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The New Yorker at 100: Netflix documentary dives inside a groundbreaking magazine
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/06/the-new-yorker-at-100-netflix-documentaryThe New Yorker at 100: Netflix documentary dives inside a groundbreaking magazine
Film-maker Marshall Curry pulls back the curtain on the beloved institution in a revealing and celebratory new film
Andrew Lawrence
Sat 6 Dec 2025 04.03 EST
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Supreme self-assuredness is how the New Yorker has managed to remain an essential subscription in a contracting media landscape where paper journalism has been reduced to a niche product. While rivals chased trends in hopes that eyeballs would follow, and faded into irrelevance, the New Yorker doubled down on curiosity and honed its refined palate, collaging wry cartoons, original art and cultural observations around authoritative profiles and investigations. And readers show their loyalty every time they lose themselves in an issue on the subway, troop around town in New Yorker-branded totes or point with some embarrassment to the stack of issues they haven’t gotten all the way through yet.
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