1. TASK 5 Fact File
By: Jonathan Newton
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2. Vanity Fair
Basic information
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Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture,
fashion, and current affairs published by
Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has
been published since 1983 and there have
been editions for four European countries
as well as the U.S. edition.

3. Who is the editor
 The editor is Graydon
Carter
 Edward Graydon Carter
(born 14 July 1949) is a
Canadian-born American
journalist and is the editor of
Vanity Fair since 1992. He
also co-founded, with Kurt
Andersen and Tom Phillips,
the satirical monthly
magazine Spy in 1986.
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4. Who publishes Vanity Fair
 Condé Nast Publications
 It publishes over 26 other magazines as well
 It was founded in 1909
 Its headquarter are in New York in the Condé Nast building
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5. Task 5: Magazine Fact file
 Now that you have you magazine you are going to create a
fact file on it. Include:
 Do they use a certain type of models
 What issues/stories do they usually cover
 Any other facts you find out

6. When was it first published
 It was first published in 1983
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This is one of the first
issues

7. When is it released
 It is released once a month, and always has been
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A list of all addition in
2000
January March
February April May June

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A list of all addition in 2000
continued
July August September October November December
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9. Who is the target audience
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TOTAL AUDIENCE
6,644,000
Median Age
42.3
Gender - Male/Female
23% / 77%
Theses statistics are from the
media kit on the Vanity Fair website
http://www.condenast.com/brands/v
anity-fair/media-kit/print
From these statistics I can see
that, this magazine is aimed at
middle aged woman

10. Models Vanity Fair use
 They do not use any specific model by name regular but they
do use a lot of female within and on the covers of there
magazines and tend to exploited the female body.
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11. What issues/stories do they
usually cover
 Vanity Fair are know for covering these subjects:
 Fashion
 Movies
 Music
 Female matters
 Love and relationships
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