MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Graydon Carter steals journos from Portfolio and The Atlantic , while two new magazines launch and everyone wants out at the Newark Star-Ledger . Revolving Door Newsletter: 10.10.08 Revolving Door Listings | Archive Tell Us Your News! New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The Vanity Fair editor-in-chief hired Lion's Den author Michael Lewis away from New York Times Magazine and, more cruelly, fellow Condé Nast publication Portfolio . Ouch. [ Observer ]
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
It was something of a coup when Vanity Fair, in May, did what its Condé Nast sibling Portfolio couldn't and poached Fortune's winsome star writer Bethany McLean. If Portfolio's uncertain editor...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Brit outsider Toby Young has made a career out of getting fired from Vanity Fair, among other things. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is now a movie—take that, Graydon Carter. A...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter sounds positively exasperated that Toby Young is still stuck—gum-like—to his shoe. A decade after the British hack's disastrous six-month stint at the Conde Nast...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Sunday's Los Angeles Times ran a short profile to remind you that the film version of Toby Young 's bestselling 2001 memoir, How To Lose Friends & Alienate People , will be released this Friday. Starring Simon Pegg as "Sidney Young," the movie seems to be a loosely fictionailized version of Mr. Young's failed tenure as a contributing editor at Graydon Carter 's Vanity Fair (veiled as Clayton Harding's...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Los Angeles Times Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is surprised by Tony Young 's ability to do so much -- a book, a one-man show, and a movie -- with his undistinguished six-month stint at the magazine. "I can only compare it with a brief one-night stand that results in octuplets," says Carter. "Those who can't teach, write. Those who can't write, write about themselves -- in Toby's case, endlessly."...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
You can't see it, but he's just wet himself. Photo: Getty Images Yesterday's CBS News Sunday Morning profile of Graydon Carter produced an interesting, vaguely humble take on a man who celebrates hubris in every aspect of his public life. We didn't watch it, of course (we had to Google the name of CBS's weekend morning show), but a co-worker forwarded over the online recap. When one is contemplating...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
"CBS Sunday Morning" | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Graydon Carter claims he's a shy person. "I usually don't speak until spoken to. You know, I'm very Canadian. And Canadians are ... not forceful people. I had to sort of train myself to be a host [at the annual Vanity Fair Oscars party]. I'd have a couple of drinks before everybody got there." CARTER CLAIMS: "I actually don't know how magazines are produced,...
The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Last night, Charlie Rose welcomed Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter to his PBS talk show to talk about his magazine's 25th anniversary issue and companion book . After an extremely enthusiastic introduction ( inside voice, please, Charlie! ), the two cover a lot of ground from the journalism to art and photography to documentaries to his new baby to what movie is Condé Nast chairman Si Newhouse's...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Photo: Getty Images With the news today that the new Greenwich Village High School is backed by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter , we got to thinking. Has anyone else noticed that Graydon is creating his own little city-state right underneath our noses? It secretly seeps through the very ground we walk on and air we breathe! We began suspecting this when we watched this "joke" video on VF.com , in...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
It's one thing for Graydon Carter to deem you worthy of, say, a 7 pm reservation at his 70-seat Waverly Inn. But if you really want an emblem of the Vanity Fair editor's approval, try getting your...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
'Kate Winslet' by Annie Leibovitz, 1998 © Annie Leibovitz/Contact Press Images FIRST POSTED SEPTEMBER 18, 2008 'Vanity Fair Portraits: A Century of Iconic Images' by Graydon Carter and…
Eater (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Above we have an image from Vanity Fair's Fall Culture Guide (here, click "I'll Take Manhattan"). Writers classify the restaurants in the Momofuku empire in a number of ways, but we're surprised Graydon Carter took this route. Our tipster...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Vanity Fair editor and restaurateur Graydon Carter has admitted what many have long suspected (hoped'): There is nothing that special about his ultra-exclusive Waverly Inn, the design for which was apparently "shamelessly" and "ruthlessly" borrowed from other places. [ P6 ] Leonardo DiCaprio is off-again with Israeli model Bar Refaeli . [ NYDN ] During the filming of Righteous Kill , Robert DeNiro...
