David Remnick
Editor, The New Yorker
Since taking the helm of The New Yorker in 1998, David Remnick has returned the magazine to its profitable glory days. A graduate of Princeton University, he began his journalistic career as a night police reporter at the Washington Post in 1982, becoming the paper's Moscow correspondent in 1988. His coverage of the Soviet Union's collapse led to his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1993 book "Lenin's Tomb." His latest book "The Bridge," is a biography of President Barack Obama. He lives in New York with his wife, Esther Fein, and their three children.
The standard of proof had been laid out clearly in the decades since the destructive lie of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. And then George W. Bush claimed there were […]
The more unwilling Binyamin Netanyahu is to make a leap of history, the more dangerous it’s going to get.
Why isn’t the New Yorker editor worried about what has been happening to the magazine industry?
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The President couldn’t assume he would get the African-American vote just because he was black. He had to go out and win it.
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The New Yorker editor compares the current atmosphere in the U.S. to what happened in Israel under Yitzhak Rabin: the far right stirred things up so much that the political […]
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Obama wants to win. He’s “not some kind of pie-eyed idealist.”
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Jerry Kellman spent countless hours with the President eating at McDonald’s and talking about life.
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A conversation with the editor of The New Yorker.
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Remnick says he can guess which party the candidate will come from.
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There’s been no shortage of the examination of the real issues, Remnick says.
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With no end in sight, the war in Iraq is not receiving nearly enough attention.
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It’s not a question of elitism, Remnick says. It’s about getting a good product out there.
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The New Yorker editor says there are good bloggers and lousy bloggers.
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The magazine’s criticism of the George W. Bush administration made up for whatever The New Yorker missed in the lead-up to the war, says Remnick.
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Writers who don’t outgrow short fiction are the exception rather than the norm, Remnick says.
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Remnick’s tenure happened to coincide with 9/11 and the subsequent fall out.
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Does a Web presence compromise the New Yorker brand?
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It’s hard to find funny young people who can make a living cartooning, Remnick says.
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Even with newspapers taking a hit, Remnick believes there will always be curious, driven young journalists out there.
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Be obsessed with what you do, Remnick says.
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It was a combination of curiosity, luck and gumption, Remnick says.
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Remnick talks about the twin influences of Bob Dylan and Philip Roth.
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