Cuts Continue in Mags Biz With CN, Hachette, Alpha in Play

The slow drip of magazine headcount cuts goes on as publishers slog through another lean year in ad spending.
 
Condé Nast’s Media Group this past week let go roughly 20 people or about 15 percent of its 135-person staff. Magazines’ corporate sales departments have had less going on with marketers pulling back on big-scale, cross-platform deals.
 
Other, smaller staff reductions and departures have continued, with less fanfare. Condé Nast’s digital sales arm lost a high-level executive when Dee Salomon, senior vp, sales and marketing at CondéNet, left after a reorg at that unit in February.