New York (magazine)

"New York Magazine" redirects here. For the eighteenth-century magazine, see The New-York Magazine. For the similarly named but unrelated magazine, see The New Yorker.

New York
April 8, 1968 issue
EditorDavid Haskell
CategoriesGeneral interest
FrequencyBiweekly
PublisherNew York Media
Total circulation406,237[1]
First issueApril 8, 1968; 56 years ago (1968-04-08)
CompanyVox Media[2]
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City
LanguageEnglish
Websitenymag.com
ISSN0028-7369

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, it was brasher in voice and more connected to contemporary city life and commerce, and became a cradle of New Journalism.[3] Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles about American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, Pete Hamill, Jacob Weisberg, Michael Wolff, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister. It was among the first "lifestyle magazines" meant to appeal to both male and female audiences, and its format and style have been emulated by many American regional and city publications.

New York in its earliest days focused almost entirely on coverage of its namesake city, but beginning in the 1970s, it expanded into reporting and commentary on national politics, notably Richard Reeves on Watergate, Joe Klein's early cover story about Bill Clinton, John Heilemann's reporting on the 2008 presidential election that led to his (and Mark Halperin's) best-selling book Game Change, Jonathan Chait's commentary, and Olivia Nuzzi's reporting on the first Trump administration. The New Republic praised its "hugely impressive political coverage" during the presidency of Barack Obama.[4] It is also known for its arts and culture criticism, its food writing (its restaurant critic Adam Platt won a James Beard Award in 2009, and its Underground Gourmet critics Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld won two National Magazine Awards), and its service journalism (its "Strategist" department won seven National Magazine Awards in eleven years.

Since its sale, redesign, and relaunch in 2004, the magazine has won several National Magazine Awards, including the award for general excellence in 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2016, as well as the 2013 award for Magazine of the Year.[5] Since the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism opened to magazines as well as newspapers in 2016, New York's critics have won twice (Jerry Saltz in 2018, and Andrea Long Chu in 2023) and been finalists twice more (Justin Davidson in 2020 and Craig Jenkins in 2021). In 2009, the Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz wrote that "the nation's best and most-imitated city magazine is often not about the city—at least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense," observing that it was more regularly publishing political and cultural stories of national and international import.[6]

The magazine's first website, nymetro.com, was launched in 2001. In the early 21st century, the magazine began to diversify that online presence, introducing subject-specific websites under the nymag.com umbrella: Vulture, The Cut, Intelligencer, The Strategist, Curbed, and Grub Street.[7] In 2018, New York Media, the parent company of New York magazine, launched a digital subscription product for those sites.[8] On September 24, 2019, Vox Media announced that it had purchased New York magazine and its parent company, New York Media.[9]

  1. ^ "Consumer Magazines". Alliance for Audited Media. Archived from the original on April 18, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  2. ^ Tracy, Marc; Lee, Edmund (September 24, 2019). "Vox Media Acquires New York Magazine". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on September 25, 2019. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  3. ^ Wolfe, Tom (September 15, 2023). "The Birth of 'The New Journalism'; Eyewitness Report by Tom Wolfe". New York Magazine. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  4. ^ Chait, Jonathan (July 13, 2010). "Understanding McCain". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  5. ^ Haughney, Christine (May 3, 2013). "New York Receives Top Magazine Prize". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  6. ^ Kurtz, Howard (December 7, 2009). "Howard Kurtz – Media Notes: Howard Kurtz on New York Magazine's Adam Moss". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  7. ^ "'New York' mag hires new online deputy, as traffic grows | Capital New York". December 10, 2013. Archived from the original on December 10, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  8. ^ Peiser, Jaclyn (November 12, 2018). "New York Magazine's Sites Are Going Behind a Paywall". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  9. ^ Tracy, Marc; Lee, Edmund (September 25, 2019). "Vox Media Acquires New York Magazine, Chronicler of the Highbrow and Lowbrow". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.