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David Remnick
David Remnick
	Remnick at a New Yorker conference in 2008
Born	October 29, 1958 (age 66); Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S.
Education	Princeton University (BA)
Occupation(s)	Magazine editor, journalist, writer
Title	Editor of The New Yorker
Spouse	Esther Fein (m. 1987)
Children	3

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David J. Remnick (born October 29, 1958) is an American journalist, writer, and editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, and is also the author of Resurrection and King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero. Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998. He was named "Editor of the Year" by Advertising Age in 2000. Before joining The New Yorker, Remnick was a reporter and the Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post. He also has served on the New York Public Library board of trustees and is a member of the American Philosophical Society.^[1] In 2010, he published his sixth book, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.

Background

Remnick was born to a Jewish family^[2] in Hackensack, New Jersey, the son of Barbara (Seigel), an art teacher, and Edward C. Remnick, a dentist.^[3]^[4] He was raised in Hillsdale, New Jersey, in a Jewish home with, he has said, "a lot of books around."^[5] He attended Yavneh Academy in Paramus.^[6] Remnick was also a childhood friend of comedian Bill Maher.^[7] He attended Pascack Valley High School in Hillsdale.^[8] At Pascack Valley High School he studied Russian and was thereby inspired to also study the politics and culture of the USSR.

He was graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1981 with an A.B. in comparative literature; there he met writer John McPhee, was a member of the University Press Club, and helped found The Nassau Weekly.^[9] Remnick completed a 122-page-long senior thesis titled "The Sympathetic Thread: 'Leaves of Grass' 1855-1865."^[10] Remnick has implied that after college he wanted to write novels, but due to the illnesses of his parents, he needed to get a job. Wanting to be a writer, he took a job at The Washington Post.^[11]

Career

The Washington Post

Remnick began his reporting career at The Washington Post in 1982 shortly after his graduation from Princeton.^[12] His first assignment was to cover the United States Football League.^[13] After six years, in 1988 he became the newspaper's Moscow correspondent, which provided him with the material for Lenin's Tomb. He also received the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism in 1993.^[14]

The New Yorker

Remnick became a staff writer at The New Yorker in September 1992, after ten years at The Washington Post.^[12]

Remnick's 1997 New Yorker article "Kid Dynamite Blows Up", about boxer Mike Tyson, was nominated for a National Magazine Award.^[12] In July 1998, he became editor, succeeding Tina Brown.^[15] Remnick promoted Hendrik Hertzberg, a former Jimmy Carter speechwriter and former editor of The New Republic, to write the lead pieces in "Talk of the Town", the magazine's opening section. In 2005, Remnick earned $1 million for his work as the magazine's editor.^[16]

In 2003, Remnick penned an editorial in The New Yorker in the lead-up to the Iraq War saying "the United States has been wrong, politically and morally, about Iraq more than once in the past... but... a return to a hollow pursuit of containment will be the most dangerous option of all."^[17] In the months leading up to the war, the magazine also published several articles connecting Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida, often relying on unnamed sources, or simply the claims of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, as evidence. The magazine received some criticism for their journalism during this period.^[18] The claims that Hussein and al-Qaida had a close operational relationship were false, as confirmed by numerous sources including a U.S military study in 2008.^[19]

In 2004, for the first time in its 80-year history, The New Yorker endorsed a presidential candidate, John Kerry.^[20]

In May 2009, Remnick was the subject of an extended Twitter thread by former New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum, whose contract with the magazine was not renewed by Remnick. The tweets, written over the course of a week, described the difficult relationship between Baum and Remnick, his editor.^[21]

Remnick's biography of President Barack Obama, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, was released on April 6, 2010. It features hundreds of interviews with friends, colleagues, and other witnesses to Obama's rise to the presidency of the United States.

In 2010, Remnick lent his support to the campaign urging the release of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery and ordering the murder of her husband by her lover.^[22]

Remnick provided guest commentary and contributed to NBC coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia, including the opening ceremony and commentary for NBC News.^{[citation needed]}

Remnick is also the host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, produced by WNYC and The New Yorker.

In May 2014, Remnick served as the commencement speaker at the 160th commencement of Syracuse University.^[23]^[24]

Personal life

In 1987, Remnick married reporter Esther Fein in a Jewish ceremony at the Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan.^[25] Fein has worked as a reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post.^[25] The couple has three children, Alex, Noah, and Natasha.^[5] Remnick is fluent in Russian.^[26]

Works

References

^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
^ Rosenberg, MJ (May 25, 2011). "Israel: The Ground Shifts". Huffington Post.
^ Coussin, Orna (February 9, 2006). "How to put a legendary magazine back on its feet". Haaretz.
^ Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). "1994: David Reminck", in: Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press. p. 276. Archived April 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b Wood, Gaby (September 10, 2006). "The quiet American". The Observer. Retrieved April 10, 2011. "David Remnick was born in 1958 and grew up in Hillsdale, New Jersey, where his father was a dentist and his mother an art teacher."
^ "Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show". The New Yorker. October 8, 2021.
^ Hagan, Joe (April 6, 2012). ""It Won't Hurt You. It's Vapor."". Retrieved November 22, 2016.
^ Sale, Jonathan (October 23, 2011). "Passed/Failed: An education in the life of David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker". The Independent. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
^ "David Remnick selected as Class Day speaker". Princeton University. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
^ Remnick, David J. Princeton University. Department of Comparative Literature (ed.). "The Sympathetic Thread: 'Leaves of Grass' 1855-1865". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Levy, Nicole (November 13, 2013). "David Remnick laments the 'cultural serfdom' of young writers on the web". POLITICO Media. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "David Remnick". State University of New York: New York State Writers Institute.
^ The Tony Kornheiser Show, WTEM, April 13, 2010.
^ "1993 George Polk Award Winners". LIU. Retrieved April 9, 2023.
^ Harper, Jennifer (July 13, 1998). "New Yorker Magazine Names New Editor". The Washington Times. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. Archived from the original on October 10, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2016 – via HighBeam Research.
^ "Salary Guide: Who Makes How Much", New York magazine (2005).
^ Remnick, David (February 3, 2003). "Making a Case". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
^ Lazare, Daniel (May 15, 2003). "The New Yorker goes to war". The Nation. Retrieved March 17, 2023.
^ Schor, Elena (March 13, 2008). "Saddam Hussein had no direct ties to al-Qaida, says Pentagon study". The Guardian. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
^ "New Yorker magazine endorsement of John Kerry". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 9, 2006.
^ Linkins, Jason (August 5, 2009). "Dan Baum, Fired By New Yorker, Recounting His Story On Twitter". The Huffington Post. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
^ Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (July 22, 2010). "Iran stoning case woman ordered to name campaigners". The Guardian. London.
^ "Commencement Speech by New Yorker Editor David Remnick". SU News. May 11, 2014. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
^ Baker, Chris (May 12, 2014). "David Remnick at SU: If commencement isn't the right forum for a socially charged speech, what is?". syracuse.com. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Esther B. Fein Is Wed To David Jay Remnick". The New York Times. October 26, 1987.
^ Hamill, Pete (May 14, 2006). "A Ringside Seat". The New York Times. Retrieved April 22, 2011.

External links

David Remnick at The New Yorker
David Remnick at Library of Congress
David Remnick at IMDb
Interview list
Appearances on C-SPAN
Interview in British magazine New Statesman
"Big Think Interview with David Remnick". Transcript and audio-video recording (36:23) with index. Big Think. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
Interview in Spanish magazine Jot down, August 2013
Covering Trump: what happens when journalism, politics, and fake news collide, a discussion during a live chat at the Columbia Journalism Review with the Guardian and Reuters discussing the dangers of normalizing a Donald Trump presidency, March 2017
David Remnick on the Muck Rack journalist listing site

Preceded by Tina Brown	Editor of The New Yorker 1998–present	Succeeded by Incumbent

[1] "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 28, 2021.

[2] Rosenberg, MJ (May 25, 2011). "Israel: The Ground Shifts". Huffington Post.

[3] Coussin, Orna (February 9, 2006). "How to put a legendary magazine back on its feet". Haaretz.

[4] Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). "1994: David Reminck", in: Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press. p. 276. Archived April 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine

[wood-5] Wood, Gaby (September 10, 2006). "The quiet American". The Observer. Retrieved April 10, 2011. "David Remnick was born in 1958 and grew up in Hillsdale, New Jersey, where his father was a dentist and his mother an art teacher."

[6] "Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show". The New Yorker. October 8, 2021.

[Nymag1-7] Hagan, Joe (April 6, 2012). ""It Won't Hurt You. It's Vapor."". Retrieved November 22, 2016.

[Independent1-8] Sale, Jonathan (October 23, 2011). "Passed/Failed: An education in the life of David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker". The Independent. Retrieved November 22, 2016.

[9] "David Remnick selected as Class Day speaker". Princeton University. Retrieved August 10, 2019.

[10] Remnick, David J. Princeton University. Department of Comparative Literature (ed.). "The Sympathetic Thread: 'Leaves of Grass' 1855-1865". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[11] Levy, Nicole (November 13, 2013). "David Remnick laments the 'cultural serfdom' of young writers on the web". POLITICO Media. Retrieved August 10, 2019.

[NYSWI-12] "David Remnick". State University of New York: New York State Writers Institute.

[13] The Tony Kornheiser Show, WTEM, April 13, 2010.

[14] "1993 George Polk Award Winners". LIU. Retrieved April 9, 2023.

[15] Harper, Jennifer (July 13, 1998). "New Yorker Magazine Names New Editor". The Washington Times. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. Archived from the original on October 10, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2016 – via HighBeam Research.

[16] "Salary Guide: Who Makes How Much", New York magazine (2005).

[17] Remnick, David (February 3, 2003). "Making a Case". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 16, 2011.

[18] Lazare, Daniel (May 15, 2003). "The New Yorker goes to war". The Nation. Retrieved March 17, 2023.

[19] Schor, Elena (March 13, 2008). "Saddam Hussein had no direct ties to al-Qaida, says Pentagon study". The Guardian. Retrieved September 1, 2019.

[endorse-20] "New Yorker magazine endorsement of John Kerry". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 9, 2006.

[21] Linkins, Jason (August 5, 2009). "Dan Baum, Fired By New Yorker, Recounting His Story On Twitter". The Huffington Post. Retrieved April 22, 2011.

[22] Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (July 22, 2010). "Iran stoning case woman ordered to name campaigners". The Guardian. London.

[23] "Commencement Speech by New Yorker Editor David Remnick". SU News. May 11, 2014. Retrieved May 14, 2019.

[24] Baker, Chris (May 12, 2014). "David Remnick at SU: If commencement isn't the right forum for a socially charged speech, what is?". syracuse.com. Retrieved May 14, 2019.

[NYTWedFein-25] "Esther B. Fein Is Wed To David Jay Remnick". The New York Times. October 26, 1987.

[26] Hamill, Pete (May 14, 2006). "A Ringside Seat". The New York Times. Retrieved April 22, 2011.

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-'''David J. Remnick''' (born October 29, 1958) is an American journalist and writer. He won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1994 for his book ''[[Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire]]'' and is also the author of ''Resurrection'' and ''King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero''. Remnick has been editor of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine since 1998. He was named Editor of the Year by ''[[Advertising Age]]'' in 2000. Before joining ''The New Yorker'', Remnick was a reporter and the Moscow correspondent for ''[[The Washington Post]]''. He also has served on the [[New York Public Library]] board of trustees and is a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=David+Remnick&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-28|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> In 2010, he published his sixth book, ''[[The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama]]''.
+'''David J. Remnick''' (born October 29, 1958) is an American journalist, writer, and editor. He won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1994 for his book ''[[Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire]]'', and is also the author of ''Resurrection'' and ''King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero''. Remnick has been editor of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine since 1998. He was named "Editor of the Year" by ''[[Advertising Age]]'' in 2000. Before joining ''The New Yorker'', Remnick was a reporter and the Moscow correspondent for ''[[The Washington Post]]''. He also has served on the [[New York Public Library]] board of trustees and is a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=David+Remnick&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-28|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> In 2010, he published his sixth book, ''[[The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama]]''.
 ==Background==
-Remnick was born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family<ref>{{Cite web|last= Rosenberg |first=MJ |title= Israel: The Ground Shifts |publisher=[[Huffington Post]]|date=May 25, 2011 |url= https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/david-remnick-israel_b_836800.html }}</ref> in [[Hackensack, New Jersey]], the son of Barbara (Seigel), an art teacher, and Edward C. Remnick, a dentist.<ref>Coussin, Orna (February 9, 2006). [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=680598 "How to put a legendary magazine back on its feet"]. ''[[Haaretz]]''.</ref><ref>Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). "[https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA276 1994: David Reminck]", in: ''Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners''. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press. p. 276. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427113116/https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA276 |date=April 27, 2016 }}</ref> He was raised in [[Hillsdale, New Jersey]], in a Jewish home with, he has said, "a lot of books around."<ref name="wood">Wood, Gaby (September 10, 2006). [https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2006/sep/10/observermagazine "The quiet American"]. ''[[The Observer]]''. Retrieved April 10, 2011. "David Remnick was born in 1958 and grew up in [[Hillsdale, New Jersey]], where his father was a dentist and his mother an art teacher."</ref> He was also a childhood friend of comedian [[Bill Maher]].<ref name="Nymag1">{{cite web|last1=Hagan|first1=Joe|title="It Won't Hurt You. It's Vapor."|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/bill-maher-2012-4/index3.html|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> He attended [[Pascack Valley High School]] in Hillsdale.<ref name="Independent1">{{cite web|last1=Sale|first1=Jonathan|title=Passed/Failed: An education in the life of David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/passedfailed-an-education-in-the-life-of-david-remnick-editor-of-the-new-yorker-420607.html|website=The Independent|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> It was at Pascack Valley High School that he studied Russian as a language and was inspired to study the politics and culture of the USSR.
+Remnick was born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family<ref>{{Cite web|last= Rosenberg |first=MJ |title= Israel: The Ground Shifts |publisher=[[Huffington Post]]|date=May 25, 2011 |url= https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/david-remnick-israel_b_836800.html }}</ref> in [[Hackensack, New Jersey]], the son of Barbara (Seigel), an art teacher, and Edward C. Remnick, a dentist.<ref>Coussin, Orna (February 9, 2006). [https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/2006-02-09/ty-article/how-to-put-a-legendary-magazine-back-on-its-feet/0000017f-e9eb-dc91-a17f-fdef28f20000 "How to put a legendary magazine back on its feet"]. ''[[Haaretz]]''.</ref><ref>Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). "[https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA276 1994: David Reminck]", in: ''Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners''. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press. p. 276. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427113116/https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA276 |date=April 27, 2016 }}</ref> He was raised in [[Hillsdale, New Jersey]], in a Jewish home with, he has said, "a lot of books around."<ref name="wood">Wood, Gaby (September 10, 2006). [https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2006/sep/10/observermagazine "The quiet American"]. ''[[The Observer]]''. Retrieved April 10, 2011. "David Remnick was born in 1958 and grew up in [[Hillsdale, New Jersey]], where his father was a dentist and his mother an art teacher."</ref> He attended [[Yavneh Academy (New Jersey)|Yavneh Academy]] in Paramus.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/paul-mccartney-doesnt-really-want-to-stop-the-show|title=Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show|magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=October 8, 2021}}</ref> Remnick was also a childhood friend of comedian [[Bill Maher]].<ref name="Nymag1">{{cite web|last1=Hagan|first1=Joe|title="It Won't Hurt You. It's Vapor."|date=April 6, 2012 |url=http://nymag.com/news/features/bill-maher-2012-4/index3.html|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> He attended [[Pascack Valley High School]] in Hillsdale.<ref name="Independent1">{{cite web|last1=Sale|first1=Jonathan|title=Passed/Failed: An education in the life of David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/passedfailed-an-education-in-the-life-of-david-remnick-editor-of-the-new-yorker-420607.html|website=The Independent|date=October 23, 2011|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> At Pascack Valley High School he studied Russian and was thereby inspired to also study the politics and culture of the USSR.
-He was graduated [[summa cum laude]] from [[Princeton University]] in 1981 with an A.B. in comparative literature; there, he met writer [[John McPhee]], was a member of the [[University Press Club]], and helped found ''[[The Nassau Weekly]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/04/04/david-remnick-selected-class-day-speaker|title=David Remnick selected as Class Day speaker|website=Princeton University|language=en|access-date=August 10, 2019}}</ref> Remnick completed a 122-page long senior thesis titled "The Sympathetic Thread: 'Leaves of Grass' 1855-1865."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Remnick|first=David J.|editor-last=Princeton University. Department of Comparative Literature|title=The Sympathetic Thread: 'Leaves of Grass' 1855-1865|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp012j62s683d|language=en}}</ref> Remnick has implied that after college he wanted to write novels, but due to the illnesses of his parents, he needed to get a job. Remnick wanted to be a writer, so he chose a career in journalism, taking a job at ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://politi.co/21raXZ8|title=David Remnick laments the 'cultural serfdom' of young writers on the web|last=Levy|first=Nicole|website=POLITICO Media|language=en|access-date=August 10, 2019}}</ref>
+He was graduated [[summa cum laude]] from [[Princeton University]] in 1981 with an A.B. in comparative literature; there he met writer [[John McPhee]], was a member of the [[University Press Club]], and helped found ''[[The Nassau Weekly]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/04/04/david-remnick-selected-class-day-speaker|title=David Remnick selected as Class Day speaker|website=Princeton University|language=en|access-date=August 10, 2019}}</ref> Remnick completed a 122-page-long senior thesis titled "The Sympathetic Thread: 'Leaves of Grass' 1855-1865."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Remnick|first=David J.|editor-last=Princeton University. Department of Comparative Literature|title=The Sympathetic Thread: 'Leaves of Grass' 1855-1865|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp012j62s683d|language=en}}</ref> Remnick has implied that after college he wanted to write novels, but due to the illnesses of his parents, he needed to get a job. Wanting to be a writer, he took a job at ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://politi.co/21raXZ8|title=David Remnick laments the 'cultural serfdom' of young writers on the web|last=Levy|first=Nicole|website=POLITICO Media|date=November 13, 2013 |language=en|access-date=August 10, 2019}}</ref>
 ==Career==
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 ===''The Washington Post''===
-Remnick began his reporting career at ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 1982 shortly after his graduation from Princeton.<ref name="NYSWI">{{cite web|title=David Remnick|url=http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/remnickdavid.html|work=State University of New York: New York State Writers Institute}}</ref> His first assignment was to cover the [[United States Football League]].<ref>''The Tony Kornheiser Show'', WTEM, April 13, 2010.</ref> After six years, in 1988, he became the newspaper's [[Moscow]] correspondent, which provided him with the material for [[Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire|''Lenin's Tomb'']]. He also received the [[George Polk Award]] for excellence in journalism in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|title=1993 George Polk Award Winners|url=http://liu.edu/Polk/Articles/Past-Winners#1993|website=LIU|access-date=May 3, 2017}}</ref>
+Remnick began his reporting career at ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 1982 shortly after his graduation from Princeton.<ref name="NYSWI">{{cite web|title=David Remnick|url=http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/remnickdavid.html|work=State University of New York: New York State Writers Institute}}</ref> His first assignment was to cover the [[United States Football League]].<ref>''The Tony Kornheiser Show'', WTEM, April 13, 2010.</ref> After six years, in 1988 he became the newspaper's Moscow correspondent, which provided him with the material for [[Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire|''Lenin's Tomb'']]. He also received the [[George Polk Award]] for excellence in journalism in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|title=1993 George Polk Award Winners|url=https://liu.edu/polk-awards/past-winners#1993|website=LIU|access-date=April 9, 2023}}</ref>
 ===''The New Yorker''===
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 Remnick became a staff writer at ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in September 1992, after ten years at ''The Washington Post''.<ref name="NYSWI" />
-Remnick's 1997 ''New Yorker'' article "Kid Dynamite Blows Up", about boxer [[Mike Tyson]], was nominated for a [[National Magazine Awards|National Magazine Award]].<ref name="NYSWI" /> In July 1998, he became editor, succeeding [[Tina Brown]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harper |first=Jennifer |date=July 13, 1998 |title=New Yorker Magazine Names New Editor |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20900047.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010075840/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20900047.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 10, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Times |agency=Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News |access-date=December 22, 2016}}{{Subscription required|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref> Remnick promoted [[Hendrik Hertzberg]], a former [[Jimmy Carter]] speechwriter and former editor of ''[[The New Republic]]'', to write the lead pieces in "Talk of the Town", the magazine's opening section. In 2005, Remnick earned $1 million for his work as the magazine's editor.<ref>[http://nymag.com/guides/salary/14497/index3.html "Salary Guide: Who Makes How Much"], ''New York'' magazine (2005).</ref>
+Remnick's 1997 ''New Yorker'' article "Kid Dynamite Blows Up", about boxer [[Mike Tyson]], was nominated for a [[National Magazine Awards|National Magazine Award]].<ref name="NYSWI" /> In July 1998, he became editor, succeeding [[Tina Brown]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harper |first=Jennifer |date=July 13, 1998 |title=New Yorker Magazine Names New Editor |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20900047.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010075840/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20900047.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 10, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Times |agency=Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News |access-date=December 22, 2016|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref> Remnick promoted [[Hendrik Hertzberg]], a former [[Jimmy Carter]] speechwriter and former editor of ''[[The New Republic]]'', to write the lead pieces in "Talk of the Town", the magazine's opening section. In 2005, Remnick earned $1 million for his work as the magazine's editor.<ref>[http://nymag.com/guides/salary/14497/index3.html "Salary Guide: Who Makes How Much"], ''New York'' magazine (2005).</ref>
-In 2003, Remnick penned an editorial in ''The New Yorker'' in the lead-up to the Iraq War saying "the United States has been wrong, politically and morally, about Iraq more than once in the past... but... a return to a hollow pursuit of containment will be the most dangerous option of all."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/02/03/making-a-case|title=Making a Case|last=Remnick|first=David|date=February 3, 2003|work=The New Yorker|access-date=January 16, 2011}}</ref> In the months leading up to the war, the magazine also published several articles connecting Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida, often relying on unnamed sources, or simply the claims of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, as evidence. The magazine received some criticism for their journalism during this period.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/new-yorker-goes-war/|title=The ''New Yorker'' goes to war|work=The Nation|date=May 15, 2003|first=Daniel|last=Lazare|access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref> The claims that Hussein and al-Qaida had a close operational relationship were false, as confirmed by numerous sources including a U.S military study in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/13/iraq.usa|title=Saddam Hussein had no direct ties to al-Qaida, says Pentagon study|work=The Guardian|first=Elena|last=Schor|date=March 13, 2008|access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref>
+In 2003, Remnick penned an editorial in ''The New Yorker'' in the lead-up to the Iraq War saying "the United States has been wrong, politically and morally, about Iraq more than once in the past... but... a return to a hollow pursuit of containment will be the most dangerous option of all."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/02/03/making-a-case|title=Making a Case|last=Remnick|first=David|date=February 3, 2003|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=January 16, 2011}}</ref> In the months leading up to the war, the magazine also published several articles connecting Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida, often relying on unnamed sources, or simply the claims of Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld]], as evidence. The magazine received some criticism for their journalism during this period.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lazare |first=Daniel |date=May 15, 2003 |title=The New Yorker goes to war |work=The Nation |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/new-yorker-goes-war/ |access-date=Mar 17, 2023}}</ref> The claims that Hussein and al-Qaida had a close operational relationship were false, as confirmed by numerous sources including a U.S military study in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/13/iraq.usa|title=Saddam Hussein had no direct ties to al-Qaida, says Pentagon study|work=The Guardian|first=Elena|last=Schor|date=March 13, 2008|access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref>
-In 2004, for the first time in its 80-year history, ''The New Yorker'' endorsed a presidential candidate, [[John Kerry]].<ref name="endorse">{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?041101ta_talk_editors|title=''New Yorker'' magazine endorsement of John Kerry|access-date=May 9, 2006}}</ref>
+In 2004, for the first time in its 80-year history, ''The New Yorker'' endorsed a presidential candidate, [[John Kerry]].<ref name="endorse">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?041101ta_talk_editors|title=''New Yorker'' magazine endorsement of John Kerry|magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=May 9, 2006}}</ref>
-In May 2009, Remnick was the subject of an extended [[Twitter]] thread by former ''New Yorker'' staff writer Dan Baum, whose contract with the magazine was not renewed by Remnick. The tweets, written over the course of a week, described the difficult relationship between Baum and Remnick, his editor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/dan-baum-fired-by-inew-yo_n_200457.html|title=Dan Baum, Fired By ''New Yorker'', Recounting His Story On Twitter|last=Linkins|first=Jason|date=August 5, 2009|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|access-date=April 22, 2011}}</ref>
+In May 2009, Remnick was the subject of an extended Twitter thread by former ''New Yorker'' staff writer Dan Baum, whose contract with the magazine was not renewed by Remnick. The tweets, written over the course of a week, described the difficult relationship between Baum and Remnick, his editor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/dan-baum-fired-by-inew-yo_n_200457.html|title=Dan Baum, Fired By ''New Yorker'', Recounting His Story On Twitter|last=Linkins|first=Jason|date=August 5, 2009|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|access-date=April 22, 2011}}</ref>
 Remnick's biography of President [[Barack Obama]], ''[[The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama]]'', was released on April 6, 2010. It features hundreds of interviews with friends, colleagues, and other witnesses to Obama's rise to the presidency of the United States.
-In 2010, Remnick lent his support to the campaign urging the release of [[Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani]], the [[Iran]]ian woman sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery and ordering the murder of her husband by her lover.<ref>{{cite news |author=Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/22/iran-stoning-woman-campaigners |title=Iran stoning case woman ordered to name campaigners |location=London |work=The Guardian |date=July 22, 2010}}</ref>
+In 2010, Remnick lent his support to the campaign urging the release of [[Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani]], the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery and ordering the murder of her husband by her lover.<ref>{{cite news |author=Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/22/iran-stoning-woman-campaigners |title=Iran stoning case woman ordered to name campaigners |location=London |work=The Guardian |date=July 22, 2010}}</ref>
-Remnick provided guest commentary and contributed to [[NBC]] coverage of the [[2014 Winter Olympics]] in [[Sochi]] [[Russia]], including the opening ceremony and commentary for [[NBC News]].{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
+Remnick provided guest commentary and contributed to [[NBC]] coverage of the [[2014 Winter Olympics]] in [[Sochi]] Russia, including the opening ceremony and commentary for [[NBC News]].{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
 Remnick is also the host of ''[[The New Yorker Radio Hour]]'', produced by [[WNYC]] and ''[[The New Yorker]]''.
-In May 2014, Remnick served as the commencement speaker at the 160<sup>th</sup> commencement of [[Syracuse University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2014/05/11/commencement-speech-by-new-yorker-editor-david-remnick-52411/|title=Commencement Speech by New Yorker Editor David Remnick|website=SU News|language=en-US|access-date=May 14, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.syracuse.com/opinion/2014/05/david_remnick_syracuse_commencement_speech_opinion.html|title=David Remnick at SU: If commencement isn't the right forum for a socially charged speech, what is?|last=Baker|first=Chris|date=May 12, 2014|website=syracuse.com|language=en-US|access-date=May 14, 2019}}</ref>
+In May 2014, Remnick served as the commencement speaker at the 160th commencement of [[Syracuse University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2014/05/11/commencement-speech-by-new-yorker-editor-david-remnick-52411/|title=Commencement Speech by New Yorker Editor David Remnick|website=SU News|date=May 11, 2014|language=en-US|access-date=May 14, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.syracuse.com/opinion/2014/05/david_remnick_syracuse_commencement_speech_opinion.html|title=David Remnick at SU: If commencement isn't the right forum for a socially charged speech, what is?|
+last=Baker|first=Chris|date=May 12, 2014|website=syracuse.com|language=en-US|access-date=May 14, 2019 }}</ref>
 ==Personal life==
-In 1987, Remnick married reporter Esther Fein in a [[Judaism|Jewish]] ceremony at the [[Lincoln Square Synagogue]] in Manhattan.<ref name=NYTWedFein>{{Cite web|title=Esther B. Fein Is Wed To David Jay Remnick |work=The New York Times|date=October 26, 1987 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/26/style/esther-b-fein-is-wed-to-david-jay-remnick.html }}</ref> Fein has worked as a reporter for ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref name=NYTWedFein /> The couple has three children, Alex, Noah, and Natasha.<ref name="wood"/> Remnick is fluent in Russian.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/books/review/14hamill.html|title=A Ringside Seat|last=Hamill|first=Pete|date=May 14, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 22, 2011}}</ref>
+In 1987, Remnick married reporter Esther Fein in a Jewish ceremony at the [[Lincoln Square Synagogue]] in Manhattan.<ref name=NYTWedFein>{{Cite web|title=Esther B. Fein Is Wed To David Jay Remnick |work=The New York Times|date=October 26, 1987 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/26/style/esther-b-fein-is-wed-to-david-jay-remnick.html }}</ref> Fein has worked as a reporter for ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref name=NYTWedFein /> The couple has three children, Alex, Noah, and Natasha.<ref name="wood"/> Remnick is fluent in Russian.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/books/review/14hamill.html|title=A Ringside Seat|last=Hamill|first=Pete|date=May 14, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 22, 2011}}</ref>
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 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060524074526/http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/fellows/remnick.html#interviews Interview list]
-* {{C-SPAN|David Remnick}}
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 * [http://www.newstatesman.com/magazines/2010/06/obama-interview-yorker-editor Interview in British magazine ''New Statesman'']
 * [http://bigthink.com/videos/big-think-interview-with-david-remnick "Big Think Interview with David Remnick"]. Transcript and audio-video recording (36:23) with [http://bigthink.com/davidremnick index]. Big Think. Retrieved November 2, 2013. <!--we now cite YouTube for material not readily found in the transcript-->
 * [http://www.jotdown.es/2013/08/david-remnick-lets-not-to-be-romantic-about-the-uniformed-brilliant-quality-of-all-journalism-in-the-pre-internet-age-there-was-a-lot-of-crap/ Interview in Spanish magazine ''Jot down''], August 2013
 * [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/mar/04/the-new-yorkers-david-remnick-on-the-dangers-of-normalizing-donald-trump-video/ ''Covering Trump: what happens when journalism, politics, and fake news collide''], a discussion during a live chat at the Columbia Journalism Review with the Guardian and Reuters discussing the dangers of normalizing a Donald Trump presidency, March 2017
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v t e Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
1962–1975	The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White (1962) The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1963) Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (1964) O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (1965) Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (1966) The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (1967) Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, by Will and Ariel Durant (1968) So Human an Animal by René Dubos / The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (1969) Gandhi's Truth by Erik Erikson (1970) The Rising Sun by John Toland (1971) Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 by Barbara W. Tuchman (1972) Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald / Children of Crisis vols. 2 and 3 by Robert Coles (1973) The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (1974) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1975)
1976–2000	Why Survive? by Robert N. Butler (1976) Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (1977) The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (1978) On Human Nature by E. O. Wilson (1979) Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (1980) Fin-de-siècle Vienna by Carl Emil Schorske (1981) The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1982) Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan (1983) The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr (1984) The Good War by Studs Terkel (1985) Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas / Move Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld (1986) Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler (1987) The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1988) A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1989) And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (1990) The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson (1991) The Prize by Daniel Yergin (1992) Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills (1993) Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick (1994) The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (1995) The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg (1996) Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger (1997) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (1998) Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (1999) Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower (2000)
2001–2025	Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (2001) Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter (2002) "A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power (2003) Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2004) Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (2005) Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins (2006) The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (2007) The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedländer (2008) Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon (2009) The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman (2010) The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011) The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt (2012) Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King (2013) Toms River by Dan Fagin (2014) The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (2015) Black Flags by Joby Warrick (2016) Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2017) Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. (2018) Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold (2019) The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin / The Undying by Anne Boyer (2020) Wilmington's Lie by David Zucchino (2021) Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott (2022) His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (2023) A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall (2024)

v t e Livingston Award winners for International Reporting
(1982–1989)	Steven Erlanger (1982) Thomas Friedman (1983) Rick Atkinson (1984) Larry Tye (1985) Blaine Harden (1986) Barbara Fischkin (1987) Ira Glass (1988; co-winner) Alexis Muellner (1988; co-winner) Jonathan Schwartz (1988; co-winner) Anne Nelson (1989)
(1990–1999)	Peter Gumbel (1990) David Remnick (1991) Steve Coll (1992) Christiane Amanpour (1993) Pamela Burdman (1994) Mitchell Zuckoff (1995) David S. Rohde (1996) C. J. Chivers (1997) Alan Zarembo (1998) Elizabeth Rubin (1999)
(2000–2009)	Kevin Heldman (2000) Michael Finkel (2001) Sumana Chatterjee (2002 co-winner) Sudarsan Raghavan (2002 co-winner) Philip P. Pan (2003) T. Christian Miller (2004) Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (2005) Edward Wong (2006) Evan Osnos (2007) Christof Putzel (2008) Lydia Polgreen (2009)
(2010–2019)	Abbie Boudreau (2010) Matt Katz (2011) Mattathias Schwartz (2012) Edythe McNamee (2013 co-winner) John D. Sutter (2013 co-winner) Luke Mogelson (2014) Matthieu Aikins (2015) Adrian Chen (2016) Ben Taub (2017) Christina Goldbaum (2018) Davey Alba (2019)
(2020–2024)	Brett Murphy (2020) Chao Deng (2021) Erika Lantz (2022 co-winner) Elin Lantz Lesser (2022 co-winner) Vasilisa Stepanenko (2023) Renata Brito (2024)

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