‘Journalism is the most fun you can have with your pants on’

New Yorker editor David Remnick on the magazine’s magic formula, a new weekly radio show – and caution over Facebook contentDavid Remnick is meant to be talking about the New Yorker’s weekly radio show, which launched this weekend. Yet his answer to my opening gambit, asking why the venerable weekly is going on air, starts with an unfathomable American expression about Texas and rice, segues through the cultural and economic impact of new technologies via Dickens and Dostoevsky, before quoting a 20th century mobster.“People used to ask Willie Sutton why he robbed banks and he said: ‘That’s where the money is.’ [So] that’s where the readers are. If they are online, if they are in print as they still are in huge numbers, I want to be there.” Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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