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David Remnick

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David Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. He has written many pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe, and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Remnick began his reporting career as a staff writer at the Washington Post in 1982, where he covered stories for the Metro, Sports, and Style sections. In 1988, he started a four-year tenure as a Washington Post Moscow correspondent, an experience that formed the basis of his 1993 book on the former Soviet Union, “Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.” In 1994, “Lenin’s Tomb” received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism.

Under Remnick’s leadership, The New Yorker has become the country’s most-honored magazine. It has won fifty-three National Magazine Awards, including multiple citations for general excellence. It has been named a finalist a hundred and ninety-two times, more than any other publication. In 2016, it became the first magazine to receive a Pulitzer Prize for its writing and now has won six, including the gold medal for public service. Remnick’s personal honors include Advertising Age’s Editor of the Year in 2000 and 2016 and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2016.

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