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Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 7:42am on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | The New Yorker Could Be The Last Magazine Standing
The New York Observer reported on November 10, 2009:
"The magazine has gotten a little younger (witness the hiring of Ryan Lizza, Nick Trautwein, Ariel Levy, and 26-year-old managing editor Amelia Lester). But one thing has stayed the same: the sheer size of the magazine’s editorial staff.
“In order to do what we do, we need a sizable staff,” said editor in chief David Remnick in an interview. “We don’t publish 10 issues a year, or 12 issues a year. We publish 46.”
“If The New Yorker is going to be worthy of the name,” he continued, “we can’t do it with a minuscule staff.”
The full story:
http://www.observer.com/2009/media/last-magazine-standing
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.""
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 4:38pm on Monday, February 9th, 2009 | In February 2009, David Hauslaib's Jossip had some awfully nice things to say about Sasha Frere-Jones:
"Sasha Frere-Jones, the New Yorker's pop music scribe, is to rap writing what Wu-Tang is to rap music, hyphenated, cerebral (sometimes too much so) and very often good. Counterintuitive as it sounds, a magazine so pretentious that it's dishonorable to read it while getting a shoe shine is actually quite a reliable source for hip hop coverage. Granted, next to the price, Frere-Jones' Devin the Dude blurb was probably the most ignored bit of text in New Yorker history, but it's nice to know it's there, like a blinking smoke alarm. We also appreciate that the New Yorker's online edition now boasts the keyword "Fadanuf fa Erybody," one of the Dude's old albums."
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:03pm on Sunday, February 8th, 2009 | On February 6, 2009, Media Life magazine reported that The New Yorker has a new publisher:
"The ad economy has been brutal to magazines, and especially to the New Yorker, and yesterday Condé Nast shifted bodies about in the hopes of reversing that slide. Out as publisher is Drew Schutte, who had held the title for just a year, and in is Lisa Hughes, longtime publisher of Condé Nast Traveler. Schutte moves over to head web sales for company's many magazine web sites, and in some ways it's a better fit, considering his years heading Wired, the Condé Nast publication dedicated to things digital.
Like a number of magazine publishers, Condé Nast has been slow to develop its web properties, and the Schutte move is a clear signal that the ailing fashion publishing house intends to catch up."
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:34pm on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 | On December 15, 2008, the Politico web site reported that The New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick is writing a book about Barack Obama:
"New Yorker editor David Remnick has recently begun writing a book focusing on Barack Obama, race and politics in America.
Remnick confirmed to Politico that he’s started a book, but did not reveal details of when it might be completed, or published. It's believed to be in the formative stages.
“The germ of the book is a piece I wrote and the magazine published called ‘The Joshua Generation,’ which ran just after Obama’s election,” Remnick said, through a spokesperson.
That 13,000-word piece looked at race and politics in America, and the significance of Obama's election victory in terms of being the first black president and beneficiary of the civil rights struggles of the past. In the piece, Remnick spoke with both members of Obama’s inner circle and leaders of the civil rights movement.
A former Washington Post reporter, Remnick is more prolific than most editors, at times penning lengthy pieces for the magazine—his Sept. 2006 profile of Bill Clinton, for instance, clocked in at over 20,000 words. And Remnick has several books to his credit, including two on Russia. "Lenin’s Tomb," his book on the fall of the Soviet Union, won the Pulitzer and Polk awards."
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Margaret Hill
New Jersey | Posted at 10:05am on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 | Even though the cover of the Obama's dressed as terrorists is a past "issue". I just wanted to comment that I am supporting Obama and it appears that even when the press or the Republicans jest or make stabs at Obama, it makes little difference. From what I hear and see Obama seems to handle and deal with criticism very well, he always comes through looking together and rational.
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Nan
USA | Posted at 11:40am on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 | Your cover "art" of the Obama's is absolutely crass, rude, unnecesary, and DOWNRIGHT OFFENSIVE!!!! Shame, Shame, Shame on you!!!!! You must all be Republicans. Boo Hiss on you!!!
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