David Friend
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Friend is a publishing executive, correspondent, curator, writer, editor, and poet. He is Vanity Fair’s editor of creative development and lives in New Rochelle, New York. As a correspondent, he has covered conflicts in many parts of the world like Afghanistan and Lebanon. As an editor, Friend broke the “Deep Throat” story in 2005, revealing that Mark Felt was Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s secret Watergate source. As a writer, he has contributed frequently to ”Vanity Fair”, ”American Photo”, and The Digital Journalist Web site. His humorous articles and cartoons have appeared in ”The Washington Post”, ”Discover”, ”The Common Review” and ”Salon.com”. His poetry has appeared in ”The New Yorker”. He has edited ”The Meaning of Life” and ”More Reflections on the Meaning of Life”. With Graydon Carter, Friend edited Vanity Fair’s ”Hollywood”, ”Oscar Night” and ”Vanity Fair, The Portraits”. As a curator, he has mounted exhibitions for the International Center of Photography, the United Nations and the Newseum as well as other venues. Friend created the Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography under the auspices of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, coordinators of the Pulitzer Prizes.
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