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David Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is executive editor of the New Yorker‘s digital site, is moving to NBC News as senior executive editor, national security, starting next month. This is the first major hire by Rebecca Blumenstein, who joined NBC News in January as…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar season used to boil down to one main thing for Condé Nast: Vanity Fair‘s party. While the famed bash is back this year, there’s also a more consequential reason for the company to feel festive: The New Yorker‘s record five nominations across all three short film categories. Stranger a…

EXCLUSIVE: New Yorker video producer Christopher Hwisu Kim is heading to the Sundance Film Festival this week as an all-expenses paid guest of The Black List and Cassian Elwes. "It’s an immense honor to be the recipient of the Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship, especially because E.S…

Polar bears are both a welcome and an unwelcome sight in the town of Churchill, Manitoba. They're welcome in the sense that each year the ursine creatures draw tourists to the area eager to see the bears as they migrate through Churchill on their way to winter feeding grounds on the Hudson Bay. And…

EXCLUSIVE: A trailer dropped today for the award-winning short documentary Holding Moses ahead of its release November 16 on the New Yorker's digital channels. The film takes viewers on an intimate journey with Broadway dancer Randi Rader as she reveals the emotional challenges of raising her young…

EXCLUSIVE: The New Yorker has acquired Joshua Seftel's documentary short Stranger at the Gate ahead of its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film tells a remarkable story of redemption about Richard "Mac" McKinney, a former U.S. Marine who fought in Afghanistan after 9/11, where his superiors encouraged…

Roger Angell, whose vivid essays about baseball in The New Yorker saw him enshrined in a special writers wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., has died. He was 101 and died of heart failure, according to New Yorker editor David Remnick. “No one lives forever, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that…

In one of Syrian-born artist Mohamad Hafez's stunning 3D pieces, a figurine of the Virgin Mary stands before an ornate portal, her hands joined in prayer. The building around her, rendered in plaster, paint, rusted metal and found objects, is blasted to ruins. The artwork is titled "Why Have You Forsaken Us?" Hafez…

EXCLUSIVE: The new trailer for the documentary A Broken House gives a strong indication of why the film earned a spot on the coveted Oscar documentary shortlist. Jimmy Goldblum's visually stunning short, available on The New Yorker magazine's website and on YouTube, draws viewers in with the story of Syrian-born…

UPDATED Saturday (Originally published Friday): Aaron Sorkin posted an open letter Friday disputing what he calls the “distorted picture” of actor Jeremy Strong created by a recent New Yorker profile. Late Friday, the New Yorker responded with a statement to Deadline, which is below. Strong is currently receiving…

For movies, the best thing to happen last week was documentarian Morgan Neville's flip response to The New Yorker's query about his having covertly used artificial intelligence to voice some of Anthony Bourdain's lines in the film Roadrunner. "If you watch the film, other than that line you mentioned, you probably…

NewFronts mainstay Condé Nast announced 75 returning series and 50 new pilots, plus a renewed emphasis on long-form and live programming. The company delivered an online presentation for the second year in a row, but it included initiatives based on live events, an element that was missing in the Covid-affected 2020…