Making journalism ‘great and humane’: An editor reflects on a century of the New Yorker

The new documentary, directed by Marshall Curry, follows Remnick’s team as it produces its 100th anniversary issue — which came out in February

In a new Netflix documentary that was released last weekend, The New Yorker at 100, editor of the magazine David Remnick, 65, says that he wants The New Yorker to be two things: “Great and humane”. Remnick had already won the Pulitzer Prize for Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire in 1993 before he took over as editor in 1998. His predecessor, British editor Tina Brown, who established the credo of making “the sexy serious, and the

David Remnick and his team plan the countdown to Trump’s re-election in October 2024. (NETFLIX)