Graydon Carter Stepping Down as Vanity Fair Editor

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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.

Read more: http://variety.com/2017/film/news/graydon-carter-stepping-down-as-vanity-fair-editor-1202550066/

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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

[3catwoman3]

1. Graydon Carter is the person who coined the phrase, "short-fingered vulgarian."

For which we owe him eternal thanks - it is a great turn of phrase.

[luvtheGWN]

6. Aaah, just another

wickedly clever Canuck!

[TeamPooka]

2. He was an anti-Trumper 30 years ago. He will be missed.

[not fooled]

3. dump will never

live it down. Never escape it. No matter how much--decades later--he rants about his finger size.

Obviously the insult still rankles. Rattles around in the diseased, hollow recesses of his brain. As long as he lives!

Classic!!

[redstatebluegirl]

4. Oh my! My subscription is up soon, need to see if it changes direction before I send in my money.

Love Vanity Fair! Have been subscribing for over 30 years.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. LOVED Spy magazine back in the day. . .

Here's to Graydon Carter

[BeyondGeography]

8. +1

It was an often hilarious and always effective dagger aimed at the heart of uber-dreary Reagan-era conformity. Will always admire Carter for it.

[jmowreader]

7. He hasn't gotten over it either

Trump still sends him photos of DT with the hands circled.

[Laffy Kat]

9. Whoa. End of an era.

I've subscribed for years. Although I'm not crazy about all the high-fashion features/ads, it's still some of the best journalism in publication, IMHO.