The Shindigger

Lehman Alone: Vanity Fair’s Vicky Wards Off Well-Wishers With Formidable Frock

Old media overtook the Four Seasons restaurant on Wednesday, April 6, celebrating the release of Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward’s book The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, wherein the Cambridge-bred beauty, who recently split from her husband, Matthew Doull, chronicles the demise of the ill-fated investment Read More

Hors D’Oeuvres in the Devil’s Den

On an unseasonably warm April evening at the Four Seasons restaurant—not to be confused with the hotel five blocks north—a bastion of old media congregated to celebrate the release of Vicky Ward‘s debut novel, The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers. In her revealing roman à clef, the Read More

At the Post, Vicky Ward’s Coattails are Off-Limits

When New York Post news feature editor Vicky Ward quit on April 21 to be Talk ‘s executive editor, staff members left behind began sniping about their former boss to media columnists: They dredged up the “Mental Ward” nickname for her features department; some told New York magazine that Ms. Ward rewrote, yelled, over-assigned; an Read More

Off The Record

On Monday, April 10, a memo from executive editor Joseph Lelyveld was posted around the offices of The New York Times . It read: “I’d be grateful if you can join me in the newsroom at 2:30 this afternoon. I’ve a few things I want to say about our work over the past year.”

While Read More