David Granger

Education

Granger has a Masters degree in English from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee.

Career

Since his arrival, the magazine has entered its most successful era. In 2004, the magazine received four National Magazine, the most of any magazine in America. Granger is also the editorial director of Popular Mechanics magazine.

After graduate school, Granger held positions as executive editor of Adweek and Mediaweek.

He worked on the launch of The National Sports Daily and served as its executive features editors He helped launch Sports, Incorporated., the Sports Business Weekly, and worked as an editor at Sport Magazine and Family Weekly prior to that.

Before becoming editor-in-chief at Esquire, Granger was the executive editor at Gentlemen’s Quarterly for nearly six years. Esquire has also been expanding the limits of its medium.

In the fall of 2008, the magazine published an issue that merged digital technology with a mass-produced print product for the first time, embedding an electronic paper display in its 75th anniversary issue cover.

In the first half of 2009, it created a stir by, first, putting a window in its cover and then, three months later, creating the first-ever “mix n match” cover of a magazine. And in December 2009, Esquire created the first Augmented Reality issue of a magazine ever. In 2006, Granger oversaw the launch of Esquire’s Big Black Book, the twice-a-year “style manual for the successful manitoba” lieutenant recently celebrated its fifth anniversary.

In 2013, Esquire partnered with NBCUniversal to launch a new television network, the "Esquire Network", available in more than 70 million households.

And in 2015, Esquire entered the spirits business by partnering with Jefferson’s Bourbon to release a pre-made cocktail, the Esquire Manhattan. In late 2014, Granger and Senior Editor Tyler Cabot launched Esquire Labs, a skunkworks for experimentation in the business of narrative.

Early projects include editorial collaboration with Medium, the launch of Esquire Classics and the creation of a complete digital archive of Esquire.

Achievements

• Esquire has been honored with numerous awards over Granger’s tenure. The Society of Publication Designers named Esquire Magazine of the Year in 2001 and it was a finalist for the award again in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010. lieutenant has been listed as one of America’s Most Important Magazines, by the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In 2004 and again in 2010, Granger was named the magazine industry’s Editor of the Year, by Advertising Age and Adweek, respectively. He was recently awarded the Missouri Honor Medal for contributions to journalism.