Topic: Sonny Mehta

Lineup for February 4th, 2009

How's the traffic for Tina Brown and Barry Diller's Daily Beast? According to John Koblin, "It seems the early curiosity and endless pitching on television that gave the site its big start arent enough to keep numbers up: they had ...
What could have happened is Knopf could have swallowed Doubleday whole. Would Knopf chairman Sonny Mehta, in deciding who stays and who goes, be naturally inclined to keep the people hes used to working with and saddle the Doubleday team with the ...

Knopf Ascendant: Mehta Galaxy Grows In Random Big Bang

Reading the memo from Markus Dohle last Wednesday morning about the reorganization of Random House was an exercise in restraint. , a few minutes before Mr. Dohles e-mail went out, the president of Random Houses Knopf division, Sonny Mehta, asked his senior staff ...

Lineup for December 10th, 2008

Who was left standing after Random House's reorganization? According to Leon Neyfakh, Sonny Mehta, whose Knopf now oversees several new imprints. "Whatever role Mr. Mehta had in getting what he got, the spoils reapedfrom the unspeakably lucrative John Grisham franchise to ...

Morsels From New York Magazine's Publishing Article

This week's issue of New York contains the big " Knopf's staff didn't know Mr. Dohle was coming until their fearless leader Sonny Mehtawho, according to Kachka, "is said to have shrugged comically when he found out" about Dohle's ...