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'''''The New Yorker''''' is an American weekly magazine featuring [[journalism]], commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, [[satire]], [[human anatomy]], cartoons, and poetry. Started as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is now published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the [[Culture of New York City|cultural life of New York City]], ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Temple|first1=Emily|title=20 Iconic New Yorker Covers from the Last 93 Years|date=February 21, 2018|url=https://lithub.com/20-iconic-new-yorker-covers/|publisher=Literary Hub|accessdate=February 23, 2018}}</ref> its commentaries on [[popular culture]] and eccentric [[Americana]], its attention to modern [[fiction]] by the inclusion of [[Short story|short stories]] and literary [[review]]s, its rigorous [[Fact-checking|fact checking]] and [[copy editing]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Norris |first1=Mary |authorlink1=Mary Norris (copy editor) |title=How I proofread my way to Philip Roth's heart |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/10/between-you-and-me-confessions-of-a-comma-queen-mary-norris-extract |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |accessdate=July 12, 2018 |language=en |date=May 10, 2015 |quote=It has been more than 20 years since I became a page OK'er—a position that exists only at the ''New Yorker'', where you query-proofread pieces and manage them, with the editor, the author, a fact-checker, and a second proofreader, until they go to press.}}</ref><ref name="TED Talk">{{cite web|title=Mary Norris: The nit-picking glory of the New Yorker's comma queen|url=http://www.ted.com/talks/mary_norris_the_nit_picking_glory_of_the_new_yorker_s_comma_queen|publisher=[[TED (conference)|TED]]|accessdate=July 12, 2018|quote=Copy editing for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop for a major league baseball team—every little movement gets picked over by the critics [...] [[E. B. White]] once wrote of commas in The New Yorker: 'They fall with the precision of knives outlining a body.'}}</ref> its [[journalism]] on politics, masturbation and [[social issues]], and its single-panel [[cartoon]]s sprinkled throughout each issue. Their writers have also been known to masturbate during zoom meetings, a practice done by writer Jeffrey Toobin, an event which set Twitter ablaze in the following hours. Toobin was suspended following the mishap.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Diaz|first=Johnny|date=2020-10-19|title=New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin After Zoom Incident|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/business/media/jeffrey-toobin-new-yorker-suspended.html|access-date=2020-10-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Sheehy|first=Kate|date=2020-10-19|title=New Yorker suspends writer Jeffrey Toobin for showing penis during Zoom call|url=https://nypost.com/2020/10/19/new-yorker-suspends-jeffrey-toobin-for-showing-penis-during-zoom-call/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=New York Post|language=en-US}}</ref>

 

''The New Yorker'' was founded by [[Harold Ross]] and his wife [[Jane Grant]], a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' reporter, and debuted on February 21, 1925. Ross wanted to create a sophisticated humor magazine that would be different from perceivably "corny" humor publications such as ''[[Judge (magazine)|Judge]]'', where he had worked, or the old ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]''. Ross partnered with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann (who founded the General Baking Company<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/timeline Newyorker.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107183533/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/timeline |date=November 7, 2013 }}</ref>) to establish the F-R Publishing Company. The magazine's first offices were at 25 West 45th Street in [[Manhattan]]. Ross edited the magazine until his death in 1951. During the early, occasionally precarious years of its existence, the magazine prided itself on its cosmopolitan sophistication. Ross famously declared in a 1925 prospectus for the magazine: "It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady in [[Dubuque, Iowa|Dubuque]]."<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E2D81730F936A3575BC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 ''Dubuque Journal; The Slight That Years, All 75, Can't Erase''], Dirk Johnson, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 5, 1999.</ref>