# Steven Florio

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'''Steven T. "Steve" Florio''' (April 19, 1949 &ndash; December 27, 2007) was an American magazine publisher and conglomerateur, was CEO and President of both [Conde Nast Publications](/source/Conde_Nast_Publications) and ''[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)'', as well as publisher of ''[GQ](/source/GQ_(magazine))''.

Born in [Queens, New York](/source/Queens%2C_New_York), Florio graduated from [New York University](/source/New_York_University) with a business degree in 1972.

In the 1980s he served as publisher of ''[GQ](/source/GQ_(magazine))''; later he went to work at ''[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)''. He was named as President of Conde Nast in 1994 by owner [Si Newhouse](/source/Si_Newhouse), and CEO two years later. He stayed as President/CEO until January 2004, but remained on contract as vice chairman for three more years.

Under Florio's tenure, Conde Nast comprised ''[Vogue](/source/Vogue_(magazine))'', ''[Vanity Fair](/source/Vanity_Fair_(magazine))'', and ''[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)'', in addition to a dozen or so other titles, specializing in demographic niches.

==Death==
Florio, who had a history of [heart disease](/source/heart_disease), died Thursday, December 27, 2007, aged 58, at [New York Presbyterian Hospital](/source/New_York_Presbyterian_Hospital) of complications from an earlier heart attack.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100524150858/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3141713.ece Obituary in ''The Times'', January 7, 2008]
* https://web.archive.org/web/20071231035907/http://www.observer.com/2007/steve-florio-dead 
* https://web.archive.org/web/20071231093207/http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/28/news/newsmakers/florio.ap/index.htm
* http://www.adweek.com/aw/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003689909

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