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This just hit our inbox. The soon to be launched Portfolio.com will not surprisingly include three blogs covering the usual. Entertainment, Fashion & Finance CONTINUE... FELIX SALMON TO WRITE FINANCE NEWS BLOG TIM SWANSON TO WRITE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS BLOG LAUREN GOLDSTEIN CROWE TO WRITE FASHION NEWS BLOGFOR PORTFOLIO.COM Felix Salmon will join Portfolio.com as finance news blogger, Tim Swanson as entertainment news blogger, and Lauren Goldstein Crowe as fashion news blogger, it was announced today by Joanne Lipman, Editor-in-Chief of Condé Nast Portfolio magazine. Their appointments are effective April 2007. As the finance news blogger for Portfolio.com, Felix Salmon will examine the personalities behind the big business deals and the power struggles that collectively drive the market. Prior to joining Portfolio.com, Mr. Salmon was a content strategist at Roubini Global Economics, where he wrote the popular finance blog, Economonitor, and was a member of the team responsible for redesigning and rebranding the rgemonitor.com website. Mr. Salmon also writes his own blog at felixsalmon.com. Previously, Mr. Salmon was a freelance journalist contributing to a variety of publications. He arrived in the United States in 1997 from England, where he worked at Euromoney magazine. He holds a master’s degree in the History of Art and Philosophy from Glasgow University and undergraduate degrees in the History of Art, Physics, and Mathematics from Dulwich College. Tim Swanson will take a look at the worlds of film, music, television, and the digital industry as the entertainment news blogger. Prior to joining Portfolio.com, Mr. Swanson worked as a staff reporter at Daily Variety and Variety before going to Premiere magazine, where he spent five years chronicling the collision of art and commerce, as well as writing and editing production stories, profiles, and business features. As chief of the West Coast bureau, he edited Premiere’s annual “Power List,” which ranks Hollywood’s most elite and influential players. In 2005, Mr. Swanson’s magazine article about the Oscar-nominated documentary Murderball led to his co-authoring Gimp, the critically-acclaimed memoir of quadriplegic rugby player Mark Zupan. Swanson’s next book, A Lifestyle Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, about HBO’s Entourage, will be published in the fall of 2007. Mr. Swanson holds a B.A. in English and Spanish literature from Willamette University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley. As the fashion news blogger for Portfolio.com, Lauren Goldstein Crowe will write a mix of commentary on breaking news, analysis of the industry, and profiles of behind-the-scenes fashion influencers. Previously, Ms. Crowe was a senior writer at TIME magazine in London, where she covered fashion. Ms. Crowe also worked on the launch of TIME’s first-ever fashion supplement, TIME Style + Design. Prior to TIME, Ms. Crowe was a writer at Fortune magazine in New York, where she covered fashion and luxury goods. Ms. Crowe has a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and undergraduate degrees in English and History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.