Sarah Ellison

A leadership vacuum and an unprecedented president threaten Fox News as power changes hands.

While most newsrooms focus their attention on the Mueller investigation's first indictments, Fox News is focusing on...anything else.

William D. Cohan and Sarah Ellison, of Vanity Fair, discuss their reporting on President-elect Trump's children: Eric; Donald, Jr.; Tiffany; Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner.

Some believe that the GOP nominee is maneuvering to create his own conservative media empire should he lose in November. 

Vanity Fair contributing editor Sarah Ellison on her in-depth portrait of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and the chaos of his investigative journalism start-up, First Look Media.

Sarah Ellison, Vanity Fair contributing editor, discusses the magazine’s exclusive interview with Edward Snowden about his motivation for leaking tens of thousands of secret documents. 

Vanity Fair contributor Sarah Ellison looks at the ongoing fallout from the News Corp. phone hacking scandal and the toll it has taken on Rupert Mudrdoch’s media empire.

Rupert Murdoch's global media empire is coming under further pressure this morning as the scandal starts to affect his interests in other countries. Our partner, the BBC has learned U.S. federal investigators have contacted British police to discuss the probe into allegations against journalists working for the News of the World newspaper. Some are alleged to have paid police officers for information. Murdoch's News Corporation is based in the U.S., and the law here can impose serious penalties on companies guilty of bribing foreign officials. In the country of Murdoch's birth, Australia, the value of News Corporation shares has plunged more than six percent to a two-year low.

Sarah Ellison, Vanity Fair contributing editor and author of War at the Wall Street Journal, weighs in on the telephone hacking scandal that led to the UK newspaper's folding.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch will close Britain’s most popular newspaper, The News of the World, in a bid to prevent the outrage over the tabloid’s phone hacking scandal from infecting the other news outlets he owns. British detectives investigating the illegal phone hacking conducted by the newspaper’s staff say the number of victims could exceed 4,000.

Vanity Fair contributor Sarah Ellison talks about the troubled relationship between The Guardian and Wikileaks. Her article “The Man Who Spilled the Secrets” gives an account of the five months of stops and starts and all the machinations with Julian Assange and his lawyers at The Guardian’s London offices, which led to the publication of WikiLeaks’ cache of diplomatic cables on November 29. “The Man Who Spilled the Secrets” appears in the February issue of Vanity Fair.

Sarah Ellison, a contributor to Vanity Fair, discusses the rivalry between The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Sarah Ellison tells the story of Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion acquisition of the Wall Street Journal.