The New Yorker

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+78 by 10+34 inches (200 mm × 273 mm)[3]
PublisherCondé Nast
Total circulation
(December 2019)
1,231,715[4]
First issueFebruary 21, 1925 (1925-02-21)
CompanyAdvance Publications
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City
LanguageEnglish
Websitenewyorker.com
ISSN0028-792X
OCLC320541675

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.

  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.'


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