"Curry had hoped to make a meal out of staffers pushing to meet the February 2025 publishing date, the magazine's centennial anniversary issue, but the scenes he found didn't quite approximate anything from the boiler room-centered dramas of film fiction or even The September Issue doc on Anna Wintour's clannish Vogue operation. I wanted to see people running around each other and saying, We've got to get this thing done before the deadline!' Curry says. But they don't do that."
"Supreme self-assuredness is how the New Yorker has managed to remain an essential subscription in a contracting media landscape where paper journalism has been reduced to a niche product. While rivals chased trends in hopes that eyeballs would follow, and faded into irrelevance, the New Yorker doubled down on curiosity and honed its refined palate, collaging wry cartoons, original art and cultural observations around authoritative profiles and investigations."
Marshall Curry made a Netflix film titled The New Yorker at 100 focused on the magazine's centennial and production rhythms. Curry and his crew spent a year rummaging through archives, attending production meetings and shadowing prominent bylines including editor David Remnick. Expected deadline-driven drama proved elusive; staff operated with calm and confidence rather than frantic crisis. The magazine maintained relevance by doubling down on curiosity, a refined editorial palate, cartoons, original art, cultural observations and in-depth reporting. Reader loyalty appears in subway reading, branded totes and stacks of partially read issues as cultural currency.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]