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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.
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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?
