Purdum Leaves NYT for Vanity Fair
The one and only Todd S. Purdum, who just this week was named one of the city’s top 50 journalists, has decided to leave the paper for the magazine world, landing the plum position of national editor at Vanity Fair.
“Todd is one of the paper’s most gifted journalists, and finest colleagues. We can fill his cozy corner in the back of the bureau, but we can’t replace Todd,” bureau chief Philip Taubman wrote to colleagues yesterday.
“Few reporters in the long history of The Times have matched the radiance of his writing, his unerring knack for coming up with just the right anecdotes to launch and tell a story and his command of so many journalistic forms, including news, portraiture, analysis, scene, essay, narrative and history. Todd is the master of all these arts. And he also happens to be one of the nicest, most collegial people in our profession. It’s impossible to keep count of the papers that have been graced by his stories and the days that have been made better and more productive by his presence.”
NYT readers need not fret immediately, though, Purdum is sticking around through the end of year. And Vanity Fair subscriptions are buy one get one free right now.
> Washingtonian’s citation for Purdum: ” Purdum’s well-written explanations and unique looks at Washington life still shine even in an editor’s paper like the Times.”
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