The company acquiring the bimonthly fashion title, which also owns Surface and Watch Journal, named Sara Moonves, the current style director, as W’s next editor in chief. Source: NYT > Business – Marc Tracy
2 Big Book and Magazine Printers Face Suit to Block Their Merger
The U.S. Justice Department is suing to stop the proposed $1.4 billion deal between Quad/Graphics and LSC Communications on antitrust grounds. Source: NYT > Business – Marc Tracy
With Interest: The Week in Business: A Facial Recognition Ban, and Trade War Blues
Also: Worries about another war, and the continuing crisis at Boeing. Source: NYT > Business – ZACH WICHTER
Condé Nast Sells Golf Digest to Discovery Inc.
After putting three magazines up for sale last year, the publisher strikes a deal said to be worth $35 million. The longtime Golf Digest editor Jerry Tarde will stay. Source: NYT > Business – MARC TRACY
Condé Nast Selects a Deal-Making Tech Executive as Its New Chief
The once-cushy publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair chose Roger J. Lynch, formerly of Pandora, to steer it through a challenging time. Source: NYT > Business – EDMUND LEE
Media Companies Take a Big Gamble on Apple
Executives have been burned by their previous dealings with big tech companies. But Apple’s promise of a billion devices worldwide was too good to pass up. Even for Rupert Murdoch. Source: NYT > Business – EDMUND LEE