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Manu Joseph: How ‘The New Yorker,’ a magazine of the elite, managed to survive the age of social media

Manu Joseph: How ‘The New Yorker,’ a magazine of the elite, managed to survive the age of social media

Manu Joseph: How ‘The New Yorker,’ a magazine of the elite, managed to survive the age of social media


The magazine offers glaring proof, like bestselling books, that the shortened attention span of people is a poor analysis of the crisis in media, whose real problem is that most of it is not worthy of attention. The New Yorker did not fear changing times, nor adapt too much. As a result, it is now a rare antidote, like the dense novel, to mindless scrolling.

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