Friday, May 22, 2026

Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Out After 8 Years of Declining Circulation, Ugly Covers

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Radhika Jones is out as editor of Vanity Fair.

Her reign has been marked by eight years of declining circulation and the ugliest covers in the history of magazines.

The current cover of Gwyneth Paltrow as an unwilling dominatrix is maybe the worst of the bunch so far.

Jones says she’s ready to take on new challenges. Yada yada yada.

Conde Nast lets Anna Wintour be the shadow editor of Vanity Fair. When she chooses the next person to run the show she’ll have to be careful. Vanity Fair has been reduced to an Oscar party. The online version still has strong stories, but the magazine’s influence has waned considerably.

What to do? Buy Air Mail and bring back Graydon Carter. That would at least get everyone’s attention.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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