Ad Age's Magazine A-List: Bon Appetit is Magazine of the Year

When Conde Nast closed Gourmet in 2009, the company staked much of its epicurean business on Bon Appetit, a staid magazine with a big circulation but little traction outside the food category. But soon enough Conde Nast took another risk, assigning the title's reinvigoration to a pair of leaders just coming up: GQ Style Editor Adam Rapoport, who became Bon Appetit's editor in chief, and Glamour Associate Publisher Pamela Drucker Mann, who took over as Bon Appetit's VP-Publisher."The feeling was it had to succeed," said Mr. Rapoport.No pressure. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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