The New Yorker
American weekly magazine since 1925
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| October 2 2023 | The New Yorker published a controversial cover titled 'Race for Office', depicting top U.S. politicians Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden running with walkers, satirizing concerns about the mental and physical states of older politicians seeking reelection. |
| 2022 | Spiderhead was released, based on George Saunders's story Escape from Spiderhead originally published in The New Yorker. |
| March 2022 | The New Yorker transitioned to publishing online crosswords every weekday, with varying difficulty levels and themed puzzles on Fridays. |
| 2021 | Release of Wes Anderson's 'The French Dispatch', an homage to The New Yorker featuring stories in the style of various magazine contributors. |
| 2021 | The New Yorker Union signs its first collective bargaining agreement. |
| July 2021 | The New Yorker introduced Name Drop, a daily online trivia game posted on weekdays. |
| June 2021 | The New Yorker began publishing new cryptic puzzles weekly. |
| 2019 | The Columbia Journalism Review highlighted The New Yorker as the publication most consistently identified with rigorous fact-checking. |
| December 2019 | Liz Maynes-Aminzade was named The New Yorker's first puzzles and games editor. |
| December 2019 | The Christmas issue featured a unique crossword puzzle by Patrick Berry with cartoons used as clues. |
| 2018 | The magazine relaunched cryptic puzzles that were previously run in the late 1990s. |
| 2018 | The magazine's editorial staff unionizes, forming The New Yorker Union. |
| April 2018 | The New Yorker launched a weekday crossword puzzle series, publishing a new crossword every Monday. |
| 2015 | Release of 'Very Semi-Serious', a documentary directed by Leah Wolchok offering a behind-the-scenes look at The New Yorker's cartoons. |
| 2014 | The New Yorker opens up online access to its archive and launches a paywalled subscription model for its website. |
| 2012 | William Shawn is portrayed in the film 'Hannah Arendt'. |
| 2010 | David Grann wrote an article scrutinizing art expert Peter Paul Biro's methods of identifying forgeries, which led to a defamation lawsuit that was subsequently summarily dismissed. |
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