Great Stories: David Remnick, Editor of The New Yorker & Hairdresser to Katherine Graham
It’s the birthday of the current editor of The New Yorker magazine, David Remnick, born in Hackensack, New Jersey (1958). He’s only the fifth editor in the 84-year history of the magazine.
He had no professional editorial experience before taking the job a decade ago. He was a journalist, and one of the best around. After graduating from Princeton with a comparative literature degree, he went to work for The Washington Post as a cub reporter, covering football games, police activity, and celebrity gossip. Then, a post as Moscow foreign correspondent opened up, and he — in his late 20s and newly married — jumped at the chance.
