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Conde Nast Traveler interview (Matt Damon News Column)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:48:02 GMT

Matt is on the cover of the September issue of Conde Nast Traveler to promote Running the Sahara and his charity work. The interview is introduced here and is available in full here , with excerpts below. Video of the cover shoot in Rabat, Morocco, is here , and includes Matt borrowing a shirt from photographer Jonas Karlsson for the shoot. We usually don't spill the beans about upcoming...

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Matt Damon: Africa trip was life changing (In Case You Didn't Know)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:15:21 GMT

It was on his 2006, six-day “listening and learning trip” to Zambia with his sculptor-artist brother Kyle that caused Matt Damon to see “the world water crisis is one of the most important public health issues of our time,” People’s Sexiest Man Alive tells Conde Nast Traveler for its September issue...

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Travel Link Roundup (BlogHer)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:08:24 GMT

Things that crack me up: Paris Hilton reads Conde Nast Traveler. Maui, eh? -- The Perrin Post Stories we never stop shaking our head about: More climbers dead on K2 - Travel Babel I recently read Dark Summit , yet another tale of mountaineering gone wrong. Deep sigh here.

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Morning Memo: ScarJo's Still an Obama Gal; Graydon Carter's New Bar; Morgan Freeman's Wrecked Marriage (The Daily Transom)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:22:34 GMT

Mary-Kate Olsen won't have to talk to the police about Heath Ledger 's death after all. [ NYDN ] Graydon Carter bought the lease on the Monkey Bar on East 54th Street. One of his partners told the Post, "It's just going to be a little bar in Midtown." Just like the Waverly Inn is a little bar in the West Village! [ P6 ] read more » Scarlett Johansson is still talking about being friends with Barack...

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MONKEY BIZ (New York Post)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:34:23 GMT

GRAYDON Carter is expanding his restaurant empire into Midtown. The Vanity Fair editor, who already co-owns the Waverly Inn, has bought the lease of East 54th Street's famed Monkey Bar from the Glazier Group with two partners, hotelier Jeff Klein...

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Vogue Italia Comment Love! (Afrobella)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:29:15 GMT

Even though we’re now in August (this year is positively flying past me, I swear), the July issue of Vogue Italia continues to make news. The issue was the first in Conde Nast history to be reprinted, and it’s been analyzed to high heaven — Jezebel did exhaustive work, as did Make Fetch Happen. Stylechile [...]

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Graydon Carter Buying Monkey Bar (Diner's journal by Frank Bruni)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:08:58 GMT

Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair and an owner of the Waverly Inn in Greenwich Village, has bought The Monkey Bar with two other partners, Florence Fabricant reports. The partners are Jeff Klein, an owner of the City Club Hotel and Jeremy King of The Wolseley, the restaurant in Picadilly, London. Mr. Carter’s spokesperson, [...]

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Is Conde Nast Portfolio Reading Isak? (Isak)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:36:38 GMT

Coming on the heels of this interesting conversation happening in the Isak comment is this reflection on Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal: There's hardly a newsroom in America whose female denizens haven't at at some point described it -- usually...

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WSJ subscription system is broken (Talking Biz News)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:08:22 GMT

Felix Salmon of Conde Nast Portfolio writes Wednesday about the difficulties he has had in switching his Wall Street Journal subscription from a U.S. delivery to a European delivery. Salmon writes, “You’d think it should be relatively easy to suspend my WSJ subscription in New York, and replace it with a WSJ Europe subscription here. But [...]

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CondeNet Positions to Better Compete With Ad Networks (Advertising Age - MediaWorks)

nives@adage.com (Nat Ives) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:26:00 GMT

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The Conde Nast unit CondeNet is reorganizing its sales teams in a bid to better compete against the web's sprawling ad networks. Sales staff had been divided up at groupings of properties including Style.com, Epicurious and magazine sites, but now will organize around content categories and sell across all properties.

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Mobile Banking for the Poor (Kruse Kronicle)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:59:00 GMT

Conde Nast Portfolio.com: Mobile Banking for the Poor At a press conference this morning in Mumbai, mobile-banking company Obopay announced an alliance with Grameen Solutions -- an alliance with an extraordinarily ambitious goal. In ten years' time, the companies said,...

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NYT biz columnist Nocera takes aim at former NYT boss Raines (Talking Biz News)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:10:53 GMT

New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera thinks that the criticism former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines levied in his latest column in Conde Nast Portfolio at business journalists for letting the oil companies off easy is malarkey. Nocera writes, “It’s about how all of us in business journalism are being sandbagged by those awful people running [...]

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Report: Comcast eats up DailyCandy (Webware.com)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:06:00 GMT

Women's e-newsletter start-up DailyCandy seems like a better fit for Conde Nast than Comcast, but Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that the cable company has acquired it for $125 million. It seems to have beaten out Viacom in the bidding, driving up the price in the process. DailyCandy's demographic of trendy urban women is a niche that advertisers love, but it's still a higher price...

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Has the WSJ become a boys club? (Talking Biz News)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:13:14 GMT

Jeff Bercovici of Conde Nast Portfolio wonders if The Wall Street Journal has become too dominated by men, to the detriment of the females on the staff. Bercovici writes, “Some at the paper have begun to say so, albeit quietly, in the weeks since managing editor Robert Thomson put his leadership team in place. In the [...]

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Conde Nast, Encyclopedia Britannica - Selling "Their" Images (Photo Business News & Forum)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:13:00 GMT

... I have seen and heard colleagues try to justify their work for the likes of Vanity Fair, and other Conde Nast publications. Now, starting slowly, VF is selling prints from their past assignment work in their Vanity Fair Store , as shown here: Those are very respectable prices - yet the photographers, atleast under the terms of the agreements they sign for assignments now, are not...

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Breaking Rumor: Did Hearst Buy GQ? (Fashionista.com)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:28:59 GMT

Well here's one from the wonderful world of WTF: We're hearing from a source inside the Hearst building that the company has bought GQ from Condé Nast, and will go public with that information tomorrow. We are calling the appropriate legitimate PR people to see how true or false this is, but one wonders, how could such a bizarre rumor even start?

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Enter the text you see in the image * - Conde Nast Portfolio (Driive)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:02:01 GMT

Enter the text you see in the image * Conde Nast Portfolio, NY - 23 minutes ago Carmakers from around the world unveiled concept cars at the annual North American International Auto Show in Detroit. See All Video & Multimedia by Paul ...

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Vogue Italia All Black Issue Goes Viral (Conversation Agent)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:00:00 GMT

You probably do not know Franca Sozzani. She's the Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Italia. Her decision to create a whole issue of the magazine (Conde Nast, circulation 120,000) featuring all black models ignited a conversation that now spans two continents. With 30,000 reprints in the US and 10,000 in the UK, and 20,000 extra copies in Italy, the July 2008 issue of Vogue Italia will go down...

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Generation Obama fundraiser (Matt Damon News Column)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:08:51 GMT

Photos of Matt, Lucy, Ben and Jennifer Garner leaving a restaurant in Miami on Saturday are below, from Wireimage and Getty Images. Video reports from the Generation Obama fundraiser are at WSVN and CBS . There will be an interview with Matt in the September issue of Conde Nast Traveler , on sale 8 August 2008. Matt and Lucy attended Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up show in Miami last Saturday...

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Thoof Goes Poof (Paidcontent)

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:41:47 GMT

Sorry, couldn't resist it...Thoof, the social news ranking site formed last year and which had $1 million in funding from Austin Ventures and angel investor Ron Conway, has closed down . The site now redirects to Reddit, the social news site now owned by Conde Nast (Thoof had many similarities with Reddit). The Austin-based site was started by Ian Clarke, co-founder of Revver, and before...

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