The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth

Opulent days are over at Vogue, Vanity Fair and other once-powerful glossies. Anna Wintour is giving up (some) control. Now that everyone’s a gatekeeper, why do we keep recreating their status-obsessed world?

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William Langewiesche, the ‘Steve McQueen of Journalism,’ Dies at 70

He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.

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Vanity Fair Names Mark Guiducci as Its Top Editor

Mr. Guiducci, 36, fills a role recently vacated by Radhika Jones, who led the magazine for seven years.

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Who Wants to Run Vanity Fair? Everyone? Anyone?

Radhika Jones is stepping down as editor in chief, and the search for her replacement has begun. But as the magazine industry has contracted, many of the more decadent parts of the job are long gone.

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Radhika Jones, Vanity Fair’s Top Editor, Steps Down

Ms. Jones has been editor of the gilded magazine of culture, business and politics since 2017.

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Reinaldo Herrera, Arbiter of Style for Vanity Fair, Dies at 91

Both old school and Old World and married to a celebrated fashion designer, he helped define Manhattan’s high life for many years.

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N.Y.U. College Republicans President Resigns After Remarks About Barron Trump

The leader of the national organization said that the university chapter’s president had not been authorized to speak with “Vanity Fair” for a profile in which she said President Trump’s youngest son was “sort of like an oddity on campus.”

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The New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards

The Times was honored for an investigation into extremism in Israel, coverage of the civil war in Sudan and a narrative about a Russian soldier who defected from the war in Ukraine.

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