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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTech journalist Karl Bode: Bezos rumored to be buying Conde Nast, which would include Vogue, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker,
GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest, and Ars Technica.Wired and Teen Vogue have done some of the best reporting in the Trump era. Ars Technica one of a handful of good remaining tech pubs.
Bezos rumored to be buying Condé Nast, which would include Vogue, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest, and Ars Technica.
— Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) 2025-07-11T13:00:20.340Z
Wired and Teen Vogue have done some of the best reporting in the Trump era. Ars Technica one of a handful of good remaining tech pubs.
Some news stories have treated this as a "wedding gift" so his unrecognizably remodeled wife can get magazine covers. But the New Yorker, Wired and Ars Technica in particular are magazines a tech lord would want to control.
BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)Johonny
(26,629 posts)no_hypocrisy
(55,390 posts)FirstLight
(15,771 posts)...and Vanity Fair is a good one too.
Though I wonder why Bezos wants to get control of the 'hollywood woke' media...oh yeahhhhh, to get rid of it!
electric_blue68
(27,348 posts)😬
newdeal2
(5,620 posts)Not picked up by any serious business news sources.
The only reason I could partially believe it is he wants to buy Vogue and put Melania on the cover to curry favor with Trump.
Oneironaut
(6,322 posts)This is why a free society and billionaires are not compatible with each other.
cayugafalls
(5,984 posts)articles written by publications whose historical owners have all done the bidding of Kings.
A long time ago, some DUer posted the family tree of owners and traced Cinderella Nast it back to Royal Criers.
Im gonna try and find it and post a follow up.
applegrove
(133,124 posts)
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