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 Cover of the first issue from February 21, 1925, featuring the figure ofdandyEustace Tilley, created byRea Irvin[a] | |
| Editor | David Remnick |
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| Frequency | 47 issues/year |
| Format | 7+7⁄8 by10+3⁄4 inches (200 mm × 273 mm)[3] |
| Publisher | Condé Nast |
| Total circulation (Oct. 2025) | 1,319,919[4] |
| First issue | February 21, 1925; 100 years ago (1925-02-21) |
| Company | Advance Publications |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0028-792X |
| OCLC | 320541675 |
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, byHarold Ross and his wifeJane Grant, a reporter forThe New York Times. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office inManhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards, such as its robustfact-checking operation, for whichThe New Yorker is widely recognized.[5]
Although its reviews and events listings often focused on thecultural life of New York City,The New Yorker gained a reputation for publishing serious essays,long-form journalism, well-regarded fiction, and humor for a national and international audience, including work by writers such asTruman Capote,Vladimir Nabokov, andAlice Munro. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the magazine adapted to thedigital era, maintaining its traditional print operations while expanding its online presence, including making its archives available on the Internet and introducing a digital version of the magazine.David Remnick has been the editor ofThe New Yorker since 1998. Since 2004,The New Yorker has published endorsements inU.S. presidential elections.
The New Yorker is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, such asView of the World from 9th Avenue,[6] its commentaries on popular culture and eccentricAmerican culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion ofshort stories and literaryreviews, its rigorous fact checking andcopy editing,[7][8] itsinvestigative journalism and reporting on politics andsocial issues, and its single-panelcartoons reproduced throughout each issue. According to a 2012Pew Research Center study,The New Yorker, along withThe Atlantic andHarper's Magazine, ranked highest incollege-educated readership among major American media outlets.[9] It has won elevenPulitzer Prizes since 2014, the first year magazines became eligible for the prize.[10]
The New Yorker was founded byHarold Ross (1892–1951) and his wifeJane Grant (1892–1972), aNew York Times reporter, and debuted on February 21, 1925. Ross wanted to create a sophisticated humor magazine that would be different from perceivably "corny" humor publications, such asJudge, where he had worked, or the oldLife. Ross partnered with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann (who founded the General Baking Company)[11] to establish the F-R Publishing Company. The magazine's first offices were at 25 West 45th Street inManhattan. Ross edited the magazine until his death in 1951. During the early, occasionally precarious years of its existence, the magazine prided itself on its cosmopolitan sophistication. Ross declared in a 1925 prospectus for the magazine: "It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady inDubuque".[12]
Although the magazine never lost its touches of humor, it soon established itself as a preeminent forum for serious fiction, essays and journalism. Shortly after the end ofWorld War II,John Hersey's essayHiroshima filled an entire issue. The magazine has published short stories by many of the most respected writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, includingAnn Beattie,Sally Benson,Maeve Brennan,Truman Capote,Rachel Carson,John Cheever,Roald Dahl,Mavis Gallant,Geoffrey Hellman,Ernest Hemingway,Stephen King,Ruth McKenney,John McNulty,Joseph Mitchell,Lorrie Moore,Alice Munro,Haruki Murakami,Vladimir Nabokov,John O'Hara,Dorothy Parker,S.J. Perelman,Philip Roth,George Saunders,J. D. Salinger,Irwin Shaw,James Thurber,John Updike,Eudora Welty, andE. B. White. Publication ofShirley Jackson's "The Lottery" drew more mail than any other story in the magazine's history.[13]
The nonfiction feature articles (usually the bulk of an issue) cover an eclectic array of topics. Subjects have included eccentric evangelistCreflo Dollar,[14] the different ways in which humans perceive the passage of time,[15] andMünchausen syndrome by proxy.[16]
The magazine is known for its editorial traditions. Under the rubricProfiles, it has published articles about prominent people such as Ernest Hemingway,Henry R. Luce,Marlon Brando, Hollywood restaurateurMichael Romanoff, magicianRicky Jay, and mathematiciansDavid and Gregory Chudnovsky. Other enduring features have been "Goings on About Town", a listing of cultural and entertainment events in New York, and "The Talk of the Town", afeuilleton or miscellany of brief pieces—frequently humorous, whimsical, or eccentric vignettes of life in New York—in a breezily light style, although latterly the section often begins with a serious commentary. For many years, newspaper snippets containing amusing errors, unintended meanings or badly mixed metaphors ("Block That Metaphor") have been used as filler items, accompanied by a witty retort. There is no masthead listing the editors and staff. Despite some changes, the magazine has kept much of its traditional appearance over the decades in typography, layout, covers, and artwork. The magazine was acquired byAdvance Publications, the media company owned bySamuel Irving Newhouse Jr, in 1985,[17] for $200 million when it was earning less than $6 million a year.[18]
Ross was succeeded as editor byWilliam Shawn (1951–1987), followed byRobert Gottlieb (1987–1992) andTina Brown (1992–1998). The current editor ofThe New Yorker isDavid Remnick, who succeeded Brown in July 1998.[19]
Among the important nonfiction authors who began writing for the magazine during Shawn's editorship wereDwight Macdonald,Kenneth Tynan, andHannah Arendt, whoseEichmann in Jerusalem reportage appeared in the magazine,[20] before it was published as a book.[21]
Brown's tenure attracted more controversy than Gottlieb's or even Shawn's, due to her high profile (Shawn, by contrast, had been an extremely shy, introverted figure), and to the changes she made to a magazine with a similar look for the previous half-century. She introduced color to the editorial pages (several years beforeThe New York Times) and included photography, with less type on each page and a generally more modern layout. More substantively, she increased the coverage of current events and topics such as celebrities and business tycoons, and placed short pieces throughout "Goings on About Town", including a racy column about nightlife in Manhattan.
Since the late 1990s,The New Yorker has used the Internet to publish current and archived material, and maintains a website with some content from the current issue (plus exclusive web-only content). Subscribers have access to the full current issue online and a complete archive of back issues viewable as they were originally printed. In addition,The New Yorker's cartoons are available for purchase online. In 2014,The New Yorker opened up online access to its archive, expanded its plans to run an ambitious website, and launched a paywalled subscription model. Web editorNicholas Thompson said, "What we're trying to do is to make a website that is to the Internet what the magazine is to all other magazines".[22]
The magazine's editorial staff unionized in 2018 andThe New Yorker Union signed its firstcollective bargaining agreement in 2021.[23]
The New Yorker influenced a number of similar magazines, includingThe Brooklynite (1926 to 1930),The Chicagoan (1926 to 1935), and Paris'sThe Boulevardier (1927 to 1932).[24][25][26]
Kurt Vonnegut said thatThe New Yorker has been an effective instrument for getting a large audience to appreciate modern literature.[27]Tom Wolfe wrote of the magazine: "TheNew Yorker style was one of leisurely meandering understatement, droll when in the humorous mode, tautological andlitotical when in the serious mode, constantly amplified, qualified, adumbrated upon, nuanced and renuanced, until the magazine's pale-gray pages became High Baroque triumphs of the relative clause andappository modifier".[28]
Joseph Rosenblum, reviewingBen Yagoda'sAbout Town, a history of the magazine from 1925 to 1985, wrote, "The New Yorker did create its own universe. As one longtime reader wrote to Yagoda, this was a place 'wherePeter DeVries ... [sic] was forever lifting a glass ofPiesporter, whereNiccolò Tucci (in a plum velvet dinner jacket) flirted in Italian withMuriel Spark, where Nabokov sipped tawnyport from a prismatic goblet (while aRed Admirable perched on his pinky), and where John Updike tripped over the master's Swiss shoes, excusing himself charmingly'".[29]
On November 1, 2004, the magazine endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time, choosing Democratic nomineeJohn Kerry over incumbent RepublicanGeorge W. Bush.[30]
| Year | Endorsement | Result | Other major candidate(s) | Ref. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | John Kerry | Lost | George W. Bush | [31] | ||||||
| 2008 | Barack Obama | Won | John McCain | [32] | ||||||
| 2012 | Barack Obama | Won | Mitt Romney | [33] | ||||||
| 2016 | Hillary Clinton | Lost | Donald Trump | [34] | ||||||
| 2020 | Joe Biden | Won | Donald Trump | [35] | ||||||
| 2024 | Kamala Harris | Lost | Donald Trump | [36] | ||||||
The New Yorker has featured cartoons (usuallygag cartoons) since it began publication in 1925. For years, its cartoon editor wasLee Lorenz, who first began cartooning in 1956 and became aNew Yorker contract contributor in 1958.[37] After serving as the magazine's art editor from 1973 to 1993 (when he was replaced byFrançoise Mouly), he continued in the position of cartoon editor until 1998. His bookThe Art of the New Yorker: 1925–1995 (Knopf, 1995) was the first comprehensive survey of all aspects of the magazine's graphics. In 1998,Robert Mankoff took over as cartoon editor and edited at least 14 collections ofNew Yorker cartoons. Mankoff also usually contributed a short article to each book, describing some aspect of the cartooning process or the methods used to select cartoons for the magazine. He left the magazine in 2017.[38]
The New Yorker's stable of cartoonists has included many important talents in American humor, includingCharles Addams,Peter Arno,Charles Barsotti,George Booth,Roz Chast,Tom Cheney,Sam Cobean,Leo Cullum,Richard Decker,Pia Guerra,J. B. Handelsman,Helen E. Hokinson,Pete Holmes,Ed Koren,Reginald Marsh,Mary Petty,George Price,Charles Saxon,Burr Shafer,Otto Soglow,William Steig,Saul Steinberg,James Stevenson,James Thurber, andGahan Wilson.
Many earlyNew Yorker cartoonists did not caption their cartoons. In his bookThe Years with Ross, Thurber describes the newspaper's weekly art meeting, where cartoons submitted over the previous week were brought up from the mail room to be looked over by Ross, the editorial department, and a number of staff writers. Cartoons were often rejected or sent back to artists with requested amendments, while others were accepted and captions were written for them. Some artists hired their own writers; Hokinson hired James Reid Parker in 1931.Brendan Gill relates in his bookHere at The New Yorker that at one point in the early 1940s, the quality of the artwork submitted to the magazine seemed to improve. It later was found out that the office boy (a teenagedTruman Capote) had been acting as a volunteer art editor, dropping pieces he did not like down the far end of his desk.[39]
Several of the magazine's cartoons have reached a higher plateau of fame. One 1928 cartoon drawn byCarl Rose and captioned byE. B. White shows a mother telling her daughter, "It's broccoli, dear". The daughter responds, "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it". The phrase "I say it's spinach" entered the vernacular, and three years later, the Broadway musicalFace the Music includedIrving Berlin's song "I Say It's Spinach (And the Hell with It)".[40] Thecatchphrase "back to the drawing board" originated with the 1941 Peter Arno cartoon showing an engineer walking away from a crashed plane, saying, "Well, back to the old drawing board".[41][42]
The most reprinted isPeter Steiner's 1993 drawing of two dogs at a computer, with one saying, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog". According to Mankoff, Steiner and the magazine have split more than $100,000 in fees paid for the licensing and reprinting of this single cartoon, with more than half going to Steiner.[43][44]
Over seven decades, many hardcover compilations ofNew Yorker cartoons have been published, and in 2004, Mankoff editedThe Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, a 656-page collection with 2,004 of the magazine's best cartoons published during 80 years, plus a double CD set with all 68,647 cartoons ever published in the magazine.[45] This features a search function allowing readers to search for cartoons by cartoonist's name or year of publication. The newer group of cartoonists in recent years includesPat Byrnes,J. C. Duffy,Liana Finck,Emily Flake,Robert Leighton,Michael Maslin,Julia Suits, andP. C. Vey. Will McPhail cited his beginnings as "just ripping offCalvin and Hobbes,Bill Watterson, and doing little dot eyes".[46] The notion that someNew Yorker cartoons have punchlines so oblique as to be impenetrable became a subplot in theSeinfeld episode "The Cartoon",[47] as well as a playful jab inThe Simpsons episode "The Sweetest Apu".[citation needed]
In April 2005, the magazine began using the last page of each issue for "The New Yorker CartoonCaption Contest". Captionless cartoons byThe New Yorker's regular cartoonists are printed each week. Captions are submitted by readers, and three are chosen as finalists. Readers then vote on the winner. Anyone age 13 or older can enter or vote. At first, the winner received a print of the cartoon (with the winning caption) signed by the artist who drew the cartoon, but this practice ceased.[48] In 2017, afterBob Mankoff left the magazine,Emma Allen became its youngest and first female cartoon editor.[49]
Since 1993, the magazine has published occasional stories ofcomics journalism (alternately called "sketchbook reports")[50] by such cartoonists asMarisa Acocella Marchetto,Barry Blitt,Sue Coe,Robert Crumb andAline Kominsky-Crumb,Jules Feiffer,Ben Katchor,Carol Lay,Gary Panter,Art Spiegelman,Mark Alan Stamaty, andRonald Wimberly.[51]
In April 2018,The New Yorker launched a crossword puzzle series with a weekday crossword published every Monday. Subsequently, it launched a second, weekend crossword that appears on Fridays and relaunched cryptic puzzles that were run in the magazine in the late 1990s. In June 2021, it began publishing new cryptics weekly.[52] In July 2021,The New Yorker introduced Name Drop, a trivia game, which is posted online weekdays.[53] In March 2022,The New Yorker moved to publishing online crosswords every weekday, with decreasing difficulty Monday through Thursday and themed puzzles on Fridays.[54] The puzzles are written by a rotating stable of 13 constructors. They integrate cartoons into the solving experience. The Christmas 2019 issue featured a crossword puzzle byPatrick Berry that had cartoons as clues, with the answers being captions for the cartoons. In December 2019, Liz Maynes-Aminzade was namedThe New Yorker's first puzzles and games editor.[citation needed]
The magazine's first cover illustration, depicting adandy peering at a butterfly through amonocle, was drawn byRea Irvin, the magazine's first art editor. It was based on an 1834 caricature of theCount d'Orsay that appeared as an illustration in the 11th edition of theEncyclopædia Britannica.[55] The character on the original cover, now known as Eustace Tilley, was created forThe New Yorker byCorey Ford. The hero of a series titled "The Making of a Magazine", which began on the inside front cover of the August 8 issue that first summer, Tilley was a younger man than the figure on the original cover. Histop hat was of a newer style, without the curved brim. He wore amorning coat and stripedformal trousers. Ford borrowed Eustace Tilley's last name from an aunt—he had always found it vaguely humorous[citation needed]. He selected "Eustace" foreuphony.[56]
The character has become a kind of mascot forThe New Yorker, frequently appearing in its pages and on promotional materials. Traditionally, Irvin's original Tilley cover illustration is used every year on the issue closest to the anniversary date of February 21, though on several occasions a newly drawn variation has been substituted.[57]
The magazine is known for its illustrated and often topical covers. As of 2025[update], only two covers have featured photography.[58]
Saul Steinberg created 85 covers and 642 internal drawings and illustrations for the magazine. His most famous work is probably the cover for issue March 29, 1976,[59] featuring an illustration, most often called "View of the World from9th Avenue", sometimes called "A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World" or "A New Yorker's View of the World", which depicts a map of the world as seen by self-absorbed New Yorkers.
The illustration is split in two, with the bottom half showing Manhattan's 9th Avenue, 10th Avenue, and theHudson River, and the top half depicting the rest of the world. The rest of the US is the size of the three New York City blocks and is drawn as a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing "Jersey", the names of five cities (Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.;Las Vegas;Kansas City; and Chicago) and three states (Texas,Utah, andNebraska) scattered among a few rocks for the U.S. beyond New Jersey. The Pacific Ocean, perhaps half again as wide as the Hudson, separates the US from three flattened land masses labeled China, Japan and Russia.
The illustration—depicting New Yorkers' self-image of their place in the world, or perhaps outsiders' view of New Yorkers' self-image—inspired many similar works, including the poster for the 1984 filmMoscow on the Hudson; that movie poster led to a lawsuit,Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., 663 F. Supp. 706 (S.D.N.Y. 1987), which held thatColumbia Pictures violated thecopyright that Steinberg held.
The cover was later satirized byBarry Blitt for the cover ofThe New Yorker on October 6, 2008, featuringSarah Palin looking out of her window seeing only Alaska, with Russia in the far background.[60] The cover of the March 21, 2009, issue ofThe Economist, titled "How China sees the World", is an homage to Steinberg, depicting the viewpoint from Beijing'sChang'an Avenue instead of Manhattan.[61]
Hired by Tina Brown in 1992,Art Spiegelman worked forThe New Yorker for ten years, but resigned a few months after theSeptember 11 terrorist attacks. Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly received wide acclaim for their cover for the issue from September 24, 2001; it was voted as being among the top ten magazine covers of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors:
New Yorker Covers Editor Françoise Mouly repositioned Art Spiegelman's silhouettes, inspired byAd Reinhardt's black-on-black paintings, so that the North Tower's antenna breaks the "W" of the magazine's logo. Spiegelman wanted to see the emptiness, and find the awful/awe-filled image of all that disappeared on 9/11. The silhouetted Twin Towers were printed in a fifth, black ink, on a field of black made up of the standard four color printing inks. An overprinted clear varnish helps create the ghost images that linger, insisting on their presence through the blackness.
The cover appears to be totally black, but upon close examination it reveals the silhouettes of theWorld Trade Center towers in a darker shade of black. In some situations, the ghost images become visible only when the magazine is tilted toward a light source.[62] In September 2004, Spiegelman reprised the image on the cover of his bookIn the Shadow of No Towers.
In December 2001, the magazine printed a cover byMaira Kalman andRick Meyerowitz showing a map of New York in which neighborhoods are labeled with humorous names reminiscent of Middle Eastern and Central Asian place names and referencing the neighborhood's real name or characteristics (e.g., "Fuhgeddabouditstan", "Botoxia"). The cover had cultural resonance in the wake of September 11, and became a popular print and poster.[63][64]
For the 1993Valentine's Day issue, the cover by Spiegelman depicted a black woman and aHasidic Jewish man kissing, referencing theCrown Heights riot of 1991.[65][66] The cover was criticized by black and Jewish observers.[67] Jack Salzman andCornel West called reaction to the cover the magazine's "first national controversy".[68]
On July 21, 2008, "The Politics of Fear", a cartoon byBarry Blitt, was featured on the cover ofThe New Yorker, depicting then presumptive Democraticpresidential nomineeBarack Obama in theturban andshalwar kameez typical of manyMuslims,fist bumping with his wife,Michelle, portrayed with anAfro and wearingcamouflage trousers with anassault rifle slung over her back. They are standing in theOval Office, with a portrait ofOsama bin Laden hanging on the wall and an Americanflag burning in the fireplace.[69] This parody was inspired byFox News hostE. D. Hill's paraphrase of an internet comment that asked whether a gesture the Obamas made was a "terrorist fist jab".[70][71] Later, Hill's contract was not renewed.[72]
ManyNew Yorker readers saw the image as a lampoon of "The Politics of Fear", its title. Some Obama supporters, as well as his presumptive Republican opponent,John McCain, accused the magazine of publishing an incendiary cartoon whose irony could be lost on some readers. Editor David Remnick felt the image's obvious excesses rebuffed the concern it could be misunderstood.[73][74] "The intent of the cover", he said, "is to satirize the vicious and racist attacks and rumors and misconceptions about the Obamas that have been floating around in theblogosphere and are reflected in public opinion polls. What we set out to do was to throw all these images together, which are all over the top and to shine a kind of harsh light on them, to satirize them."[75] Obama said, "Well, I know it wasThe New Yorker's attempt at satire... I don't think they were entirely successful". He pointed to his efforts to debunk the allegations the cover depicted, saying that the allegations were "actually an insult against Muslim-Americans".[76][77]The Daily Show continuedThe New Yorker cover's argument about Obama stereotypes with a piece showcasing clips containing such stereotypes culled from legitimate news sources.[78] On October 3, 2008,Entertainment Weekly magazine published a parody of the cover, featuringJon Stewart as Barack andStephen Colbert as Michelle.[79]
New Yorker covers are sometimes unrelated to the contents, or only tangentially related. The article about Obama in the issue with Blitt's cover did not discuss the attacks and rumors, but rather Obama's career. The magazine later endorsed Obama for president.
On July 8, 2013,The New Yorker featured a cover image by artist Jack Hunter, titled "Moment of Joy", depictingSesame Street charactersBert and Ernie; the issue in particular covered the Supreme Court decisions on theDefense of Marriage Act andCalifornia Proposition 8.[80] Bert and Ernie have long been rumored in urban legend to be romantic partners, butSesame Workshop has denied this, saying they are merely "puppets" and have no sexual orientation.[81]Slate criticized the cover, which shows Ernie leaning on Bert's shoulder as they watch a television with the Supreme Court justices on the screen, saying, "it's a terrible way to commemorate a major civil-rights victory for gay and lesbian couples".The Huffington Post, meanwhile, said it was "one of [the magazine's] most awesome covers of all time".[82]
The cover from October 2, 2023, titled "The Race for Office", depicts top politicians—Donald Trump,Mitch McConnell,Nancy Pelosi, andJoe Biden—running the titular race for office with walkers. Many had questioned the mental and physical states of these and other older politicians, particularly those who have run for reelection.[83][84][85][86] While many acknowledged the cover as satirizing this issue, others criticized the "ableism and ageism" of mocking older people and those who use walkers.[87][88]The New Yorker said the cover "portrays the irony and absurdity of the advanced-age politicians currently vying for our top offices".[89]
The New Yorker's signature display typeface, used for its nameplate and headlines and the masthead above "The Talk of the Town" section, is named Irvin, named after its creator, the designer-illustratorRea Irvin.[90] The body text of all articles is set inAdobe Caslon.[91]
One uncommonly formal feature of the magazine's in-housestyle is the placement ofdiaeresis marks in words with repeatingvowels—such asreëlected,preëminent, andcoöperate—in which the two vowel letters indicate separate vowel sounds.[92][93] The magazine also continues to use a few spellings that are otherwise little used in American English, such asfuelled,focussed,venders,teen-ager,[94]traveller,marvellous,carrousel,[95] andcannister.[96]
The magazine also spells out the names of numerical amounts, such as "two million three hundred thousand dollars" instead of "$2.3 million", even for very large figures.[97]
In 1927,The New Yorker ran an article aboutEdna St. Vincent Millay that contained multiple factual errors, and her mother threatened to sue the publication for libel.[98] Consequently, the magazine developed extensivefact-checking procedures, which became integral to its reputation as early as the 1940s.[99] In 2019, theColumbia Journalism Review said that "no publication has been more consistently identified with its rigorous fact-checking".[98] As of 2025, about 30 people work in the fact-checking department.[100]
At least two defamation lawsuits have been filed over articles published in the magazine, though neither were won by the plaintiff. Two 1983 articles byJanet Malcolm aboutSigmund Freud's legacy led to a lawsuit from writerJeffrey Moussaieff Masson, who claimed that Malcolm had fabricated quotes attributed to him.[101] After years of proceedings and appeals, a jury found in Malcolm's favor in 1994.[102] In 2010,David Grann wrote an article for the magazine about art expertPeter Paul Biro that scrutinized and expressed skepticism about Biro's stated methods to identify forgeries.[103] Biro suedThe New Yorker for defamation, alongside multiple other news outlets that reported on the article, but the case was summarily dismissed.[103][104][105][106]
The New Yorker is read nationwide, with 53% of its circulation in the top 10 U.S. metropolitan areas.[citation needed]
According to a 2009 survey-based estimate of magazine audiences by MediaMark Research, the averageNew Yorker reader was 47.8 years old, with a household income of $91,359.[107] In the same period, the average household income in the United States was $58,898.[107]
Politically, the magazine's readership holds generallyliberal views. According to a 2014Pew Research Center survey, 77% ofThe New Yorker's readers have left-of-center political values, and 52% of them hold "consistently liberal" political values.[108]
InMrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, a film about theAlgonquin Round Table starringJennifer Jason Leigh asDorothy Parker,Sam Robards portrays founding editor Harold Ross trying to drum up support for his fledgling publication.
The magazine's former editor,William Shawn, is portrayed inCapote (2005),Infamous (2006), andHannah Arendt (2012).
The 2015 documentaryVery Semi-Serious, directed by Leah Wolchok and produced by Wolchok and Davina Pardo (Redora Films), presents a behind-the-scenes look at the cartoons ofThe New Yorker.[109]
It has been more than 20 years since I became a page OK'er—a position that exists only at theNew Yorker, where you query-proofread pieces and manage them, with the editor, the author, a fact-checker, and a second proofreader, until they go to press.
Copy editing for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop for a major league baseball team—every little movement gets picked over by the critics ...E. B. White once wrote of commas in The New Yorker: 'They fall with the precision of knives outlining a body.'
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'It's amazing to witness how attitudes on gay rights have evolved in my lifetime,' said Jack Hunter, the artist behind next week's cover
The Children's Television Workshop has steadfastly denied rumors about Bert and Ernie's sexual orientation...
...[I]t should be noted that the diaeresis...has overwhelming support at the magazine, and will remain.
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