The New Yorker

'Dragon Tattoo'/'New Yorker' Situation Shows Why Embargoes No Longer Work - Posted December 5, 2011
[caption id="attachment_30999" align="alignleft" width="322" caption="Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig in David Fincher's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Photo: Merrick Morton"][/caption] Gasp! The New Yorker... [PRNewser]

Revolving Door: 'USA Today,' Reuters, Time Inc., and More - Posted December 2, 2011
USA Today's editor John Hillkirk has stepped down to be senior edi... [PRNewser]

Adweek Unveils Annual Hot List Next Week; CBS and MTV Early Winners - Posted December 2, 2011
New York-based Adweek has named the finalists for this year's Hot List. For the first time, the list expands from best in magazines to include television, print, and digital banners. The winners will be revealed next week, but FishbowlNY has learned exclusively about several of the honorees. CBS h... [FishbowlNY]

Creative Direction of Tablets Gives Publishers Pause - Posted November 29, 2011
When designing a magazine app for a tablet, is it best for it to be simple or complicated? The answer to that question is giving companies plenty to think about. Adweek ... [FishbowlNY]

The New Yorker Names First Creative Director - Posted November 8, 2011
The New Yorker has named Wyatt Mitchell its first Creative Director. Mitchell was most recently Cond Nast's Digital Design Director. Pam McCarthy, Deputy Editor at the magazine, told WWD that a Creative Director was needed becau... [FishbowlNY]

A Look at The New Yorker's Apple Ads - Posted October 7, 2011
Before you yell "I'm sick of Steve Jobs coverage!" and punch your computer screen, let us explain. Yes, this has to do with Apple, but it's not some sappy tribute, and you're probably going to regret breaking your laptop anyway. The New Yorker has ... [FishbowlNY]

Latest New Yorker Cover Puts Tourists in Their Place - Posted September 28, 2011
"I was flabbergasted by the chaos of it all. You're trying to get somewhere, but it's impossible. It's like salmon swimming upstream." That's how Bruce McCall described his ... [FishbowlNY]

Nancy Franklin Departs The New Yorker - Posted September 13, 2011
Nancy Franklin is leaving The New Yorker after 13 years as its TV critic. She just tweeted, "Some news: I'm leaving my job as The New Yorker's TV critic. Happy to have had, for 13 yrs, the best job ever, and happy to b... [FishbowlNY]

The New Yorker Chooses 9/11 for First e-Book - Posted August 24, 2011
We're not quite sure how much of an audience there is for e-books, but The New Yorker is certainly grabbing some attention with its first venture into the territory. The Cutline ... [FishbowlNY]

Most Popular FishbowlNY Stories for the Week - Posted August 12, 2011
Here's a look at what FishbowlNY stories made the most buzz this week. Fred Imus, Brother of Don Imus, Dies at 69, August 8 ... [FishbowlNY]

The New Yorker's Gay Marriage Cover - Posted July 18, 2011
While we're talking covers - check out this week's New Yorker, featuring two brides happily walking the Brooklyn Bridge. As the magazine ... [FishbowlNY]

'Fart,' 'Skank,' and When Offensive Words First Appeared in The New Yorker - Posted May 31, 2011
The Awl has a great post today that chronicles when several vulgar words first found their way into The New Yorker. For example, the first time "anal" appeared in the magazine was in 1994, but the first "shit" can be found in a 1976 piece t... [FishbowlNY]

Most Popular FishbowlNY Stories for the Week - Posted May 27, 2011
Here's a look at what FishbowlNY stories made the most buzz this week. White House Adds New Position to Deal with Unfavorable Online Media, May 23 ... [FishbowlLA]

How Do Celebrities Use Twitter? Interview With @susanorlean - Posted May 24, 2011
Celebrities use Twitter for a lot of reasons - promoting a new venture, to praise or complain about something, to share information, to spread news about a good cause. So I thought it would be fun to hear from the celebs themselves... [AllTwitter]

USA Network Takes Over Entire New Yorker Issue - Posted May 23, 2011
Advertisers love to get our attention, so what better way to do that than to buy out an entire website or magazine? The USA Network thinks this is the right path, because it owns all the advertising space in the special "newsstand only" issue of The New Yorker, which came out... [FishbowlNY]

Sherman Alexie Writes 'The Facebook Sonnet' - Posted May 16, 2011
The New Yorker recently published "The Facebook Sonnet" by Sherman Alexie. The poem follows the AB-AB/CD-CD/EF-EF/GG ... [GalleyCat]

Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn Joins The Paris Review - Posted May 16, 2011
Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn will join The Paris Review as senior editor. According to a post at The Paris Review, current web editor Thessaly La Force is leavin... [GalleyCat]

Roger Ebert Finally Wins New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest - Posted April 25, 2011
Our feel-good story of the day! Two years ago, Roger Ebert wrote this on his Chicago Sun Times blog: I have entered the N... [FishbowlNY]

Was 'The New Yorker' Facebook Campaign a Winner? - Posted April 20, 2011
Last week we wrote about The New Yorker's campaign offering fans who clicked the Facebook "like" button a chance to read a story by ... [PRNewser]

The New Yorker's Facebook Presence Grows Slightly - Posted April 18, 2011
Last Monday, The New Yorker decided to beg for Facebook fans by placing a Jonathan Franzen piece behind its Facebook page. The strategy -... [FishbowlNY]

'The New Yorker' Using Facebook to Attract Long-Form Fans - Posted April 12, 2011
If you like The New Yorker, then you're already getting the magazine and reading it's stories, which are far wordier than most stories being published in major magazines today. (And in many cases far better. Seriously, The New Yorker can be unbelievably grea... [PRNewser]

The New Yorker Asks for 'Likes' to View Content - Posted April 11, 2011
Just how much do you enjoy the writing of Jonathan Franzen? The New Yorker is hoping its enough to "like" its Facebook page, because according to Mashable, that's the only way you can view a n... [FishbowlNY]

Cover of The New Yorker Captures Japan Tragedy - Posted March 21, 2011
The newest cover of The New Yorker is sad and amazing all at once. Illustration by Christoph Niemann.... [FishbowlNY]

Elisabeth Biondi Leaves The New Yorker - Posted March 15, 2011
Elisabeth Biondi is leaving The New Yorker after 15 years, per a blog post on the magazine's site. She has been its V... [FishbowlNY]

Sorting out the Top Newsweekly Magazines of 2010 - Posted March 14, 2011
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism released its annual State of The News Media report today, and because FishbowlNY loves you, we sifted through the data on magazines. Among the six magazines considered in the newsweekly category - Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The New Yorker... [FishbowlNY]

Cond Nast Taps Adobe Digital Publishing Suite - Posted October 25, 2010
Publishing giant Cond Nast will debut digital replica editions across its portfolio of magazine brands using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Cond Nast Offers Paid Video-on-Demand from Golf Digest, The New Yorker Festival - Posted October 4, 2010
Cond Nast is driving its way into the paid video-on-demand party, launching ongoing golf-instruction series Golf Digest on Demand and streaming live content from New Yorker... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

FishbowlNY's 2009 Lists: Our Most Read Stories Of The Year - Posted December 23, 2009
Layoffs, magazine closures and a racially charged cartoon top FishbowlNY's most-read stories this year. A quick skim through the list says it all about what was most important to you in 2009, from massive layoffs at Forbes and ... [FishbowlNY]

Dan Rather On Journalism|Mags Go Up In Price|New Yorker Dumps Second Fiction Issue|UMD's Knight Center Closes|Buffett Calls Newspaper Publishers Complacent - Posted December 14, 2009
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Time Inc. Exec Departs For Career In Digital Media - Posted November 24, 2009
Last night The New York Observer broke the news that Time Inc. executive vice president John ... [FishbowlNY]

Check Out The New Yorker's Masthead - Posted November 11, 2009
Conde Nast weekly The New Yorker doesn't publish a masthead, so its staff, titles and editorial structure is sort of a well-kept secret. And, it's one of th... [FishbowlNY]

Marie Claire Publisher Plagemann Jumps To Vogue, Florio's Role Expanded - Posted November 4, 2009
The latest Conde Nast restructuring news comes to the top of one of the company's highest profile pubs. Susan Plagemann, the publisher at Hearst's ... [FishbowlNY]

Conde Nast Retreads On Familiar Obama Territory To Sell Copies - Posted October 28, 2009
A Michelle Obama Glamour cover for December? We know that coming up with new and original content for women's magazines that doesn't feel old hat is hard, but something about ... [FishbowlNY]

Tallying Up The Conde Nast Layoffs -- So Far - Posted October 22, 2009
Can you believe it's already been over two weeks since Conde Nast ... [FishbowlNY]

Norman Mailer Colony Gala: A Night of Media, Literary Superstars - Posted October 21, 2009
It takes a lot to bring America's greatest living fiction, non-fiction, and journalism writers into one room, but if one woman could do, it's Tina Brown. The Daily Beast editor-in-chie... [FishbowlNY]

Excitement For BusinessWeek Deal At MPA Conference - Posted October 15, 2009
Yesterday, we spent a few hours at the Magazine Publishers of America's Magazine Innovation Summit. In between panels and interviews like The New York Times' ... [FishbowlNY]

What's Left At Conde Nast? - Posted October 8, 2009
Conde Nast is one of the largest magazine publishers in the U.S., and the news earlier this week th... [FishbowlNY]

Photographer Irving Penn Dies At 92 - Posted October 8, 2009
Irving Penn, an American photography icon known for his photographs of fashion and celebrities, died yesterday in New York at age 92. Although Penn was best known for his work in ... [FishbowlNY]

Learning To Take A Risk: Mag Editors Meet To Discuss The Move From Print To Digital - Posted October 6, 2009
The move from print to digital publications was the topic of the moment at mediabistro.com's annual event for women's magazine editors last night at ilili. (But really, isn't it the topic of the moment at every media event these days?) On hand to discuss were some female leaders in the digital field:... [FishbowlNY]

Nikki Finke Blasts New Yorker Profile - Posted October 5, 2009
Yesterday, The New Yorker published a lengthy profile of Deadline Hollywood Daily blogger ... [FishbowlNY]

Layoffs On The Horizon For Conde Nast? - Posted September 23, 2009
With McKinsey & Co. wrapping up its work at Conde Nast, the vultures are out. Severe budget cuts are a given, and layoffs are not too much of a stretch. The question is: which publications will be hardest hit? Last week, ... [FishbowlNY]

Columnist Archerd Dies|CBS Tries Bribing Blogger With $20 Gift Card|What Do New Yorkers Say They Like To Read On The Subway?|Daily Beast Hires 24-Year-Old Editor|Fallon Ends Olbermann-Beck Beef - Posted September 9, 2009
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ASME Launches Best Cover Of The Year Contest - Posted September 2, 2009
Yesterday was the first day to vote in the American Society of Magazine Editors' best cover of the year contest on Amazon.com. You can log on to vote for your favorite among the six finalists i... [FishbowlNY]

Kennedy Family Starts Twitter Feed|Tribune Lenders Seek Zell Investigation|Saturday Evening Post Editor Emerson Dies|New Yorker Hires 26-Year-Old Managing Editor|Kate Gosselin Takes On "The View" - Posted August 27, 2009
Embedded video from CNN Video FishbowlDC: The Kennedy family has turned to Twitter and the Web to get word out about plans for Sen. ... [FishbowlNY]

First On FBNY: More Cuts At Conde? (With Updates) - Posted August 13, 2009
A FishbowlNY tipster tells us there were layoffs at The New Yorker yesterday, the same day the New York Observer featured a story hinting that the magazine wou... [FishbowlNY]

Mourning The Loss Of Conde Nast's "Gilded Age" - Posted August 12, 2009
The New York Observer's John Koblin has gone deep within the depths of 4 Times Square to ... [FishbowlNY]

Conde Starts To Purge - Posted August 5, 2009
The cost-cutting continues at Conde Nast. Several months ago, the magazine publisher laid off a slew of receptionists in an effort to slash costs, but some remained on the editorial floors at 4 Times Square. But those jobs that were salvaged then are now go... [FishbowlNY]

International Center for Journalists Set To Honor New Yorker's Hersh - Posted June 24, 2009
The International Center for Journalists announced today that investigative reporter Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker will be awarded the group's prestigious Founders Award later this year. Her... [FishbowlNY]

The New Yorker's June Cover Courtesy of An iPhone - Posted May 26, 2009
Gizmodo has the story about the June cover of The New Yorker. Artist Jorge Colombo took about an hour to fingerpaint an intricate Times Square scene on his iPhone using Brushes, a $4.99 iPhone drawing app. Now, it's the... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

'Subway Pitch' Becomes the New 'Elevator Pitch' - Posted March 25, 2009
The luxury culture at Conde Nast is slowly dying amidst the advertising decline. The latest news, as Keith Kelly ... [FishbowlNY]

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 nominate... [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... [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 Yo... [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 Interne... [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... [FishbowlNY]

Conde Nast Cuts Website Launches but Still Hopeful About Magazines! - Posted December 4, 2008
Conde Nast: Always looking to the future! Agency Spy ... [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 ... [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 ... [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... [FishbowlNY]

Sarah Palin on SNL: The Fallout - Posted October 20, 2008
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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 ... [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... [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 th... [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 ... [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... [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" ... [FishbowlNY]