Archive for the 'THE NEW YORKER' Category

GREAT COVERS: NEW YORK MAGAZINES RULE!

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) presents its annual “best covers of the year,” with this great one from The New Yorker as the winner.
If you look at the entries in all the categories, you will also find these covers from New York Magazine.
They are fantastic covers.
Always different.
Provocative.
Smart.
And, the most important fact: you [...]

NEWS ILLUSTRATORS (1): SAUL STEINBERG

Newspapers and magazines have been always excellent public art galleries for the best illustrators in the world.
This is a tradition that we have to keep alive.
Please join me in this tribute to the best of the best.
Let’s start with these two from Saul Steinberg, the first done in 1948 and the second (”View of [...]

IS WATER NEXT?

Today, EL PERIODICO has this interesting front page.
Quotes from angry readers screaming against the power failure.
A good front page.
But no one has been better than the cover of the New Yorker after a similar situation in Manhattan a few years ago:
Is Water Next?
A perfect headline for the much needed what’s-next journalism.
I am from Barcelona.
So, I [...]

THE MURDOCH-BANCROFT DEAL

Ken Auletta, media correspondent from The New Yorker, writes a long story about the Murdoch bid for Dow Jones.
Read it and you will see how the deal is almost done.
Money, money, money.
Don’t be confused.
The Bancrofts don’t care about quality journalism.
They never re-invested their profits.
They were there just for the easy and big dividends.
While Dow [...]

LOST CALLS …

Thanks to Balazos, I found this great comment by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker.
Just as few paragraphs of this masterpiece:
“The cell phones in the pockets of the dea students were still ringing when we were tol that it was wrong to ask why.
As the polic cleared the bodies from the [...]


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