Kara Swisher, one of tech’s best known and most aggressive journalists, has been snapped up by Vanity Fair. Her technology-related features will appear amid the usual fashion spreads, true crime stories, and cultural commentaries.
“I love Vanity Fair and think Graydon Carter is wonderful,” Swisher said. “It’s a great place to write bigger and longer pieces.”
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Since entering the App business in May, Condé Nast is reporting 242,000 digital downloads of its eight available titles, which include Allure, Glamour, Golf Digest, GQ, Self, The New Yorker, Wired, and Vanity Fair. This number includes digital subscriptions, single copy purchases, and print subscribers who chose to add digital additions to their packages. This [...]
Tumblr, a rapidly maturing microblogging platform recently passed 250 million page views per day. There are currently at least 61 publications active on the platform, including Newsweek, GQ, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The Economist, and the most followed, Vogue. These publications use Tumblr as a behind-the-scenes look at the magazine, an outlet for voicing opinions [...]
In a move that seems somewhat down-market for Vanity Fair, the magazine is joining with CBS News in inaugurating “…a monthly survey of the American consciousness, to appear both in the magazine’s pages and occasionally on television.” One of the first findings: Wal-Mart was overwhelmingly selected as the best corporate symbol of America today. The [...]
Somebody let the cat out of the bag for Conde Nast’s Vanity Fair. The magazine supposedly had the scoop on Lance Armstrong’s professional return to cycling, but couldn’t keep the juicy secret under wraps. Somehow, cycling magazine VeloNews ran the story on Monday. In response to the leak, Vanity Fair quickly posted the interview online [...]
On September 15th, fashion brand DKNY will host a party to celebrate the anniversary of Condé Nast’s Vanity Fair magazine. The party will also highlight DKNY’s philanthropic support of NYC food bank City Harvest. Women’s Wear Daily (Aug. 21, 2008)
Google plans a large presence at both presidential nominating conventions, in part to promote the use of its Reader and other tools among political set. And Vanity Fair knows how to throw the kind of party Ben Affleck and other Hollywood honchos like to attend. It’s a match made in heaven. Also, in this story: [...]
In its latest issue, Vanity Fair pays homage to the internet in an eight-part 22-page article entitled “How the Web Was Won.” The article gives nods to internet high-rollers such as Al Gore, Amazon, Ebay, PayPal, Ning, MySpace, Friendster, and YouTube to name a few. However, grievances are already being aired about [...]