The New Yorker

44th Annual National Magazine Awards Announced - Posted March 19, 2009
ASME has announced this year's National Magazine Award Finalists. There is a bit of a last hurrah sense about this year's ceremony -- Best Life nominated for the Magazine Section award no longer exists, and New York recently pulled itself of out of the MPA altogether, and Newsweek, up for... [FishBowlNY]

Drew Schutte Named Senior Vice President Conde Nast Digital - Posted February 5, 2009
Conde Nast Digital, formerly known as CondeNet, doesn't appear to be wasting much time with its reshuffle. The company just announced it has named Drew Schutte senior vice president & chief revenue officer effective immediately. Schutte will be responsible for managing the newly consolidated digital sales team and working... [FishBowlNY]

Obama Continues to Save Print, Leap Tall Buildings, Etc. - Posted January 7, 2009
Maybe at the inauguration someone should give the man a cape. The sales numbers are in for various post-election magazine issues and perhaps not surprisingly they are good! According to the NYO The New Yorker's 'O' moon rising was the the second biggest in Remnick history and the... [FishBowlNY]

New York Times Freezes Wages, New Yorker on the Print Crisis - Posted December 15, 2008
This week The New Yorker gets aboard the collapse of the newspaper industry train:The real problem for newspapers, in other words, isn't the Internet; it's us. We want access to everything, we want it now, and we want it for free. That's a consumer's dream, but eventually it's going to collide... [FishBowlNY]

Time's Top Ten Magazine Covers 2008 - Posted December 9, 2008
It's that time of year: lists! Time has released their top ten magazine covers for 2008. The New Yorker takes top spot (no that New Yorker). Spitzer's 'Brain,' New York's March cover gets number two, and one of the many covers featuring Barack Obama but nothing else —... [FishBowlNY]

Conde Nast Cuts Website Launches but Still Hopeful About Magazines! - Posted December 4, 2008
Conde Nast: Always looking to the future! Agency Spy is saying that a spy has told them that Conde Nast has decided to put all its website launches on hold for the time being. Maybe not all that surprising considering not that long ago they decided to downsize Portfolio...in... [FishBowlNY]

Tina Brown on The Daily Beast: 'I Spend a Hell of a Lot of Time in My Pajamas' - Posted November 24, 2008
One sometimes wonders if Tina Brown's The Daily Beast would have had such an easy time defining itself if not for the sprawling presence of the Huffington Post — it seems Brown never misses the chance to subtly point the differences. This Sunday Brown was a guest on Howie Kurtz's... [FishBowlNY]

The New Yorker Sees the Future of Magazines and It Looks Digital - Posted November 6, 2008
Here's one of the things we love about The New Yorker: they are always looking ahead. To wit: their website was early out of the gate with content, they have a whole slew of their writers blogging, they even offer podcasts and video(!) (though we still think they should follow... [FishBowlNY]

Conde Nast Cuts Five Percent of All Staff, Men's Vogue in Jeopardy - Posted October 30, 2008
The long slippery slope to demise that the print world has been on for the last year or so just got a whole lot steeper and slippier this week. Whoosh! Today's bit of bad news comes from Conde Nast. The Observer is reporting that all the editors and... [FishBowlNY]

Sarah Palin on SNL: The Fallout - Posted October 20, 2008
Remember how Quentin Tarantino brought John Travolta's career back from the dead? That's sort of how it's starting feel in terms of SNL and Sarah Palin. To wit: Sarah Palin's, albeit rather dull appearance on SNL this weekend resulted in the show's highest ratings in 14 years. ... [FishBowlNY]

James Surowiecki Launches New Blog at The New Yorker - Posted October 17, 2008
Timing is everything! So, in light of the ever-deepening financial crisis, what better time for The New Yorker's resident business expert James Surowiecki to become the latest addition to the New Yorker's line up of blogs. Starting this week Surowiecki will be penning the Balance Sheet. And it... [FishBowlNY]

Esquire Endorses Obama - Posted October 10, 2008
Presidential endorsements are the new must-haves for magazines! This week The New Yorker used its entire Talk of the Town section for a wordy endorsement of Barack Obama (only their second ever). And now Esquire has announced its entire November issue will be devoted to endorsing. Says Esquire editor... [FishBowlNY]

Tina Brown's Daily Beast Arrives: 'Sensibility, Darling' - Posted October 6, 2008
Does this mean magazines are officially dead? Tina Brown, magazine editrix extraordinaire, has finally launched the long chattered about The Daily Beast (named after the paper in the Evelyn Waugh novel Scoop). What is the Beast? Well, for one, it's not another news aggregator, it "sifts, sorts, and... [FishBowlNY]

Sarah Palin and The New Yorker: 'I Can See Russia From My House' - Posted September 29, 2008
It remains to be seen whether Sarah Palin is beyond satire, though one could make a very good argument, particularly post the Katie Couric interiviews, that the Alaskan Governor actually needs no assistance to cast herself (or is it rear her head) in the worst possible light. For the time... [FishBowlNY]

Sarah Palin and The New Yorker: 'I Can See Russia From My House' - Posted September 29, 2008
It remains to be seen whether Sarah Palin is beyond satire, though one could make a very good argument, particularly post the Katie Couric interiviews, that the Alaskan Governor actually needs no assistance to cast herself (or is it rear her head) in the worst possible light. For the time... [FishBowlNY]

Shouldn't More People be Reading Harper's? - Posted September 19, 2008
Jon Friedman wants to know why Harper's isn't more widely read (notwithstanding Moe Tkacik). Is it because, as Friedman notes, "its covers have all the pizzazz of a form letter from the Internal Revenue Service." Certainly an apt observation, though Drudge isn't especially pretty to look at either and... [FishBowlNY]

Is Obama Playing Media Favorites? - Posted July 21, 2008
A line slipped in near the end of Mike Allen's Politico article about the media coverage of Barack Obama's overseas trip, is making some waves. Per Allen: "Among those for whom there was no room was Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent of The New Yorker. The campaign, which was furious... [FishBowlNY]

What is Funny?: Fallout from the New Yorker Obama Cover - Posted July 15, 2008
It's been 24 hours since The New Yorker's Barack Obama "Politics of Fear" cover hit newsstands, which means the print world has had time to weigh in. Also, FBNY readers!: 55% percent of the couple of hundred of you who voted found it more offensive than not, which may mirror the... [FishBowlNY]