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We're still obsessing over that Ben Widdicombe blind item: "Which very senior Manhattan media executive looks like he might be about to go public with that office affair everyone has been talking about?" You know what we keep forgetting about? Conde Nast CEO Charles Townsend is in divorce proceedings in a Miami-Dade court. The Herald doesn't list a cause for the filing. He used to work with his wife at Family Circle! (Also we forget that he's a commodore of New York Yacht Club! Bwa.) Now that is something even less than circumstantial evidence if we've ever seen it. But don't men always make the same mistake twice? [Miami Herald]
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Conde Nast Without End, Amen
There has been a succession of CEOs since time immemorial.Conde Nast's chairman Si Newhouse, on Conde's relatively new president and CEO, Charles Townsend, successor to the "legendary and flamboyant" Steve Florio. Much like the recent trope categorizing the blogosphere as the Wild West — and just in time for "Talk Like a Pirate Day" — Florio is described as a "pirate captain" who ran Conde Nast as "a very swashbuckling sort of an organization." Arrr! Of course, others say he ran the company like "a high school"; Townsend diplomatically calls that era a "very emotionally charged environment." Just like high school! Or a pirate ship. No matter your metaphor, remember that Si Newhouse endures, always waiting, seeing all who have been and all who are still to come. More »
