Graydon Carter Stepping Down as Vanity Fair Editor [View all]
Source: Variety
Graydon Carter Stepping Down as Vanity Fair Editor
Senior Film and Media Editor
@BrentALang
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 09:15AM PT
Graydon Carter is ending his 25-year run atop the masthead of Vanity Fair.
The magazine editor said he will step down from the glossy publication in December and will oversee the planning of the 2018 edition of magazines Hollywood Issue. A successor was not announced, but his exit leaves one of the most coveted jobs in journalism open its a gig that commands a lavish expense account, seven-figure salary, and town car.
Under Carter, Vanity Fair offered an arresting mixture of celebrity profiles on the likes of George Clooney and Angelina Jolie (often shot in full glamour mode by Annie Leibovitz), with meatier examinations of foreign hotspots and Beltway intrigue. There were also plenty of nostalgic looks at old Hollywood, histories of elite one-percent playgrounds from Saint-Tropez to Yales Skull & Bones club, and profiles of literary lions such as William F. Buckley and William Styron. It was a monthly potpourri of cultural tastes, catering to both the high and the low.
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Carter, with his unruly tufts of white hair, became something of a celebrity himself, emerging as one of the most recognizable media figures in the world. It was an odd position for someone who first came to fame lampooning the Fourth Estate and power brokers such as Donald Trump as the co-founder of Spy magazine. He also served as the editor of The New York Observer before coming to Vanity Fair and taking the reins from Tina Brown in 1992.
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Why is this LBN? Graydon Carter is the person who coined the phrase "short-fingered vulgarian," in reference to you-know-who.
HOW DONALD TRUMP BECAME THE SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIAN
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/how-donald-trump-became-the-short-fingered-vulgarian
Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen reflect on the origin story of a cultural and political phenomenon.
BY JON KELLY
MARCH 7, 2016 1:30 PM
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