Found: A Publishing Optimist!
by Peter Kafka
Posted on October 28, 2008 at 5:00 PM PT
Last year MediaMemo made some intemperate comments about paidContent’s “Future Of Business Media” conference.
But I am happy to say that I don’t have any complaints about this year’s event. (OK, I do–the Wi-Fi’s been a bit spotty.)
But lots of good speakers and thoughtful questions. I look forward to checking out Rafat Ali’s paidContent reporting to catch up on the sessions I missed from this morning.
But I can tell you about an amazing event I saw this afternoon–an optimistic magazine publishing executive, who didn’t appear visibly drunk or otherwise intoxicated.
Here’s the quote, in its entirety, from Condé Nast publisher David Carey, who was part of a panel on business magazines: “We’ve talked to a lot of clients who are surprisingly bullish about their ad spend next year.”
“Who’s that”? Forbes.com publisher Jim Spanfeller immediately asked. But David just smiled.
Remind me to follow up with Carey on that next spring.
