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1. October 8, 2012 06:50 AM

   New Yorker writers dish about their craft

   An event with The Moth saw writers telling "tales out of school"

   By Abby Ohlheiser

   The New Yorker Festival brought back its collaboration with The Moth again on Friday for “Tales out of School 4,” an adaptation of The Moth's popular and portable storytelling machine. This time it produced stories about writing for The New Yorker, as told by its by writers. Needless to say, New Yorker devotees packed the room at $50 a head...

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2. August 23, 2012 11:00 AM

   The New Yorker on Obama as fundraiser (UPDATED)

   Fascinating reporting but an overly sympathetic portrayal

   By Ryan Chittum

   It's hard to read Jane Mayer's New Yorker piece on campaign fundraising without thinking about how embarrassing and corrupting it is that our system expects the president of the United States to suck up to big shots so he can buy 30-second TV ads on NCIS. “There’s been no thanks for anyone!” the major Democratic donor says. He adds that...

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3. June 8, 2012 07:57 PM

   Audit Notes: Decline of Labor Edition

   Unions, inequality, and billionaires versus organized workers

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New Yorker's John Cassidy writes a smart post on the aftermath of labor's big defeat in Wisconsin and what it shows about "America's Class War: Billionaires Against the Unions." Exploiting public concerns about debts and deficits that have resulted from an economic downturn largely brought on by Wall Street malfeasance, Republican politicians, backed by wealthy individuals and corporations, are...

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4. February 14, 2012 11:58 PM

   Audit Notes: Government Spending, News Corp., The Machines Rise

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New Yorker's George Packer deftly riffs off both Charles Murray's new book on turmoil in the white lower and working classes and Sunday's enormous New York Times story on the cognitive dissonance of conservatives who decry government spending but depend on it: Visit most towns or rural areas where factories are boarded up and all the economic life is...

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5. December 1, 2010 12:19 AM

   Audit Notes: Others on the Business Press

   By Ryan Chittum

   If you haven't read John Cassidy's piece in The New Yorker asking "What Good Is Wall Street?", get to it. It's a pretty good read. Meantime, he had some interesting things to say in a live chat with readers on The New Yorker's website. This particularly is relevant to us (emphasis mine): Reader question: What has changed the most since...

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6. December 16, 2011 06:20 PM

   Audit Notes: Walmart Rewrite, AMR’s Strategic Default, Debtors’ Prison

   By Ryan Chittum

   When The Huffington Post's Lila Pearl Shapiro wrote a critical story about Walmart's labor practices earlier this week, the company gave it a sort of reprint in its internal news service. It just happened to leave out all the pesky critical parts: A day after The Huffington Post published an article that examined a new effort to organize workers at...

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7. August 13, 2012 06:50 AM

   CNNMoney can’t find the workers, either

   A model story for the iffy skills-gap meme

   By Ryan Chittum

   Now it's CNNMoney's turn to spread the "can't find workers" meme. The headline reads "Northeast Indiana: Hundreds of factory jobs go unfilled." There's the counterintuitive top that talks about how even in a recession with high unemployment, manufacturers can't fill their openings. Then there's the head of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce's workforce development program—these types of sources are almost...

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8. September 11, 2012 07:00 AM

   Et tu, Ryan?

   Ryan Lizza's dubious Bill Clinton quote

   By Todd Gitlin

   Ryan Lizza is one of the most perceptive political journalists going. His reporting on Barack Obama’s White House thinking, earlier this year, was one of the handful of indispensable profiles of a president whom many journalists find elusive. Moreover, his profile of Paul Ryan in the August 6 New Yorker is the most revealing of the campaign, using biographical detail...

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9. October 23, 2012 06:50 AM

   Fact-checking at The New Yorker

   An excerpt from The Art of Making Magazines

   By Peter Canby

   Last month, Columbia Journalism Review Books and Columbia University Press released The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry, an anthology of insights and reminiscences from top magazine editors. The book is based on talks given to students as part of the Delacorte Lecture Series at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism....

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10. March 6, 2012 12:05 PM

    Few Female Bylines in Major Magazines

    Losing the count

    By Erin Siegal

    It's appropriate that the red, the color of passion and anger, represents the female male slice of the pie in latest set of charts created by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.* The infographics reveal an ugly, unchanging truth: in 2011, the number of articles published by women in top thought-leader magazines was significantly less than the number of articles published...

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11. June 21, 2012 03:00 PM

    Gladwell makes excuses for Lehrer

    Undefined “conventions of blogging” a weak defense

    By Curtis Brainard

    The media drama surrounding Jonah Lehrer continued Thursday with author Malcolm Gladwell offering a weak defense of his embattled colleague, who’s been accused of “self-plagiarism” for reusing parts of old stories for other publications in blog posts for The New Yorker and Wired. Gladwell, to whom Lehrer has often been compared, told WWD: The conventions surrounding what is and is...

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12. June 20, 2012 12:53 PM

    How Jonah Lehrer should blog

    The art of glossing the news

    By Felix Salmon

    In the wake of the revelations that Jonah Lehrer is a serial self-plagiarist, Josh Levin declares that if you’re an “ideas man”, you shouldn’t be a blogger: For professional thinkers like Gladwell and Lehrer, the key to maintaining a remunerative career is to milk your best ideas until there’s no liquid left and pray you’ve bought yourself enough time to...

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13. July 30, 2012 02:45 PM

    Lehrer resigns from The New Yorker

    Tablet busts the writer for fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works

    By Curtis Brainard

    Science writer Jonah Lehrer has resigned as a staff writer for The New Yorker following revelations that he made up quotes and misquoted singer Bob Dylan in his book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, which was released in March. Monday afternoon, Tablet magazine published the results of an investigation by staff writer Michael C. Moynihan, a self-described "Dylan obsessive" who found...

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14. April 4, 2011 02:04 PM

    Less is Fewer

    Counting on grammar rules

    By Merrill Perlman

    More and more, fewer people use “less” and “fewer” the way the language gods intended. “There are less people here than there were last year,” for example, is commonly heard or written. Grammar texts are pretty absolute: Use “fewer” when you’re talking about countable things, and “less” when you’re not. So that first example should be “fewer” people, because you...

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15. February 17, 2011 03:00 PM

    Letter Perfect

    Inside Elizabeth Bishop’s forty-year correspondence with The New Yorker

    By Jeremy Axelrod

    Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence edited by Joelle Biele | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 496 pages, $35.00 “Of course nobody wants to send them anything really ‘good,’” wrote Elizabeth Bishop to a friend in 1945, just after selling The New Yorker another few poems. Her quip was at least half sincere. The magazine, especially in...

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16. February 8, 2012 12:47 PM

    Park Slope Pundits Get the Story Wrong

    Why lifestyle pieces need context

    By Ben Adler

    I grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, so a headline on The New Yorker's homepage Monday, declaring "Park Slope is Dead," piqued my interest. Alas, the story contained no new information, only inaccurate riffing on something I already knew about: that Southpaw—a live-music club around the corner from my parents' house, where it replaced a 99 cent store in 2002—had...

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17. April 20, 2011 10:14 AM

    Q&A: Calvin Trillin

    “I think journalists make a mistake writing about more than one person at a time”

    By Michael Meyer

    Trillin on Texas | by Calvin Trillin | University of Texas Press | 184 pages, $22.00 Last month, long-time New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin published his twenty-seventh book, a collection of nonfiction pieces about Texas and Texans titled, appropriately, Trillin on Texas. Trillin grew up in Kansas City, Mo., and lives in Greenwich Village, but having spent fifteen years reporting...

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18. August 1, 2012 05:30 PM

    The bright-young-things hypothesis

    Jonah Lehrer’s mistakes are not our fault

    By Curtis Brainard

    The downward spiral of Jonah Lehrer’s career over the last month has shocked his peers and instilled in them a visceral need to understand. Following the revelations of self-plagiarism, outright fabrication, and lying to cover his tracks, we were bewildered. How could such a seemingly talented journalist, and only 31 years old, have thrown it all away? One theory, proffered...

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19. April 20, 2011 10:32 AM

    Trillin on Texas and The New Yorker: A CJR Podcast

    By Lauren Kirchner

    In CJR's latest podcast, staff writer Michael Meyer sits down with author and Nation columnist Calvin Trillin about his new collection, Trillin on Texas, out now from the University of Texas Press. In this excerpt of their conversation, Meyer asks Trillin about his experiences reporting and writing "U.S. Journal," his series of features that ran in The New Yorker from...

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20. July 18, 2012 04:39 PM

    With Borowitz acquisition, NewYorker.com launches a new humor vertical (Updated)

    The magazine's Web presence is expanding, says its online editor

    By Sara Morrison

    NewYorker.com's acquisition of Andy Borowitz's The Borowitz Report isn't the only thing that's new to the site on Wednesday. The acquisition was part of the launch of the site’s new online humor channel, with The Borowitz Report, a Daily Shouts blog, and a humor index page that aggregates all of the magazine's non-cartoon humor. Web editor Nicholas Thompson told CJR...

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