Hampton Style - September 12, 2008

Hampton Style - September 12, 2008

Broadcast News, Magazines, Newspapers,
and the Internet: You Are Who You Heed

If any industry rules and defines the Hamptons, it is media-in all of its glossy incarnations. From the erudite talking-heads delivering our nightly news, to the hardscrabble newspaper journalists to the stiletto-wearing polished magazine editors, life on the East End is influenced by their presence and by the way they package and telegraph our community to the rest of the world. It's an impressive list-we claim more than our fair share of industry bigwigs.

Howard Stern photographed by F. Scott Schafer/Corbis Outline.
All small portraits by Patrick McMullen.

Howard Stern

John McCain, you now have a very unexpected supporter in radio host Howard Stern. The longtime Democrat disavowed his party a month ago when two Democrats in the Federal Communications Commission panel tried to block the merger of XM and Sirius, the latter of which has served as home to Stern's show for the past two and a half years. The protracted struggle surrounding the satellite radio stations lasted 16 months and included nearly $20 million in fines for FCC violations. Perhaps Stern thought his political comrades in arms should have cut his parent company some slack. As they did not, he is now calling them "communists" and referring to their tactics as "gangsterism." "I don't care if God becomes a Democrat," says Stern, "I vow to never vote for a Democrat again." Keep in mind, this is the guy who told us he would be getting married last month on the beach in front of his house in Southampton. We're holding our breath on both fronts.

Dan Abrams
General Manager
MSNBC, and Chief Legal Correspondent, NBC and MSNBC

Serena Altschul
Contributing Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning

Carolyn Tate Angel
Shopping Editor, W

Joe Armstrong
Media consultant

Amy Taran Astley
Editor
Teen Vogue

Ken Auletta
Media columnist
The New Yorker

Alex Badia
Fashion Director, DNR

Martin N. Bandier
Chairman and CEO, Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Fabien Baron
Editorial Director of Interview, Founder of Baron & Baron

Maria Bartiromo
Business reporter, CNBC

Jonathan Becker
Contributing photographerVanity Fair and Vogue

Joy Behar
Co-host, The View

Gilles Bensimon
Photographer and Creative Manager, Elle

Kelly Killoren Bensimon
Freelance style writer

Carl Bernstein
Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair

Jacob Bernstein
Features writer
W and WWD

Marilyn Berger
Reporter
The New York Times

Kate Betts
Editor, Style & Design, Time

Elisabeth Biondi
Visuals Editor
The New Yorker

Jason Binn
Founder and CEO
Niche Media

Chris Bollen
Editor-In-Chief, Interview

Ben Bradlee
Vice President at Large
The Washington Post

James Brady
Columnist
Forbes.com

Peter Brant
Chairman and CEO
Brant-Allen Industries

Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Chairman and CEO, Warner Music Group

Laura Brown
Articles/Special Projects Director, Harper's Bazaar

Tina Brown
Founder of
thedailybest.com

Cricket Burns
Fashion Director, Quest

Jess Cagle
Executive Editor, People

Julia Chaplin
Contributor, The New York Times

Joyce Chang
Features Editor, People Style Watch

Michael Clinton
EVP, Chief Marketing Officer and Publishing Director, Hearst Magazines

Grace Coddington
Creative Director, Vogue

Richard Cohen
Columnist
The Washington Post

Bob Colacello
Special correspondent
Vanity Fair

David Patrick Columbia
Editor-in-Chief
Quest and New York Social Diary

Jenny Conant
Journalist

Joan Ganz Cooney
Founder
Children's Television Workshop

Anderson Cooper
Anchor, Anderson Cooper 360*

Katie Couric
Anchor and Managing Editor CBS Evening News; Correspondent, 60 Minutes

Chris Cuomo
Anchor, ABC's Primetime and Good Morning America

Tina Brown

Tina Brown photographed by Harry Borden/Corbis Outline.

The Clinton Chronicles is Tina Brown's following act to the success of her book on that other powerful blonde, Princess Diana. While Hillary's star may be falling, the former editor of Vanity Fair, Tatler, Talk and the New Yorker is working at breakneck speed to ensure that hers never does. The Daily Beast is a website she is launching this fall with the help of her friend media titan Barry Diller. Somewhere between Huffington Post, Gawker and WoWoWoW, Brown is describing the project as a "news aggregation site." The name is borrowed from the fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's book, Scoop, and the editor is borrowed from the Wall Street Journal: its former deputy managing editor Ed Felsenthal will edit the site. When the workaholic media impresario is ready for a break, she heads East to the 1938 beach house in Quogue that she shares with husband Harry Evans. She married Evans in East Hampton in 1981 at the home of then-Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn.

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