David Remnick

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.

36 min
A conversation with the editor of The New Yorker.
1 min
Sometimes snark is just a one-trick pony.
3 min
Some writers hate writing. Remnick isn’t one of them.
1 min
Remnick says he can guess which party the candidate will come from.
1 min
There’s been no shortage of the examination of the real issues, Remnick says.
1 min
With no end in sight, the war in Iraq is not receiving nearly enough attention.