Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter on Covers, Caitlyn and Trump

Editor of the Year perfects union of digital and print

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To say it's a magazine cover that made history doesn't quite cut it. We're talking about a project so massive, so secretive that only eight people inside publisher Condé Nast knew about it and a security firm was enlisted to keep it under wraps. The cover and accompanying story would end up generating not only record-breaking newsstand sales and Web traffic but also have the whole planet, even the president of the United States, talking about it.

Vanity Fair's July issue, introducing the former Olympic champion Bruce Jenner as Caitlyn Jenner, wasn't just your garden-variety media spectacle.

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