Gourmet is Back. Who’s Next?
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In weird niche news you probably missed: Gourmet is back, and this time, it’s not under the Condé Nast umbrella - and also, not a magazine.
This story is particularly interesting to me. Not only have I been in the food media for 15-plus years, but I also work in corporate naming and branding. I have a weird amount of knowledge in the naming and trademark space, and honestly, this seems to me like, more than anything, someone from Conde’s legal team fell asleep at the wheel.
To catch you up: a group of five journalists (including alumni from Bon Appétit and the LA Times) announced they’re rebooting the Gourmet brand as a worker-owned co-op newsletter. Their lead, Sam Dean, was apparently browsing the U.S. trademark database and realized Condé Nast - the same company that abruptly “murdered” the print magazine in 2009 - let the trademark expire in 2021.
