Tina's New Yorker. (management of New Yorker magazine under Tina Brown) (Cover Story)

From: Columbia Journalism Review | Date: March 1, 1993| Author: Utne, Eric | Copyright information

The New Yorker magazine has long been considered a bastion of American culture, distinctive in its editorial style and unwilling to compromise for the sake of popularity. In the eyes of many prominent, long time readers, under new editor Tina Brown the New Yorker is changing to present a more topical view point, is more in line with contemporary culture and has lost much of what made it distinctive. Brown defends her editorial changes as necessary to make the magazine more readable and timely...

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