95-475: William Peter Hamill (June 24, 1935 – August 5, 2020) was an American journalist , novelist, essayist and editor. During his career as a New York City journalist, he was described as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime." Hamill was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and
190-475: A newsroom , from home or outside to witness events or interview people. Reporters may be assigned a specific beat (area of coverage). Matthew C. Nisbet , who has written on science communication , has defined a "knowledge journalist" as a public intellectual who, like Walter Lippmann , Fareed Zakaria , Naomi Klein , Michael Pollan , and Andrew Revkin , sees their role as researching complicated issues of fact or science which most laymen would not have
285-466: A 30-page preview of the first issue of Ms. magazine, edited by Gloria Steinem . Gail Sheehy's "The Search for Grey Gardens", a cover story about the notorious mother -and- daughter Beale household of East Hampton, led to the Maysles brothers' acclaimed documentary . As the 1970s progressed, Felker continued to broaden the magazine's editorial vision beyond Manhattan, covering Richard Nixon and
380-458: A Greek-language newspaper the Atlantis , Hamill talked his way into writing his first piece about his friend, Puerto Rican professional boxer José Torres , then a neophyte middleweight and Olympic champion. This led Hamill to pursue writing a few letters to the editor for the New York Post of which two were printed. Hamill eventually attracted enough attention and was hired as a reporter for
475-511: A book-length history of the magazine and its city, published by Simon & Schuster and titled Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable: 50 Years of New York . The magazine also produced a commemorative issue and celebrated with a party at Katz's Delicatessen . That year, The Cut introduced its podcast, "The Cut on Tuesdays", produced jointly with Gimlet Media and hosted by one of the site's writers, Molly Fischer. In December 2018, New York 's fashion and beauty destination site, The Cut, carried
570-468: A competitor. Kosner's magazine shifted the mix of the magazine toward newsmagazine-style cover stories, trend pieces, and pure "service" features—long articles on shopping and other consumer subjects—as well as close coverage of the glitzy 1980s New York City scene epitomized by financiers Donald Trump and Saul Steinberg . The magazine was profitable for most of the 1980s. The term "the Brat Pack "
665-604: A cradle of New Journalism . Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles about American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe , Jimmy Breslin , Nora Ephron , Pete Hamill , Jacob Weisberg , Michael Wolff , John Heilemann , Frank Rich , and Rebecca Traister . It was among the first " lifestyle magazines " meant to appeal to both male and female audiences, and its format and style have been emulated by many American regional and city publications. New York in its earliest days focused almost entirely on coverage of its namesake city, but beginning in
760-609: A given theme that changed with each installment. (A typical entry, in a competition calling for humorous epitaphs, supplied this one for Geronimo: "Requiescat in Apache.") Altogether, Madden ran 973 installments of the competition, retiring in 2000. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of entries were received each week, and winners included David Mamet , Herb Sargent , and Dan Greenburg . David Halberstam once claimed that he had submitted entries 137 times without winning. Madden published three volumes of Competition winners, titled Thank You for
855-587: A handful of teleplays and screenplays, including adaptations of his own novels, and had a few minor film roles, usually playing a generic "reporter," or himself. According to Robert Rosen, the Producer on French Connection II , he re-wrote all of the dialogue in the film, working nearly non-stop for three days, for which he did not receive screen credit . He appeared as a commentator in several documentaries, including Ric Burns ' New York: A Documentary Film , and Ken Burns ' Prohibition . He also appeared as
950-809: A lab leak instigated the COVID-19 epidemic; a cover package, "Ten Years Since Trayvon," about the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement; and "The Year of the Nepo Baby ," a widely discussed feature about dynastic career advancement in Hollywood. Lindsay Peoples became the editor of The Cut in 2021, and Vulture hired book critic Andrea Long Chu, who subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. New York magazine has long run literary competitions and distinctive crossword puzzles . For
1045-501: A magazine attached." On March 1, 2011, it was announced that Frank Rich would leave The New York Times to become an essayist and editor-at-large for New York . New York 's "Encyclopedia of 9/11", published on the tenth anniversary of the attacks, was described by Gizmodo as "heartbreaking, locked in the past, and entirely current"; the issue won a National Magazine Award for Single-Topic Issue. In October 2012, New York 's offices in lower Manhattan were without electricity in
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#17327810221821140-575: A more national focus to GrubStreet.com. Vulture was launched as a pop culture blog on NYMag.com in 2007. It moved to an independent web address, Vulture.com, in 2012. In 2018, New York Media acquired the comedy news blog Splitsider , folding the operation into the Vulture website. In 2016, New York launched the Strategist , an expansion of a column from the print version of New York Magazine that aimed to help readers navigate shopping from
1235-500: A news media that tended to oversimplify issues and to reinforce stereotypes , partisan viewpoints and prejudices . As a consequence, Lippmann believed that the public needed journalists like himself who could serve as expert analysts, guiding "citizens to a deeper understanding of what was really important". In 2018, the United States Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook reported that employment for
1330-480: A piece titled "Is Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas 's Love for Real?", that drew severe backlash from readers for accusing Chopra of trapping Jonas into a fraudulent relationship and calling her a "global scam artist". The publication removed the piece the following morning and issued an apology. In January 2019, Moss announced that he was retiring from the editorship. David Haskell , one of his chief deputies, succeeded him as editor on April 1, 2019. That spring,
1425-504: A pilot for a weekly. TV show based on its popular back-page feature, the Approval Matrix. New York 's art critic Jerry Saltz appeared as a judge on Bravo's reality competition series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist in 2010 and 2011. Grub Street senior editor Alan Sytsma appeared as a guest on judge on three episodes of the third season of Top Chef Masters . April 2018 was New York ' s 50th anniversary, marked with
1520-403: A professional journalist and a source can be rather complex, and a source can sometimes have an effect on an article written by the journalist. The article 'A Compromised Fourth Estate' uses Herbert Gans' metaphor to capture their relationship. He uses a dance metaphor, "The Tango", to illustrate the co-operative nature of their interactions inasmuch as "It takes two to tango". Herbert suggests that
1615-423: A relaunch that appeared on August 21. The new site was designed for an enhanced mobile-first experience and to better reflect the topics covered. In January 2018, The Cut published Moira Donegan's essay revealing her as the creator of the controversial " Shitty Media Men " list, a viral but short-lived anonymous spreadsheet crowdsourcing unconfirmed reports of sexual misconduct by men in journalism. That August,
1710-579: A speaker in the 2018, 4-part Netflix documentary titled Bobby Kennedy for President . Hamill married his first wife, Ramona Negron, in 1962. Together, they had two daughters, Adrienne and Deirdre. They divorced in 1970. Seventeen years later, he married Fukiko Aoki, a fellow journalist from Japan. His work meant that he resided for long periods of time in Spain , Ireland , Saigon , San Juan, Puerto Rico , Rome , Los Angeles , and Santa Fe, New Mexico . A friend of Robert F. Kennedy , Hamill helped persuade
1805-418: A year, Felker had assembled a team of contributors who would come to define the magazine's voice. Breslin became a regular, as did Nicholas Pileggi , Gail Sheehy , and Gloria Steinem , who wrote a politics column. Judith Crist wrote movie reviews. Harold Clurman was hired as the theater critic, then replaced a few months later by John Simon , who became notorious for his harsh reviews. Alan Rich covered
1900-691: A year-long relaunch, transforming from a site that principally republished the magazine's content to an up-to-the-minute news- and- service destination. In 2008, parent company New York Media also purchased the restaurant- and-menu site MenuPages as a complement to its own restaurant coverage, reselling it in 2011 to Seamless. With the launch of Grub Street, devoted to food, and Daily Intelligencer (later renamed just "Intelligencer"), its politics site, both in 2006; Vulture, its culture site, in 2007; and The Cut, its fashion-and-women's-interest site, in 2008, New York began shifting significant resources toward digital-only publication. These sites were intended to adapt
1995-687: Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century . Hamill also wrote fiction, producing ten novels and two collections of short stories. His first novel, a thriller called A Killing for Christ , about a plot to assassinate the Pope on Easter Sunday in Rome , was published in 1968. Drawing on his youth in Brooklyn he next wrote a semi-autobiographical novel called The Gift . Most of his fiction
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#17327810221822090-425: Is named "Pete Hamill Way." Journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism . Journalists can be broadcast, print, advertising or public relations personnel. Depending on the form of journalism, "journalist" may also describe various categories of people by
2185-687: Is paid for by the subject of a story, but it earns revenue through affiliate advertising , including the Amazon Associates Program. In 2018, the Strategist experimented with a holiday pop-up shop called I Found It at the Strategist. In 2020, New York took over the Vox Media website Curbed , which had begun by covering New York City real estate and development since 2005 and had grown to cover urbanism and design news in many American cities. That October, Curbed relaunched as
2280-540: Is set in New York City, including Snow in August (1997), Forever (2003), North River (2007), and Tabloid City (2011). His 1971 column Going Home , about a released prisoner on his way home by bus, inspired the smash 1973 hit song Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree . Hamill published more than 100 short stories in newspapers, including those that were part of a series called The Eight Million in
2375-672: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle when he was 11. In 1949, Hamill attended the prestigious Regis High School in Manhattan , but he left school when he was 15 to work as an apprentice sheet metal worker in the Brooklyn Navy Yard ; 59 years later, in June 2010, Regis awarded him an honorary diploma. Inspired especially by the work of Milton Caniff , he was set on becoming a comic book artist. Hamill attended night classes at
2470-668: The New York Daily News . The eldest of seven children of Catholic immigrants from Belfast , Northern Ireland, Hamill was born in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn . His father, Billy Hamill, lost a leg as the result of an injury during a semi-professional soccer game in Brooklyn. Hamill's mother, Anne Devlin Hamill, a high school graduate, arrived in New York on the day the stock market crashed in 1929. Billy Hamill
2565-466: The Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz wrote that "the nation's best and most-imitated city magazine is often not about the city—at least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense," observing that it was more regularly publishing political and cultural stories of national and international import. The magazine's first website, nymetro.com, was launched in 2001. In
2660-653: The COVID-19 pandemic had given governments around the world the chance “to take advantage of the fact that politics are on hold, the public is stunned and protests are out of the question, in order to impose measures that would be impossible in normal times”. In 2023 the closure of local newspapers in the US accelerated to an average of 2.5 per week, leaving more than 200 US counties as “news deserts” and meaning that more than half of all U.S. counties had limited access to reliable local news and information, according to researchers at
2755-924: The Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders publish reports on press freedom and advocate for journalistic freedom. As of November 2024, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 1625 journalists have been killed worldwide since 1992 by murder (71%), crossfire or combat (17%), or on dangerous assignment (11%). The "ten deadliest countries" for journalists since 1992 have been Iraq (230 deaths), Philippines (109), Russia (77), Colombia (76), Mexico (69), Algeria (61), Pakistan (59), India (49), Somalia (45), Brazil (31) and Sri Lanka (30). The Committee to Protect Journalists also reports that as of 1 December 2010, 145 journalists were jailed worldwide for journalistic activities. Current numbers are even higher. The ten countries with
2850-824: The Democratic Convention in Atlantic City , and was briefly employed as a feature writer at the New York Herald Tribune . He began writing a column for the New York Post in late 1965, and, by the end of that year, was reporting from Vietnam . For more than four decades, he worked at the New York Post , the New York Daily News , the Village Voice , and New York Newsday . He served briefly as editor of
2945-663: The George Polk Career Award. Hamill was a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University . Hamill and Jimmy Breslin were interviewed for the 2019 HBO documentary Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists , which details both the friendship and competition between New York City's two most read columnists of their era. A stretch of Seventh Avenue between 11th Street and 12th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn ,
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3040-450: The Hamas attack , Russian invasion of Ukraine and the presidential election . American consumers turned away from journalists at legacy organizations as social media became a common news source. Journalists sometimes expose themselves to danger, particularly when reporting in areas of armed conflict or in states that do not respect the freedom of the press . Organizations such as
3135-581: The Hechinger Collection and the incorporation of utilitarian objects for aesthetic ends. His biographical essay on the artist was featured in Underground Together: The Art and Life of Harvey Dinnerstein (2008), whose work, like Hamill's, often focuses on the people and cultural life of Brooklyn. Hamill's interest in photography informed his later essays in nonfiction. New York: City of Islands (2007), celebrates
3230-610: The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University . In January 2024, The Los Angeles Times , Time magazine and National Geographic all conducted layoffs, and Condé Nast journalists went on strike over proposed job cuts. The Los Angeles Times laid off more than 20% of the newsroom. CNN , Sports Illustrated and NBC News shed employees in early 2024. The New York Times reported that Americans were suffering from “news fatigue” due to coverage of major news stories like
3325-716: The National Magazine Awards and was named Magazine of the Year by the Society of Publication Designers (SPD) in 2006 and 2007. A 2008 cover about Eliot Spitzer 's prostitution scandal, created by the artist Barbara Kruger and displaying the word "Brain" with an arrow pointed at Spitzer's crotch, was named Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and Advertising Age . The next year, another cover, " Bernie Madoff , Monster",
3420-586: The New York perspective. The site joined other product review sites focusing on providing free product reviews to readers, generating affiliate commissions when readers would purchase a product they recommended. The early editorial team included editors David Haskell and Alexis Swerdloff. Popular recurring franchises include the celebrity-shopping "What I Can't Live Without" series, "Strategist-Approved" gift guides, and beauty reviews by influencer Rio Viera-Newton. The Strategist does not publish branded content that
3515-601: The New York Post in 1960. The 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike led Hamill to start writing magazine articles. By the fall of 1963 he was a correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post , stationed in Europe. Hamill spent six months in Barcelona and five months in Dublin , and traveled Europe interviewing actors, movie directors, and authors, as well as ordinary citizens. In August 1964 he returned to New York, reported on
3610-467: The New York Post ; in the Daily News , his stories ran under the title Tales of New York . He published two volumes of short stories: The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook (1980) and Tokyo Sketches (1992). Hamill's 1994 memoir, A Drinking Life , chronicled his journey from childhood into his thirties, his embrace of drinking and the decision to abandon it. According to Hamill, Frank McCourt
3705-646: The Post , and later as editor-in-chief of the Daily News . His resignation from the latter position after eight months prompted a letter of protest signed by more than a hundred of the paper's writers. Hamill's more extensive journalistic pieces have been published in New York , The New Yorker , Esquire , Playboy , Rolling Stone , and other periodicals. He wrote about wars in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Lebanon and Northern Ireland, and reported on America's urban riots of
3800-525: The School of Visual Arts (then called the Cartoonists and Illustrators School), with the goal of becoming a painter. He also took courses at Pratt Institute , which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1980. In the fall of 1952, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy . Following his discharge, in 1956–57, he was a student at Mexico City College on the G.I. Bill . In 1958, while serving as the art director for
3895-560: The Watergate scandal closely. He also launched New West , a sister magazine on New York 's model that covered California life, published in separate Northern California and Southern California editions. In 1976, journalist Nik Cohn wrote a story called " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night ", about a young man in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood who, once a week, went to a local disco called Odyssey 2001;
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3990-467: The wire services , in radio , or for news magazines . New York (magazine) New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City . Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine , it was brasher in voice and more connected to contemporary city life and commerce, and became
4085-536: The 1960s. Hamill wrote about the New York underclass and racial division, most notably in an essay for Esquire magazine, "Breaking the Silence". He also wrote about boxing, baseball, art, and contemporary music, winning a Grammy Award in 1975 for the liner notes to Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks . However, while at the New York Post , Hamill defamatorally wrote of the later exonerated Central Park Five that
4180-485: The 1970s, it expanded into reporting and commentary on national politics, notably Richard Reeves on Watergate , Joe Klein 's early cover story about Bill Clinton , John Heilemann 's reporting on the 2008 presidential election that led to his (and Mark Halperin 's) best-selling book Game Change , Jonathan Chait 's commentary, and Olivia Nuzzi 's reporting on the first Trump administration . The New Republic praised its "hugely impressive political coverage" during
4275-678: The Giant Sea Tortoise , Son of Giant Sea Tortoise , and Maybe He's Dead: And Other Hilarious Results of New York Magazine Competitions . Beginning in 1980, the magazine ran an American-style crossword constructed by Maura B. Jacobson . Jacobson retired in April 2011, having created 1,400 puzzles for the magazine, after which the job passed to Cathy Allis Millhauser and then Matt Gaffney. In January 2020, Vulture began publishing daily 10x10 crosswords by two constructors, Malaika Handa and Stella Zawistowski. New York ' s news blog
4370-584: The Pages of the Forward (2007), Hamill evokes the heyday of American Yiddish journalism. His text for The Times Square Gym (1996) enhances John Goodman's photographs of prizefighters, while his introduction to Garden of Dreams: Madison Square Garden (2004) offers a context for the sports photography of George Kalinski. Hamill's Irish heritage informs the text for The Irish Face in America (2004), as seen by
4465-414: The addition of columnist Jonathan Chait in 2011 and the longtime political blogger Ed Kilgore in 2015. The Cut launched on the New York website in 2008, edited by Amy Odell, to replace a previous fashion week blog, Show & Talk . In 2012 it became a standalone website, shifting focus from fashion to women's issues more generally. Stella Bugbee became editor-in-chief in 2017, and presided over
4560-772: The category "reporters, correspondents and broadcast news analysts" will decline 9 percent between 2016 and 2026. A worldwide sample of 27,500 journalists in 67 countries in 2012–2016 produced the following profile: In 2019 the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Digital News Report described the future for journalists in South Africa as “grim” because of low online revenue and plummeting advertising. In 2020 Reporters Without Borders secretary general Christophe Deloire said journalists in developing countries were suffering political interference because
4655-415: The classical-music scene. Barbara Goldsmith wrote a series called "The Creative Environment", in which she interviewed such subjects as Marcel Breuer , I. M. Pei , George Balanchine , and Pablo Picasso about their process. Gael Greene , writing under the rubric "The Insatiable Critic", reviewed restaurants , cultivating a baroque writing style that leaned heavily on sexual metaphor . The office for
4750-505: The co-creator of Spy , a humor monthly of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Andersen quickly replaced several staff members, bringing in emerging and established writers (including Jim Cramer , Walter Kirn , Michael Tomasky , and Jacob Weisberg ) and editors (including Michael Hirschorn, Kim France, Dany Levy , and Maer Roshan), and generally making the magazine faster-paced, younger in outlook, and more knowing in tone. In August 1996, Bill Reilly fired Andersen from his editorship, citing
4845-531: The country reportedly go unsolved. Bulgarian Victoria Marinova was beaten, raped and strangled. Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. From 2008 to 2019, Freedom Forum 's now-defunct Newseum in Washington, D.C. featured a Journalists Memorial which honored several thousand journalists around the world who had died or were killed while reporting
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#17327810221824940-439: The decade, including James Brady , Joe Armstrong (who also served as publisher), John Berendt , and (briefly) Jane Amsterdam . In 1980, Murdoch hired Edward Kosner , the former editor of Newsweek , to replace Armstrong. Murdoch also bought Cue , a listings magazine founded by Mort Glankoff that had covered the city since 1932, and folded it into New York , simultaneously creating a useful going-out guide and eliminating
5035-500: The early 21st century, the magazine began to diversify that online presence, introducing subject-specific websites under the nymag.com umbrella: Vulture , The Cut , Intelligencer, The Strategist, Curbed , and Grub Street . In 2018, New York Media, the parent company of New York magazine, launched a digital subscription product for those sites. On September 24, 2019, Vox Media announced that it had purchased New York magazine and its parent company, New York Media. New York
5130-585: The first year of the magazine's existence, the composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim contributed an extremely complex cryptic crossword to every third issue. Sondheim eventually ceded the job in order to write his next musical, and Richard Maltby, Jr. took over . For many years the magazine also syndicated The Times of London's cryptic crossword. Beginning in early 1969, for two weeks out of every three, Sondheim's friend Mary Ann Madden edited an extremely popular witty literary competition calling for readers to send in humorous poetry or other bits of wordplay on
5225-719: The following March, reducing from 42 issues per year to 26 plus three special editions. In April 2016, the magazine announced the launch of Select All, a new vertical dedicated to technology and innovation. In 2019, Select All was shuttered and folded into the broadened "Intelligencer" news site. In the mid-2010s, New York launched several podcasts jointly produced with other outlets, all short-lived. Its first independently owned podcast, Good One: A Podcast About Jokes, hosted by Jesse David Fox, launched in February 2017. The magazine also expanded into television, collaborating with Michael Hirschorn's Ish Entertainment and Bravo to produce
5320-579: The form of a targeted sexual violation, often in reprisal for their work. Mob-related sexual violence aimed against journalists covering public events; or the sexual abuse of journalists in detention or captivity. Many of these crimes are not reported as a result of powerful cultural and professional stigmas. Increasingly, journalists (particularly women) are abused and harassed online, via hate speech , cyber-bullying , cyber-stalking , doxing, trolling, public shaming , intimidation and threats. According to Reporters Without Borders ' 2018 annual report, it
5415-496: The fourth estate being driven by the fifth estate of public relations. Journalists can face violence and intimidation for exercising their fundamental right to freedom of expression . The range of threats they are confronted with include murder, kidnapping , hostage-taking, offline and online harassment, intimidation , enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention and torture. Women in journalism also face specific dangers and are especially vulnerable to sexual assault, whether in
5510-404: The largest number of currently-imprisoned journalists are Turkey (95), China (34), Iran (34), Eritrea (17), Burma (13), Uzbekistan (6), Vietnam (5), Cuba (4), Ethiopia (4) and Sudan (3). Apart from physical harm, journalists are harmed psychologically. This applies especially to war reporters, but their editorial offices at home often do not know how to deal appropriately with
5605-488: The magazine about the best place to get a croissant or a beret, it was clear that Wasserstein wanted a publication that was the best place to learn about the complicated apparatus that is modern New York. In enabling as much, Mr. Wasserstein recaptured the original intent of the magazine's founder, Clay Felker ." Wasserstein's children retained control of the magazine, which continued to be overseen by his deputy Anup Bagaria. In 2006, New York 's website, NYMag.com, underwent
5700-599: The magazine has won several National Magazine Awards , including the award for general excellence in 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2016, as well as the 2013 award for Magazine of the Year. Since the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism opened to magazines as well as newspapers in 2016, New York ' s critics have won twice ( Jerry Saltz in 2018, and Andrea Long Chu in 2023) and been finalists twice more ( Justin Davidson in 2020 and Craig Jenkins in 2021). In 2009,
5795-504: The magazine laid off several staff members and temporary employees. On September 24, 2019, Vox Media announced that it had purchased the magazine's parent company, New York Media LLC. Pam Wasserstein, the CEO of New York Media, became Vox Media's president, working closely with its CEO, Jim Bankoff . After the merger with Vox Media, May 2020, Vox Media announced it was merging the real estate site Curbed into New York and refocusing
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#17327810221825890-426: The magazine was on the top floor of the old Tammany Hall clubhouse at 207 East 32nd Street, which Glaser owned. The magazine did not consistently turn a profit in these early years: One board member, Alan Patricof, later said that "it may have touched into the black for a quarter, then out of it, but it was not significantly profitable." Wolfe, a regular contributor to the magazine, wrote a story in 1970 that captured
5985-419: The magazine. The magazine's first website, under the url nymetro.com, appeared in 2001. In 2002 and 2003, Wolff , the media critic Miller had hired in 1998, won two National Magazine Awards for his columns. At the end of 2003, New York was sold again, to a family trust controlled by financier Bruce Wasserstein , for $ 55 million. Wasserstein, early in 2004, replaced Miller with Adam Moss , who had founded
6080-870: The news. After the Newseum closed in December 2019, supporters of freedom of the press persuaded the United States Congress in December 2020 to authorize the construction of a memorial to fallen journalists on public land with private funds. By May 2023, the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation had begun the design of the memorial. In the US, nearly all journalists have attended university, but only about half majored in journalism. Journalists who work in television or for newspapers are more likely to have studied journalism in college than journalists working for
6175-408: The nightlife of city emerging from Covid lockdown; "The Year I Ate New York", written in 2022 by Tammie Taclamarian and in 2023 by E. Alex Jung; and a collection of limited-series newsletters devoted to Succession , …And Just Like That , and prominent New York City court cases. Notable stories published by New York in this decade include Nicholson Baker 's investigation of the possibility that
6270-478: The photographer Jim Smith. Hamill also wrote about comic strips, of which he was a collector. Among his writings on the subject are an introduction to Terry and the Pirates : Volume Two by Milton Caniff (2007), and an introductory text for a revised version of Al Hirschfeld 's The Speakeasies of 1932 (2003). He also contributed an introduction to Jerry Robinson : Ambassador of Comics (2010). Hamill penned
6365-741: The photography of Jake Rajs. New York Exposed: Photographs from the Daily News (2001) contains an extended essay about the New York Daily News and its role in American photojournalism . In his introduction to Mexico: The Revolution and Beyond (2003), Hamill writes about Agustin Victor Casasola, whose photographs recorded the Revolution of 1910–1920. In his introduction to A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from
6460-510: The pop-science rubric Science of Us , which previously existed as a standalone site. In 2024, 'The Cut' published an article in which a woman confessed to abusing and neglecting her pet cat, Lucky. Advocates take to social media by storm seeking justice for Lucky. Grub Street , covering food and restaurants, was expanded in 2009 to five additional cities served by former nymag.com sister site MenuPages.com. In 2013 Grub Street announced that it would close its city blogs outside New York and bring
6555-495: The presidency of Barack Obama . It is also known for its arts and culture criticism, its food writing (its restaurant critic Adam Platt won a James Beard Award in 2009, and its Underground Gourmet critics Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld won two National Magazine Awards ), and its service journalism (its "Strategist" department won seven National Magazine Awards in eleven years. Since its sale, redesign, and relaunch in 2004,
6650-658: The publication's financial results. According to Andersen, he was fired for refusing to kill a story about a rivalry between investment bankers Felix Rohatyn and Steven Rattner that had upset Henry Kravis , a member of the firm's ownership group. His replacement was Caroline Miller, who came from Seventeen , another K-III title. In part owing to the company's financial constraints, Miller and her editors focused on cultivating younger writers, including Ariel Levy , Jennifer Senior , Robert Kolker , and Vanessa Grigoriadis . She also hired Michael Wolff , whose writing about media and politics became an extremely popular component of
6745-566: The relaunched magazine, called New York , showcased the work of many talented Tribune contributors, including Tom Wolfe , Barbara Goldsmith , Gail Sheehy , Dick Schaap, and Jimmy Breslin . The Tribune went out of business in 1966, and New York was briefly revived as part of a combined paper, the World Journal Tribune , that lasted until May 1967. Shortly after the WJT closed, Felker and his partner, Milton Glaser , purchased
6840-606: The reporters they expose to danger. Hence, a systematic and sustainable way of psychological support for traumatized journalists is strongly needed. Few and fragmented support programs exist so far. On 8 August 2023, Iran's Journalists' Day, Tehran Journalists' Association head Akbar Montajabi noted over 100 journalists arrested amid protests, while HamMihan newspaper exposed repression against 76 media workers since September 2022 following Mahsa Amini's death-triggered mass protests, leading to legal consequences for journalists including Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh. The relationship between
6935-495: The rights to the nameplate, backed by Wall Street bankers led by Armand G. Erpf (the magazine's first chairman, who Felker attributed as the financial architect of the magazine ) and C. Gerald Goldsmith (Barbara Goldsmith's husband at the time), and reincarnated the magazine as a stand-alone glossy weekly. Joining them was managing editor Jack Nessel, Felker's number-two at the Herald Tribune. New York 's first issue
7030-436: The roles they play in the process. These include reporters, correspondents , citizen journalists , editors , editorial writers , columnists and photojournalists . A reporter is a type of journalist who researches , writes and reports on information in order to present using sources . This may entail conducting interviews , information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in
7125-466: The senator to run for the United States presidency . He subsequently worked for Kennedy's campaign and covered it as a journalist. He was one of four men who disarmed Sirhan Sirhan of his gun in the immediate aftermath of the senator's assassination . Hamill died on August 5, 2020, at NewYork–Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital . He was 85, and suffered from heart and kidney failure at
7220-500: The short-lived New York weekly 7 Days and then edited The New York Times Magazine . That fall, Moss and his staff relaunched the magazine, most notably with two new sections: "The Strategist", devoted mostly to service, food, and shopping, and "The Culture Pages", covering the city's arts scene. Moss also rehired Kurt Andersen as a columnist. In early 2006, the company relaunched the magazine's website, previously nymetro.com, as nymag.com. New York in this period won design awards at
7315-414: The site also published "Everywhere and Nowhere," Lindsay Peoples's essay about the fashion industry's inhospitability to Black voices and points of view. In 2019, The Cut published an excerpt from E. Jean Carroll 's book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, mostly about Donald J. Trump 's sexual assault on her. In 2021, Peoples became the site's next editor-in-chief. The Cut also incorporates
7410-692: The site on its roots in New York City. That year, New York also expanded its podcast business, adding Pivot , On With Kara Swisher , Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel , Switched on Pop , and Into It With Sam Sanders to its lineup. The company also saw an expansion of its intellectual property into television and movies, notably with Hustlers , a feature film adapted from a story by Jessica Pressler. In 2022, three television series adapted from New York properties appeared: Inventing Anna and The Watcher on Netflix, and Sex Diaries on HBO. The magazine also moved into publishing an array of digital newsletters, including "Are U Coming?", which documented
7505-513: The source often leads, but journalists commonly object to this notion for two reasons: The dance metaphor goes on to state: A relationship with sources that is too cozy is potentially compromising of journalists' integrity and risks becoming collusive. Journalists have typically favored a more robust, conflict model, based on a crucial assumption that if the media are to function as watchdogs of powerful economic and political interests, journalists must establish their independence of sources or risk
7600-552: The spirit of the magazine (if not the age): " Radical Chic : That Party at Lenny's". The controversial and often criticized article described a benefit party for the Black Panthers , held in Leonard Bernstein 's apartment, in a collision of high culture and low that paralleled New York magazine's ethos and expressed Wolfe's interest in status and class. In 1972, New York ' s year-end issue incorporated
7695-468: The story was a sensation and served as the basis for the film Saturday Night Fever . Twenty years later, in a followup story in New York , Cohn admitted that he had made up the character and most of the story. In 1976, the Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch bought the magazine in a hostile takeover , forcing Felker and Glaser out. A succession of top editors followed through the remainder of
7790-531: The teens hailed “from a world of crack, welfare, guns, knives, indifference and ignorance…a land with no fathers…to smash, hurt, rob, stomp, rape. The enemies were rich. The enemies were white.” Two collections of his selected journalism have been published: Irrational Ravings and Piecework (1996). For the Library of America he edited two volumes of the journalism of A.J. Liebling . In 1998, he published an extended essay on contemporary journalism titled News
7885-752: The time of his death, in addition to having fractured his right hip in a fall. Hamill received the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2005. In 2010 Hamill received an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from St. John's University . In 2010 he was presented the Louis Auchincloss Prize from the Museum of the City of New York . In 2014 Hamill received
7980-532: The time or access to information to research themselves, then communicating an accurate and understandable version to the public as a teacher and policy advisor. In his best-known books, Public Opinion (1922) and The Phantom Public (1925), Lippmann argued that most people lacked the capacity, time and motivation to follow and analyze news of the many complex policy questions that troubled society. Nor did they often experience most social problems or directly access expert insights. These limitations were made worse by
8075-415: The urbane sensibility of the print magazine for a national and international audience, and attract readership that had been lost by print magazines in general, particularly fashion and entertainment outlets. By July 2010, digital ads accounted for one-third of the company's advertising revenue. David Carr noted in an August 2010 column, "In a way, New York magazine is fast becoming a digital enterprise with
8170-403: The week following Hurricane Sandy , so the editorial staff published an issue from a quickly constructed temporary newsroom in the midtown office of Wasserstein & Company. The issue's cover, shot by photographer Iwan Baan from a helicopter and showing Manhattan half in darkness, almost immediately became an iconic image of the storm; Time called it the magazine cover of the year. The image
8265-455: Was coined for a 1985 cover story in the magazine. Murdoch got out of the magazine business in 1991 by selling his holdings to K-III Communications , a partnership controlled by financier Henry Kravis . Subsequent budget pressure from K-III frustrated Kosner, and he left in 1993, taking over the editorship of Esquire magazine. After several months during which the magazine was run by managing editor Peter Herbst, K-III hired Kurt Andersen ,
8360-535: Was created in 1963 as the Sunday-magazine supplement of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper. The Herald Tribune , then in financial difficulty, had recently been sold to John Hay Whitney , and was looking to revitalize its business with an increased focus on editorial excellence, which included a relaunch of the Sunday edition and its magazine. Edited first by Sheldon Zalaznick and then by Clay Felker ,
8455-655: Was dated April 8, 1968. Several writers came from the magazine's earlier incarnation, including Breslin, Wolfe (who wrote "You and Your Big Mouth: How the Honks and Wonks Reveal the Phonetic Truth about Status" in the inaugural issue), and George Goodman , a financial writer who wrote under the pseudonym " Adam Smith ." Glaser and his deputy Walter Bernard designed and laid out the magazine and hired many notable artists, including Jim McMullan , Robert Grossman , and David Levine , to produce covers and illustrations. Within
8550-629: Was inspired by the book to complete his own memoir, Angela's Ashes . Hamill's memoir Downtown: My Manhattan includes his reporting for the New York Daily News on the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, at which he was present. Hamill's book on the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera was inspired by time spent in Mexico City in 1957 and his presence at Rivera's funeral. In Tools as Art (1995), Hamill surveys
8645-585: Was introduced to Anne Devlin in 1933 and they married the following year. Billy Hamill had jobs as a grocery clerk, in a war plant, and later in a factory producing lighting fixtures. Anne Hamill was employed in Wanamaker's department store, and she also worked as a domestic, a nurses' aide, and a cashier in the RKO movie chain. Hamill's younger brother, Denis, also became a columnist for the Daily News . Hamill attended Holy Name of Jesus grammar school and delivered
8740-474: Was introduced under the name Daily Intelligencer, expanding upon the weekly magazine's front-of-the-book Intelligencer section. Launched in 2006, it was initially written mostly by Jessica Pressler and Chris Rovzar, whose coverage focused on local politics, media, and Wall Street but also included extensive chatter about the television show Gossip Girl . Over its first half-decade, the site expanded in reach and became more focused on national politics, notably with
8835-525: Was named Best News & Business Cover by ASME. New York won back-to-back ASME Cover of the Year awards in 2012 and 2013, for "Is She Just Too Old for This?" and "The City and the Storm" respectively. Design director Chris Dixon and photography director Jody Quon were named "Design Team of the Year" by Adweek in 2008. When Bruce Wasserstein died in 2009, David Carr of The New York Times wrote that "While previous owners had required constant features in
8930-625: Was republished as a poster by the Museum of Modern Art, with proceeds benefiting Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. The following spring, New York took the top honor at the National Magazine Awards, again receiving the Magazine of the Year award for its print and digital coverage. In December 2013, as readership for its digital sites continued to build, the magazine announced plans to shift the print edition to biweekly publication
9025-495: Was the worst year on record for deadly violence and abuse toward journalists; there was a 15 percent increase in such killings since 2017, with 80 killed, 348 imprisoned and 60 held hostage. Yaser Murtaja was shot by an Israeli army sniper. Rubén Pat was gunned down outside a beach bar in Mexico. Mexico was described by Reporters Without Borders as "one of world's deadliest countries for the media"; 90% of attacks on journalists in
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