Condé Nast's three most prestigious pubs -- Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker -- are each enjoying strong years financially during a down market.  In "The Three Musketeers of Conde Nast Ride Again," John Koblin not only parses each magazine's figures, but also discusses their legendary editors, who are all "having career years — or at least years that should go down as All-Star seasons on their Hall of Fame plaques." For instance, Ann Wintour has increased newsstand sales, a trick that should keep her from suffering the fate of her "predecessors — Diana Vreeland and Grace Mirabella — …

Nickelodeon is targeting moms aged 40 and under with "NickMom," an initiative including a Web site where moms can interact, set to debut next week, and a block of programming for next fall. "NickMom" shows may include a "Real Mom" reaiity show in the style of Bravo's Real Housewives and "Double Mom," where a comedian takes a mother's place for a day. Those programs will air from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. -- which spotlights "a shift in how women watch TV," writes Lauren A.E. Schuker. The network's research shows those are "magical hours for moms, the time when they …

The fact that the New York Times won't be replacing SVP of digital operations Martin Nisenholtz when he retires at the end of this year, is a move that's "as much a statement about the NYT‘s structure as it is about the role of digital in the company," writes Staci D. Kramer. She analyzes that strategy here, noting, for example, that "no matter how slow the progress has felt at times—or to many in the newsroom, how fast—the NYT has an integrated newsroom with an understanding that digital, while it may not always be first, is equal."

Will Dish Network go beyond satellite service to delivering programs over the Internet? The company reportedly has approached several media companies with this idea, according to Sam Schechner and Matt Jarzemsky. Why? To cut down on rising programming costs, for one reason. "In part, offering channels over the Internet could give Dish more flexibility to exclude channels whose existing contracts with Dish mandate that they appear on the satellite company's most-widely distributed tiers of service," write Schechner and Jarzemsky.

Could the online paywall that the Boston Globe put up in September have led to a circulation increase in its Sunday edition? Jon Chesto notes that a Sunday subscription provides access to all online content and is cheaper than paying for online access alone. This trend is good news for the Globe, Chesto writes:"With the heavy preponderance of ads in the Sunday edition (when compared to other days, at least), the Globe’s management has every reason to shore up Sunday sales."

  Two items about two completely different publications here, one a sort-of-traditional print pub that is distinguished by its physical size. Yes, the “Larger than Life” issue of multi-format art magazine Visionaire measures five by seven feet, has broken a Guinness World Record and features Lady Gaga as cover model. In a Q&A with the co-founder of the 20-year-old pub, Cecelia Dean,  she explains the production challenges -- as well as the symbolism -- of printing a giant publication. We were also intrigued by this discussion of a new online travel publication, Vela, featuring women’s writers only. Providing "A …

The New York Daily News laid off at least 10 editorial print staffers over the weekend, including a 43-year veteran and a longtime political reporter -- and the number of casualties could reach 15 or so, according to a source contacted by Keith J. Kelly, of the other major New York tabloid. So far it looks as though Web reporters have been spared the ax, per a directive from News owner Mort Zuckerman to "move to a 'platform agnostic' newsroom that combines print and digital operations," Kelly writes.

Condé Nast's new entertainment division is opening a Hollywood office that will soon be pitching script ideas. Dawn Ostroff, recently hired as the division's president, has been gabbing about the many "movie and TV stars” at her new company. Of course we think immediately of Vogue's Anna Wintour, who has already had her unofficial ("The Devil Wears Prada") and officially sanctioned ("The September Issue") moment on the big screen -- but we're sure there are other glossy fashionistias ready for their close-ups, fictionalized or otherwise.

National Georgraphic Channel is revamping its cast of top execs. First, after a transition period, Howard T. Owens will succeed Steve Schiffman as president of the National Geographic Channels U.S. Owens is currently a founding managing director of Reveille Productions, which produces such shows as NBC’s “The Biggest Loser." Other changes: Courtney Monroe, currently HBO executive vice president of consumer marketing and digital platforms, will join the company in the newly created post of chief marketing officer for U.S. channels. Michael Cascio, NatGeo Channel’s senior vice president of production, has been promoted to executive vice president for programming.

Group M and Kantar Media, both WPP companies, will explore the relationship between Hispanic consumers' programming and viewing behavior by integrating "the return path data from set-top boxes with other data" about product purchases, writes Jon Lafayette.  Group M will put metrics from Kantar's Shopcom with data from Kantar's DirecTView service to to "identify specific Hispanic Spanish-speaking target audiences, TV tuning by program, commercial, channel and time period, commercial measurement, contextual ad performance and TV ROI," adds Layfayette.