What Keeps William Langewiesche On The Ellie Shortlist? - Posted April 30, 2008
For all you writers looking for a near surefire way to make the list of finalists for next year's National Magazine Awards, here's a tip: Try spelling your name, W-I-L-L-I-A-M L-A-N-G-E-W-I-E-S-C-H-E. For the 10th straight year in a row, the former Atlantic scribe and current Vanity Fair international correspondent has been... [FishBowlNY]

Fashion Week: Editors, Stylists in Frock Shock Over KO'ed Vanity Fair Fete - Posted February 7, 2008
What's an A-list actress to do if she's found the designer dress of her dreams for Vanity Fair's Oscar party now that the legendary bash has been cancelled? And what about the editors who rely on those indelible images from Morton's that seem to live on for eternity? Those were questions... [FishBowlNY]

Vanity Fair Gets Halberstam's Last Article - Posted July 5, 2007
When legendary journalist David Halberstam died in a car crash, the question lingered: Who would have the honor of printing Halberstam's last article? If you guessed Vanity Fair, ding ding ding — you're right. Graydon Carter had commissioned Halberstam to write a piece on Bush's efforts to secure his legacy. The... [FishBowlNY]

Print Advertising Awards Presented Digitally — With Virtual Clapping - Posted June 13, 2007
For the first time in its 26 year history, the Kelly Awards — which honors excellence in magazine print advertising — are abandoning a live lunch or dinner event in favor of — wait for it — a virtual awards ceremony: After checking in with a virtual doorman, award show hosts Nina... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Forget Michael Caine — It's Star Jones! - Posted June 6, 2007
Imagine our disappointment when we heard that had we chosen to come by on Monday, we'd have been sipping Bloody Marys at the bar with Claire Danes and Natasha Richardson. Luckily, there were enough faces in today's crowd from filmdom, fashion and, of course, publishing to satisfy our appetite for observing... [FishBowlNY]

Inside The Time 100 Party - Posted May 9, 2007
America Ferrera and John Mayer It's arguably the most exclusive magazine party of the year. (Graydon Carter's Vanity's Fair Oscar party perhaps being the other.) John Edwards mingled with John Mayer. Sir Richard Branson (just back from dogsledding in Alaska) commandeered the corner of the bar like a Virgin spaceship, and allowed... [FishBowlNY]

Citysearch Launches Video - Posted May 3, 2007
'This Cobb salad is damn good! How do I know? I own the restaurant' Citysearch, the pioneering local entertainment guide that has in recent been overshadowed by less comprehensive but qualitatively selective things like Flavorpill, Time Out New York and LX.TV, just launched an overhaul with — yes — video. So far,... [FishBowlNY]

Video: Inside The Ellies - Posted May 2, 2007
While we were busy liveblogging the blingy National Magazine Awards last night, our Brooklyn-based videographer Kelly Loudenberg was there shooting the revelry. Watch Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner attack the Bush administration ("... killing innocent people for some fantasy war, denying global warming exists and burning more f*cking fossil fuels than... [FishBowlNY]

Ellies 2007: The Liveblog - Posted May 1, 2007
After winning in five of seven nominated categories, New York editor-in-chief Adam Moss juggles his way up to the winners' circle FishbowlNY will be liveblogging tonight's National Magazine Awards — the so-called Ellies — from the blingy confines of at Jazz @ Lincoln Center. Refresh FishbowlNY all night for the latest winners,... [FishBowlNY]

Ellies 2007: Handicapping The Races - Posted May 1, 2007
New York's Adam Moss [left] and the New Yorker's David Remnick [right] flank Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner at the 2006 National Magazine Awards Counting down the hours to tonight's National Magazine Awards in New York (FishbowlNY will be there, liveblogging). It's about time to reveal our bracket-busting picks for the 2007 Ellies... [FishBowlNY]

Air America | Sumner Redstone | Graydon Carter | TMZ | Today | Reader's Digest Raids Condé Nast | Bids Due For Dennis - Posted March 14, 2007
Why Graydon Carter: Wants a celebrity clubhouse on Waverly. [NYO] Inside Air America's: Money troubles. [Village Voice] Reader's Digest's Mary Berner: Poaches Grimes from Condé Nast. [WWD] TMZ: Coming to D.C. [WaPo] Sumner Redstone: To take pay cut. [Bloomberg via LAT] Today: Still on top without Katie. [Page Six] Bids... [FishBowlNY]

Oscar-Winning Producer Disses Graydon Carter's Chicago 10 - Posted March 14, 2007
Carter's Chicago 10: Good cast makes 'repetitive, noisy' movie John Battsek, Oscar-winning producer of One Day In September, on his 2007 Sundance experience, via Monocle: The consensus on the opening film, Chicago 10, produced by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, is that it wasn't nearly as good as it could or should have... [FishBowlNY]

Graydon Carter's 'Natural' Roast | SI Witholds Swimsuit Issue From Schools | Elle | Slain NYT Reporter's Family Wants Reform | WSJ Deals With Diller | Grilly Head Of Philly - Posted March 9, 2007
Time Inc.: Witholds Sport Illustrated's swimsuit issue from libraries, schools. [LAT] Graydon Carter: Roasted at NRDC gala. [Daily News] Elle: Publishes surprisingly thorough profile of New York Times ME Jill Abramson. [WWD] Murdered NYT Journo's Family: Wants emergency response reform, not money. [Washington Post] What Times' Kurt Eichenwald Bought: For... [FishBowlNY]

Carter On Bono Editing Vanity Fair: 'It Won't Be Preachy' - Posted March 7, 2007
An update on Graydon Carter and Vanity Fair's enabling of Bono's guest-editing addiction: Bono will be the magazine's first-ever guest editor. Did not know that. Carter: "It won't be preachy. The articles won't be policy papers. It will be a very nuanced look at Africa." EARLIER: Leibovitz Shoots Sopranos For April Vanity... [FishBowlNY]

Reviewing Good's Media Issue Like A Rock Record - Posted February 23, 2007
Good, the Los Angeles-based startup for "people who give a damn," has made it to its 3rd issue, and already has the gumption (nay, balls) to put out a "media issue." They seem to have a fan in Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter, who contributes a foreword-style essay on his favorite... [FishBowlNY]

Brian Williams Takes Anti-Britney-Anna Stance | Graydon's Oscar Party | Obama In L.A. - Posted February 21, 2007
Obama: And moguls in L.A. [Pop Matters] The Power of Anna: Transcends celebrity weeklies' deadlines. [WWD] Grey's Anatomy Spin-off: Reportedly in works at ABC. [WSJ via ETP] Libby Trial: Winds down, jury deliberates. [Bloomberg] Condé Nast's Photo-blographer Schuman: Heir to Bill Cunningham's throne? [NYO] New York 'Internet Addict': Sues over... [FishBowlNY]

Is Borat Too Big For Shared Vanity Fair Cover? - Posted February 8, 2007
Apparently. According to Nikke Finke, Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller and Jack Black were supposed to don the cover of Vanity Fair's annual Hollywood issue, but Cohen and Ferrell's manager, Jimmy Miller, reportedly nixed the deal, contending his clients were too big for a shared cover. Owen Wilson and... [FishBowlNY]

Mag Lifetime Achievement Awards: Tom Ryder Likes To Eat, And Lewis Lapham's 'A Snob' - Posted February 1, 2007
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO No one can out-eat Tom Ryder, and Liz Smith has never slept with Lewis Lapham, though she wouldn't exactly mind. Those were just two of the themes to surface earlier today during the Magazine Lifetime Achievement Awards luncheon at Gotham Hall feting Ryder — outgoing CEO of Reader's Digest and owner... [FishBowlNY]

Obama | Judy Miller | Graydon Carter | David Letterman | Ann Moore: Time Inc. Needs More Failures | New York Mag To Move Downtown? | Wallpaper Eyes Details Editor - Posted January 31, 2007
Obama: Putting "deep freeze" on Fox News reporters? [Washington Post's Sleuth] Judy Miller: Testifies at Libby trial. [WSJ] Graydon Carter: Film untouched by buyers at Sundance. [Page Six] New York Mag: To move downtown? [WWD] Wallpaper: Eying Details editor Dan Peres to fill top spot. [WWD] Fashion Mags: Spring previews.... [FishBowlNY]

Graydon Carter's Bush Bashing Has Yet To 'Run Its Course' - Posted January 31, 2007
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is still political. The Columbia Journalism Review reviews Carter's 2004 pledge to mediabistro.com that his involvement in bashing the Bush administration in the form of a monthly editor's letter had "probably run its course": David Hirschman's question for a 2004 Media Bistro article was the same one reporters... [FishBowlNY]

Dave Zinczenko Defends Graydon Carter's Waverly Inn After Post Critic's Scathing Review - Posted January 11, 2007
Yesterday's filleting of Graydon Carter's Waverly Inn by New York Post food critic Steve Cuozzo ... THE other night at Waverly Inn & Garden, the world's most crowded "not open yet" restaurant, the waiter didn't know if truffles with $55 macaroni-and-cheese were black or white. Is this any way to launch the... [FishBowlNY]