In over 30 years at Vogue, Anna Wintour has killed many stories. This is not one of them.
Featuring: Amy Odell and Max Fisher
READ THE KILLED STORY
“A Rose in the Desert,” Vogue, published online February 25, 2011. By Joan Juliet Buck.
Additional Source Material
- The Atlantic: The Only Remaining Online Copy of Vogue’s Asma al-Assad Profile
- The Atlantic: Vogue Defends Profile of Syrian First Lady
- The Guardian: Joan Juliet Buck: on interviewing Asma al-Assad and teaching the French to dress
- Newsweek: Joan Juliet Buck: My Vogue Interview With Syria’s First Lady
- NPR: Stepping Back From Assad Profile, Anna Wintour Decries Syrian ‘Atrocities’
- The New York Times: Syria’s Assads Turned to West for Glossy P.R.
- The Hill: PR firm worked with Syria on controversial photo shoot
- Today: Vogue cover with LeBron stirs up controversy
- The Washington Post: Vogue’s flattering profile on Assad’s wife disappears from Web
- Editors Inc: Speed Read: The Price of Illusion
- Simon & Schuster: Anna