Vanity Fair’s longtime editor Graydon Carter announced he is stepping down from the magazine in December.
“I want to leave while the magazine is on top,” Carter told The New York Times on Thursday. “I want to leave while it’s in vibrant shape, both in the digital realm and the print realm. And I wanted to have a third act — and I thought, time is precious.”
Carter was editor of the pop culture, current affairs and fashion monthly magazine for the last 25 years.
{mosads}The 68-year-old Canadian journalist said he didn’t know who would replace him at Vanity Fair, which is owned by media giant Conde Nast and boasts a circulation of roughly 1.2 million. The Times broached Adam Moss of New York magazine and Janice Min of The Hollywood Reporter as top contenders.
Carter often sparred with Donald Trump both as a candidate and as president on social media.
“He’s tweeted about me 42 times, all in the negative,” Carter told the New York Times. “So I blew up all the tweets and I framed them all. They’re all on a wall — this is the only wall Trump’s built — outside my office. There’s a space left for one more tweet to complete the bottom line. So if he does, I’m just going to call our framer, and say we need one more.”
Carter also worked on the film side, serving as an executive producer and winning an Emmy Award for “9/11,” a 2002 film that aired on CBS about the September 11 terrorist attacks.
“I’m now eager to try out this ‘third act’ thing that my contemporaries have been telling me about, and I figure I’d better get a jump on it.”