Get with the program, dahling

The New York Observer has a fun and interesting story by Gabriel Sherman about the merging of the somewhat rough-and-ready Fairchild Publications (Women's Wear Daily etc.) by the sleek and glossy Condé Nast Publishing (Vogue, etc.). It's an interesting case study in a clash of cultures that happens quite often with mergers of magazine publishing operations. (Certainly it happened when Telemedia