New Yorker


The New Yorker: too big to fail?

While other magazines are shrinking and downsizing, The New Yorker has remained entirely intact, even despite its publisher’s financial woes. What’s the magazine’s secret? It may have something to do with its 60-plus team of staff writers…

New Yorker, the fashion edition

With New York fashion week happening RIGHT NOW, Lee Tran Lam digests the New Yorker’s annual style issue. Particularly notable, a “sassifying” interior decorator with a penchant for “muchness”.

New Yorker subs to come fashionably late

Memo Amelia Lester, the incoming 26-year old managing editor of the New Yorker from Sydney’s lower north shore: fix your mag’s subscription service.

26-year-old Aussie named new New Yorker editor

There’s a new kid on the block at the The New Yorker, with the mag naming 26-year-old Australian Amelia Lester as its new editor. Never heard of her? Neither has anyone else in the media, it seems. But a bit of digging by Mediaite reveals she is a Harvard grad and former editor of The Paris Review.

PODCAST: New Yorker editor on the future of magazines

New Yorker magazine editor Ben Greenman talks Media Bistro about the future of the magazine industry.

New Yorker v PNG tribe: how did fact mingle with fiction?

Oral history is always blurry and difficult to adapt to the concrete standards of modern journalism. Perhaps that’s how Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond got into trouble writing for The New Yorker on PNG.

How the New Yorker got caught in a $10m lawsuit

Murder, tribal warfare and a famous writer land one of the world’s most prestigious magazines in hot water.

First New Yorker cover by iPhone app

Jorge Colombo used Brushes, an application for the iPhone that’s a bit like virtual finger painting, to create this week’s cover while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum.

Media briefs: No guests at Sky Canberra… Naked journalism at The Age

Sky News: no cameraman, no guests, just straight talking news … Subless n-ked journalism … Mags tap into reader generated content … Google Mail goggles … Arianna’s New Yorker moment … The Beast is born

PM’s poet cops it from the New Yorker

Four pages in the New Yorker should be enough attention to satisfy the ego of even an Australian poet. It is not likely that Les Murray will be basking in Dan Chiasson’s recent article about him.