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The Media Is One Big Ivy League Reunion: Or... Not?

Posted Tuesday August 29, 2006 at 10:35 AM

Gawker tells us all the time that the media is one big Ivy League reunion. In the dog days of summer, the month-old gossip blog IvyGate thought entry-level fact-checkers stuck at the office might appreciate a field guide to their bosses around town.

The shocking result? Ivy League graduates only hold 40% of top editorial positions in national media.

The new "IvyGate Index" lists Ancient Eight degree-holders at the top of 25 media mastheads. If striped blazers and half-restrained sneers make you hot, it's good, clean, status-conscious, Six Degrees of Graydon Carter ("no college") fun. And we just loved the introduction:

Flip through The New Yorker and wow, there was that time you and Phil Gourevitch stayed up after that party in Risley, had a lot of wine, really just talked, and one thing led to another and it's not like it makes you gay, it was just college, you know?

N.B.: Gourevitch's baby, the Paris Review, wasn't prestigious enough to make the site's "10 best magazines" breakdown.
— Maureen Miller