{"id":137288,"date":"2025-10-22T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137288\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:52:09","slug":"inside-conde-nast-the-media-dynasty-that-reshaped-the-world-by-michael-m-grynbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137288\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Cond\u00e9 Nast, the media dynasty that reshaped the world, by Michael M Grynbaum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"   \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/67417d3b368fd5d9953ee419e5b46b6d5d26ee14.jpeg\" height=\"425\" width=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>MEDIA<br \/><\/b><b>Empire of the Elite: Inside Cond\u00e9 Nast, the media dynasty that reshaped the world<br \/><\/b><b>Michael M Grynbaum<br \/><\/b><b>Coronet, $34.99 <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Eileen Ford. Richard Avedon. Fran Lebowitz.<\/p>\n<p>If you had recognised these three names, you would have been one step closer to working at Vogue in the 1990s. These public figures were listed on a set of typed pages that candidates had to identify during an interview with the storied fashion magazine. <\/p>\n<p>For a media institution that set standards for cultural taste and commodified luxury leisure, this was a literal and symbolic test for gaining access to the company\u2019s rarefied world. Michael M Grynbaum, a media reporter for The New York Times, now takes some of its shine off in his robust retelling of the making \u2013 and unmaking \u2013 of the magazine empire.<\/p>\n<p>With publications like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and GQ, the company once wielded unparalleled cultural influence. \u201cFor decades, one company \u2026 told the world what to buy, what to value, what to wear, what to eat, even what to think,\u201d Grynbaum writes. But in the past two decades, the internet and social media has eroded the power of print media and democratised taste-masking. Influencers now exert greater sway than magazines.<\/p>\n<p>The company started at the turn of the 20th century when the namesake Cond\u00e9 Montrose Nast began building his stable of publications. In 1909, he made a savvy move in acquiring Vogue \u2013 a fashion magazine for old-money readership \u2013 and reoriented its message as \u201cinclusive exclusivity\u201d to the middle class. Like its later incarnation, Vogue became a major \u201cglobal tastemaker\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anna Wintour, a former Vogue editor and global chief content office of Cond\u00e9 Nast.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/27478e6a9cd8f832dcbe534927dd811b0cb34e55.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anna Wintour, a former Vogue editor and global chief content office of Cond\u00e9 Nast.Credit: AP<\/p>\n<p>Nast\u2019s publications, like House &amp; Garden and Vanity Fair, would enjoy a heyday until the 1940s. After the end of World War II, readers turned away from these periodicals to more moderate outlets such as TIME and Reader\u2019s Digest. Samuel Newhouse, a media baron making his fortune in newspapers, acquired the Cond\u00e9 Nast titles during the decline, and later split his media assets between his two children.<\/p>\n<p>Newhouse\u2019s younger son, Samuel Irving \u201cSi\u201d Jr., took the temperature of changing attitudes in 1980s America and chose to embrace the excess and opulence of the decade. Vanity Fair, GQ and Vogue would glorify a luxurious lifestyle, pushing refined taste, style and fashion in an era defined by conspicuous consumption and self-obsession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEDIAEmpire of the Elite: Inside Cond\u00e9 Nast, the media dynasty that reshaped the worldMichael M GrynbaumCoronet, $34.99 Eileen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-137288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}