A former star of Vanity Fair Magazine says he earned half a million dollars a year to write only three stories about Condé Nast publication during “Good Day” under then Graydon Carter.
Bryan Burrough, a journalist and investigator, who is best known for the co-writing of the seminal book “Barbares at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabsico”, said he cost only six months abroad to make 10,000 words for Vanity Fair, which pays more than $ 166,000 for the article.
“For twenty -five years, I was contracted to produce three articles a year, those long ones, usually ten thousand words,” wrote Burrough, who worked in Vanity Fair from 1992 to around 2017, wrote in the latest Yale Review edition.
“For this, my peak salary was $ 498,141. This is not a mistake – $ 498,141, or more than $ 166,000 per story.”
Burrough added that $ 166,000 is a “good progress for a whole book”.
“Yes, I realized it was embarrassing. I got it with a fuss,” he wrote.
Had it not been enough, Burrough detailed lucrative opportunities that came out when his items were optional by Hollywood Studios, which paid between $ 15,000 and $ 25,000.
Some of the offers even exceeded six figures.
“Everyone third or fourth article I wrote ended up optional for movies,” Burrough wrote.
The writer described a surrealist scene watching Robert de Niro in a set film “As he reads your words again for you” after a studio considered the adaptation of one of his stories in a movie.
In the December 1999 edition of Vanity Fair, Burrough wrote a story entitled “Obsession Miranda”, which told Tale of Miranda Grosvenor.
Miranda Grosvenor was the nickname of Whitney Walton, a Baton Rouge social worker who amazed dozens of celebrities, among them De Niro and Warren Beatty, in the 1980s and 90s through seductive, anonymous phone calls – never fulfilling them personally.
Its true identity was discovered by Burrough, turning it into an early example of real life weights before the Internet era.
He wrote that “unfortunately, that adaptation … never made it the past development.”
Burrough mourned the fact that “nowadays … such rainfall is a distant memory.”
“Today, for a rare magazine article, I’m lucky to get two dollars a word, or $ 20,000 for the same story ten thousand words,” he wrote, adding: don’t even ask what [The Yale Review is] paying me for this part. ”
Burrough wrote that his Vanity Fair concert included other vibrancy such as the morning that was spent on the company, as well as staying in five -star hotels, luxury as Four Season in Sydney and Claridge in London.
He described other benefits that came with employees at Condé Nast including “Dinner Dinner in someone’s home [that] can take care of the company’s currency ”as well as“ city cars [that] The celebrities stayed ready to shake you everywhere. “
“The editors received no interesting loans to buy new homes,” according to Burrough.
The company “even covered the costs of the movement,” the author wrote.
“There was an ‘eyebrow lady’ who insisted on twees everyone’s browsing.”
Burrough’s article was a summary of Carter’s future memories, “when the continuation was good: the adventures of an editor during the latest era of the golden magazine magazines,” which goes on sale March 25th.
Memoir touches darker moments, including office domestic policy and Carter’s eventual conflict with Condé Nast management on structural changes imposed by rival editor Anna Wintoour.
Carter’s departure in 2017 symbolized the end of an era, which coincides with digital transformation and the decline in printed income.
Burrough, now distanced from the magazine’s writing, reflected without grief, expressing gratitude for the opportunities he liked.
“I understood the gift I was given to me,” he wrote.
“We had a great run. In the missing world of American magazines, I suspect there will never be another like her.”
The post has requested comment from Carter and Condé Nast.
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