Spring Magazines: Editor of the Year - Graydon Carter

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In a media world littered with synergistic failures, Graydon Carter, 53, has become a model editor for the 21st century. And he has done so at a general-interest magazine, no less, a publishing genre that in recent years had been written off in favor of more defined, more vertical offerings. Under his watch, Vanity Fair has remained a bastion of solid storytelling and lush portraits, expertly blended. In every issue there is something for those interested in popular culture, politics and business: Vanity Fair’s February 2002 cover included an impressive gathering of President Bush’s national security team, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice; August chronicled the self-immolation of fallen superagent Michael Ovitz in a piece by Bryan Burrough; and in the September issue, Gail Sheehy profiled a year in the lives of 9/11 widows from...

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