New Yorker Magazine

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 1:44pm on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Nick Trautwein was hired as a senior editor at The New Yorker in October 2009.

Trautwein was previously an editor at Penguin Press. He replaces Emily Eakin, who is leaving the magazine for medical reasons.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:35pm on Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Amelia Lester has been named managing editor at The New Yorker magazine, replacing Kate Julian. Lester was previously an editor at The Paris Review.

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 12:27pm on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

The American news media could be fundamentally changing, according to Nicholas Lemann in the New Yorker story "Paper Tigers" from April 13, 2009:

"We now may see the history of journalism rewinding even farther, back to the time before the burghers and before the impresarios, when there wasn’t much of a market for news and there was a seamless connection between journalism and politics. Substantial realms of journalism, especially in newer media like the blogosphere and cable television, are already hard to distinguish from political activity. As government gets bigger and more consequential, the worry is not that there will be no one to purvey the news but that the news will no longer remain an independent and countervailing power."

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:51pm on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

A New Guinea tribe is suing The New Yorker for $10 Million for depicting them as rapists, murderers and pig thieves, Forbes magazine reported on April 21, 2009:

"In an April 21, 2008, New Yorker story, "Vengeance Is Ours," Pulitzer Prize-winning geography scholar Jared Diamond describes blood feuds that rage for decades among tribes in the Highlands of New Guinea. Diamond tells the story using a central protagonist: Daniel Wemp, member of the Handa clan, a blood-thirsty warrior bent on avenging his uncle's death. That quest, writes Diamond, touched off six years of warfare leading to the slaughter of 47 people and the theft of 300 pigs.

Now Diamond's protagonist is fighting Diamond. A two-page complaint filed in New York State Supreme Court on April 20 seeks $10 million from the New Yorker's publisher, Advance Publications, claiming Diamond's story falsely accused Wemp and fellow tribesman Isum Mandigo of "serious criminal activity" and "murder.""