucous men's magazine, has never been shy about putting its name out there. But nothing compares to its latest brand extension, which will affix the Maxim name to a new hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Maxim's parent company, Dennis Publishing, is expected to announce today that it has signed a deal with a real estate developer, Concord Wilshire Partners, to build the Maxim Hotel and Casino, a $1.2 billion destination hotel with 2,300 rooms and a 60,000-square-foot casino that is to open in 2010. All the accouterments of any self-respecting new hotel on the Strip will be on hand: a luxury spa, high-end retailers, celebrity chefs, lots of conference space. Then, the connections with Dennis Publishing will be added. Maxim Lounge, a collaboration with the nightlife impresarios Rande and Scott Gerber, will have an outpost in the hotel. And the company's music magazine, Blender, will get top billing on the outdoor and indoor concert spaces. MORE ONLINE
5. New York Times
Frank A. Bennack Jr., the former chief executive of the Hearst Corporation, was recently touring the resplendent new headquarters the company has erected at Eighth Avenue and 57th Street in Manhattan. What would William Randolph Hearst, the company's legendary founder, have thought of this glass and steel monolith? he was asked. "He only wanted to own his own land and all the land that joined it," Mr. Bennack replied. Gazing around the lobby, he added: "He would have loved it." Chances are that the Chief, as Mr. Hearst was known to his minions, would be as pleased with the seemingly flush condition of the empire he left behind on his death 55 years ago. Indeed, the company paid for the gleaming headquarters with $500 million in cash. MORE ONLINE
6. New York Post
The editor of Spin may be spinning out the door as early as today. Relations between Spin Editor-in-Chief Andy Pemberton and the new owners of the music title are said to be strained and could come to a head today. Web sites were crackling with news late last week that Pemberton had been ousted from the job after editing only two issues for the new owners, Tom Hartle and Nion McEvoy. The pair bought the once-profitable but now money-losing title from Robert Miller's Vibe/Spin Ventures for a song in February.
7. New York Post
After weeks of suspense and more than a little dithering, Cond? Nast Portfolio is the name of the much-heralded arrival in the business magazine wars. The subject of much speculation, Portfolio beat out Quote and perhaps - if reports are true - File. As The Post reported, Cond? Nast was purportedly hamstrung by the fact that so many of the most obvious titles were already taken, either in print or online. Led by former Wall Street Journal stalwart Joanne Lipman, the magazine is hoping to carve out a niche in the bitterly contested business magazine segment, populated by established brands like Forbes, BusinessWeek and Fortune. MORE ONLINE
8. The Deal
Ogden Publications Inc. announced Friday that it has acquired Utne magazine, although neither party revealed terms for the Minneapolis-based bi-monthly. Utne, which bills itself "the nation's leading digest of alternative ideas" and has a paid circulation of 225,000, was purchased from privately held Lens Publishing Co. Inc. and Nina Rothschild Utne. Nina is the wife of Eric Utne, who founded the magazine in 1984 but then relinquished leadership to Nina in the late 1990s. Currently the magazine's chair and CEO, Nina Utne will assume the title of editor-at-large under new ownership. And despite Ogden's headquarters in Topeka, Kan., Utne will continue to be put out from its offices in Minneapolis. MORE ONLINE 9. Jossip The print version of Conde Nast's new biz title Portfolio is actually only half the fun: there's going to be a full-blown website (maybe Flash video, too?!) to go along with. And that's just a little of what 4 Times Square is offering from its online umbrella CondeNet. VanityFair.com hasn't always looked so glam, and Men.Style.Com was once just a dirty pile of soiled socks next to Style.com. Now those web fashion titles actually bring in revenue! Who knew this online space was awash with ad dollars? Si Newhouse & Co., that's who. Because it's not just the web versions of their treasured glossies that Conde Nast is taking an interest in — they're also going after Janice Min's turf with Lipstick.com, a Digg-like website for the celeb worshipper in all of us. MORE ONLINE
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