Ex-Vanity Fair writer Bryan Burrough was paid | Gossip Wire

A former star writer for Vanity Fair magazine says he earned half a million {dollars} yearly to jot down simply three tales for the Condé Nast-owned publication during its “heyday” underneath then-editor-in-chief Graydon Carter.

Bryan Burrough, the investigative journalist and creator who’s best recognized for co-writing the seminal e book “Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabsico,” stated he devoted simply six months out of the yr to doing 10,000-word items for Vanity Fair, which paid the equal of more than $166,000 per article.

“For twenty-five years, I was…