Nothing to It: How John Bennet went from East Texas kid to New Yorker editor
The Kicker14 Okt 2022

Nothing to It: How John Bennet went from East Texas kid to New Yorker editor

In 1975, at the age of twenty-nine, John Bennet got a job at The New Yorker, under the editorship of William Shawn. He was first placed on the copy desk. Eventually, he edited Pauline Kael, Seymour Hersh, John McPhee, Alma Guillermoprieto, Oliver Sacks, Robert Caro, Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill Finnegan, and many others. In 2001, he started teaching courses in magazine writing at Columbia Journalism School. He became, over decades, a mentor to generations of authors, editors, and students—recipien...

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FT's Rana Foroohar: What the Davos Crowd Doesn't See

FT's Rana Foroohar: What the Davos Crowd Doesn't See

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Jon Allsop Returns. Plus, What We’re Watching in 2023

Jon Allsop Returns. Plus, What We’re Watching in 2023

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Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter has inspired news headlines once unimaginable (see New York Magazine's "Elon Musk is Selling Off Twitter’s Cafeteria and Furniture"). It has also created serious probl...

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The Guardian’s David Smith: Covering a new chapter of Trump

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Ross Barkan’s Notes on Election Coverage: Form, Function, and the Future

On today’s Kicker, what the media got right and wrong in the 2022 midterm election. Ross Barkan, a politics reporter for New York magazine, The Nation and more talks with CJR’s editor and publisher Ky...

11 Nov 202229min

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Bill Keller: On covering the ‘freedom’ beat – prisons and Russia

Reporting from Moscow in the final years of the Cold War, Bill Keller witnessed the Soviet Union “fall apart like Humpty Dumpty.” On this week’s Kicker, Keller says Vladimir Putin is trying to put Hum...

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