VF Hive editor Jon Kelly begins his conversation with Graydon asking how he got his start at Vanity Fair. They discuss Carter's early days at Spy magazine and The New York Observer, and the initial offer from S.I. Newhouse to come to Vanity Fair.
Carter describes the challenges he faced in the first two years at the magazine, and how he worked to align with the staff.
He reveals the techniques he used to reinvent the magazine, despite the lack of any real plan out the outset. Carter also talks about the origins of Vanity's Fair's famous Oscar parties, as well as the magazine's iconic Hollywood issue. He describes how the parties grew over the years, and how they and the Hollywood issue became embedded in the culture.
The famous tagline is returning after a six-year hiatus to take advantage of a surge in milk sales during the coronavirus pandemic that industry watchers say is the result of more consumers staying home.
Jamal Henderson, chief content officer at the SpringHill Company, says Hollywood has more work to do when it comes to diversity. The producer, actor, and executive also emphasized artists bringing their best to help make it happen.
New York’s attorney general is suing the National Rifle Association, seeking to put the powerful gun advocacy organization out of business over allegations that high-ranking executives diverted millions of dollars for personal benefit.
Checkpoints in NYC, mansion parties in L.A., and the world's worst coronavirus outbreak in between. What went wrong in Beirut? Plus, the latest on the presidential race and why everyone, even Michelle Obama, is feeling bummed right now.
FBI agents including a SWAT team have raided the home of YouTube star Jake Paul.
U.S. testing for the coronavirus is dropping even as infections remain high and the death toll rises by more than 1,000 a day.
New data from online video analytics company Conviva showed overall streaming and connected device viewership was up 63 percent globally during the second quarter of 2020 compared to the same time last year.
The Lebanese government says it is putting an unspecified number of Beirut port officials under house arrest pending an investigation into how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate came to be stored at the port for years.
A catastrophe in a major Middle Eastern city: the latest on the twin blasts that rocked Beirut. Plus, Isaias leaves a wide swath of damage, knocking out power along the East Coast (including at Jill's). And Disney throws in the towel on its tentpole movie event of the summer.
A huge explosion rocked Beirut, inflicting injuries and damaging buildings in a large radius around the city's port.
