Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Radhika Jones, the editor of Vanity Fair, talks with HuffPost's Lydia Polgreen about the role of the magazine and its famous New Establishment list in the digital age. In this episode: (02:17) Graydon Carter and Tina Brown; (05:40) How Jones became editor in chief; (07:12) Her background and becoming a “magazine junkie”; (11:42) Mixing the highbrow and lowbrow; (15:52) Putting Lena Waithe on the cover; (20:16) The fragmentation of and opportunities for magazines online; (25:06) The business of making magazines; (30:46) What Jones has learned from shifting to an online paywall; (32:41) Vanity Fair’s place in the year of both #MeToo and Black Panther; (35:00) The 2018 New Establishment List Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.3	This is Recode Media from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:44.1	I'm Lydia Polgreen in for Peter Kafka.
0:46.4	I'm the editor-in-chief of HuffPost, but I'm here at the Vox Media Studios today in New York City.
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1:01.2	Today, I'm really excited to be in the studio with Radica Jones, the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair.
1:06.6	Radica, welcome to Recode Media. Thank you, Lydia. It's great to be here.
1:11.1	So, you have been the editor of Vanity Fair for how long now?
1:16.8	It's been about nine months.
1:18.2	Nine months, long enough to make a baby.
1:20.1	Mm-hmm.
1:20.8	Mm-hmm.
1:21.3	Does it feel like a baby has been born?
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