How a Handful of Celebs Has Dominated the Tabloids; A Major Washington Post Shake-up Looms; and More

Plus: The Existential Threat to Newspapers View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks December 22, 2020   Vanity Fair's Most Read Stories of the Year From Jared Kushner to Rudy Giuliani and Ghislaine Maxwell to Baby Yoda, a selection of our biggest stories of 2020. R E A D  M O R E »   Review: Shonda Rhimes's Bridgerton Is Delightful Trash The first Shondaland show for Netflix is frothy, silly escapism—the perfect Christmas offering for a craptastic year. R E A D  M O R E »   Marty Baron's Exit Is Now a Question of "When, Not If" Sources insist The Washington Post hasn't officially started the search for a new leader, but speculation is already rampant about who might succeed the editor who oversaw its stunning revival. R E A D  M O R E »   Why a Handful of Celebrities Dominated the Tabloids in 2020 With fewer people to photograph, almost every star was bound to get some traction just for stepping outside—and some say the stars have been cooperating to make it happen. R E A D  M O R E »   The Feces-Flinging Stage of Trump's Election "Fraud" Fight Arrives Anyone refusing to go along with his attempted coup is getting their head ripped off and their hearing destroyed by the high-pitched screams, according to reports. R E A D  M O R E »   A Year Spent Capturing Protests, Isolation, and Jubilation From the streets of New York City during the George Floyd protests to Zoom portrait sessions with his friends, photographer Malike Sidibe reframed everything about his work in 2020. R E A D  M O R E »   From the Archive: Two Rivals, One Truth Breaking story after story, two great American newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, are resurgent, with record readerships. One has greater global reach and fifth-generation family ownership; the other has Jeff Bezos as its deep-pocketed proprietor and a technological advantage. Examining their strategies, their fiercely competitive leaders, and the Trump effect, in 2017 James Warren concluded that both still faced an existential foe. R E A D  M O R E » Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. Sign Up Now     This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.