Editor | David Remnick |
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Frequency | 47 issues/year |
Format | 7+7⁄8 by 10+3⁄4 inches (200 mm × 273 mm)[3] |
Publisher | Condé Nast |
Total circulation (December 2019) | 1,231,715[4] |
First issue | February 21, 1925 |
Company | Advance Publications |
Country | United States |
Based in | New York City |
Language | English |
Website | newyorker |
ISSN | 0028-792X |
OCLC | 320541675 |
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker also produces long-form journalism and shorter articles and commentary on a variety of topics, has a wide audience outside New York, and is read internationally.
It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers,[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 journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue.
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.
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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