David Remnick, editor-in-chief of The New Yorker and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author, will visit campus on Tuesday, Oct. 14, as a guest of the Newhouse School. He
will speak at 3 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3. The event is
open to the campus community.
Remnick joined the New Yorker in 1992 and became editor in 1998. He was
previously a reporter for 10 years with The Washington Post.
An award-winning editor and journalist, he has won 23 national magazine awards in
the last 16 years. He also received the 2006 Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year
Award from the National Press Foundation; was named editor of the year by
Advertising Age in 2000; received the George Polk Awards' Excellence in Journalism
award in 1994; and won the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Lenin's Tomb: The Last
Days of the Soviet Empire" (Vintage, 1994).
He has been a Council on Foreign Relations Visiting Fellow and taught at Columbia
and Princeton universities. He has written more than 100 pieces for The New Yorker.
While on campus, Remnick will dedicate the Glavin Magazine Lab (MagLab) in
Newhouse 1. Named in honor of Newhouse magazine professor Bill Glavin and
funded by Stacey Mindich, a Newhouse alumna and former student of Glavin's, the
MagLab will provide a physical and psychological home for students in the
magazine program. The lab will serve as the main classroom for magazine writing
and editing classes. On the off hours, it will become a bullpen-style work and
gathering room for students, with lockers, storage space and magazine-related
resources. It will also serve as a display space for magazine students and faculty.
For more information about his talk, contact Jean Brooks at (315) 443-5711 or
jabroo01@syr.edu.
