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The New Yorker was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a New York Times reporter, and debuted on the 21st of February, 1925. They partnered with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann to establish the F-R Publishing Company, with the magazine's first offices at 25 West 45th Street in Manhattan.
Harold Ross edited the magazine from its founding until his death in 1951. He was followed by William Shawn (1951-1987), Robert Gottlieb (1987-1992), Tina Brown (1992-1998), and David Remnick, who has been editor since July 1998.
The New Yorker has won eleven Pulitzer Prizes since 2014, the first year magazines became eligible for the prize.
The most reprinted cartoon is Peter Steiner's 1993 drawing of two dogs at a computer, with one saying, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." According to former cartoon editor Robert Mankoff, Steiner and the magazine have split more than $100,000 in licensing and reprinting fees from that single image.
The fact-checking process originated after a 1927 article about Edna St. Vincent Millay contained multiple factual errors, prompting her mother to threaten a libel lawsuit. The magazine developed extensive fact-checking procedures in response, and those procedures became integral to its reputation by the 1940s. As of 2025, about 30 people work in the fact-checking department.
The cover appeared on the issue dated the 29th of March 1976, and depicts the world as seen by a self-absorbed New Yorker: Manhattan's streets in full detail, the rest of the United States compressed to a few city blocks, and the Pacific Ocean barely wider than the Hudson River. The illustration later inspired the poster for the 1984 film Moscow on the Hudson, leading to a successful copyright lawsuit, Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.