Condé Nast Time Ends for Maurie Perl

Entertainment group, where she was spokeswoman, has yet to announce major projects

Maurie Perl, the longtime chief spokeswoman at Condé Nast, is hanging it up after 21 years at the company.

For 12 years, Perl built and oversaw the PR machine of the publishing company, reporting to parent Advance Publications Chairman Si Newhouse and then-Condé Nast CEO Steve Florio. 

Times have changed at Condé Nast, and with it, Perl's influence. Florio died in 2007, and the aging Newhouse has faded from the picture. Perl's role shrank in 2010, when HR chief Jill Bright gained oversight for PR, and the publicists for the company's magazines like Glamour and GQ started reporting directly to their titles. 

In 2011, Perl shifted

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