The New Yorker

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Not to be confused with New York (magazine).

The New Yorker
Cover of The New Yorker's first issue in 1925 with illustration depicting iconic character Eustace Tilley
Cover of the first issue, with the figure of dandy Eustace Tilley, created by Rea Irvin[a]
EditorDavid Remnick
Categories
Frequency47 issues/year
Format7+7⁄8 by 10+3⁄4 inches (200 mm × 273 mm)[3]
PublisherCondé Nast
Total circulation
(December 2019)		1,231,715[4]
First issueFebruary 21, 1925; 99 years ago (1925-02-21)
CompanyAdvance Publications
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.newyorker.com Edit this at Wikidata
ISSN0028-792X
OCLC320541675

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for The New York Times. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards.

Although its reviews and events listings often focused on the cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker gained a reputation for publishing serious fiction, essays, and journalism for a national and international audience, featuring works by notable authors such as Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and Alice Munro. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, The New Yorker adapted to the digital 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. As of 2024, the editor of The New Yorker is David Remnick, who took over in 1998. Since 2004, The New Yorker has published political endorsements in U.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 as View of the World from 9th Avenue,[5] its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous fact checking and copy editing,[6][7] its investigative journalism and reporting on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons reproduced throughout each issue. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center study, The New Yorker, along with The Atlantic and Harper's Magazine, ranked highest in college-educated readership among major American media outlets.[8] It has won eight Pulitzer Prizes since 2014, the first year magazines became eligible for the prize.[9]

  1. ^ "The New Yorker February 13 & 20, 2017 Issue". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on March 10, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  2. ^ "The New Yorker March 6, 2017 Issue". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on March 10, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  3. ^ "The New Yorker media kit". condenast.com. Archived from the original on October 21, 2014.
  4. ^ "Circulation averages for the six months ended: 12/31/2019". Alliance for Audited Media. December 31, 2019. Archived from the original on July 31, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  5. ^ Temple, Emily (February 21, 2018). "20 Iconic New Yorker Covers from the Last 93 Years". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on February 23, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
  6. ^ Norris, Mary (May 10, 2015). "How I proofread my way to Philip Roth's heart". The Guardian. Archived from the original on July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018. It has been more than 20 years since I became a page OK'er—a position that exists only at the New 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.
  7. ^ "Mary Norris: The nit-picking glory of the New Yorker's comma queen". TED. April 15, 2016. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018. 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.'
  8. ^ "Section 4: Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences". Pew Research Center. September 27, 2012. Archived from the original on May 11, 2024. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  9. ^ "The New Yorker Wins Two 2024 Pulitzer Prizes". The New Yorker. May 6, 2024. ISSN 0028-792X. Archived from the original on May 12, 2024. Retrieved May 11, 2024.


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