New York is a weekly magazine and daily website that primarily cover the culture and politics of New York City.
Founded in 1968 by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser as a competitor to The New Yorker, and known for its witty and often irreverent writing style, the magazine quickly established itself as a cradle of the New Journalism movement. Its roots were in the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune, begun in 1963; the magazine survived the newspaper’s closing in 1966. In 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought the magazine in a hostile takeover, forcing out Felker and Glaser. He owned the title until 1991. In 2003, the investment banker Bruce Wasserstein bought the magazine for $55 million.
In 2004, Wasserstein brought on Adam Moss, then editor of The New York Times Magazine, to become New York’s editor-in-chief. Under Moss’ leadership, the print magazine launched a quick, and major, overhaul dedicated in large part to enhancing the magazine’s cultural coverage. The move revitalized the magazine, leading to an improvement in both its quality and relevance. “He gets credit for making it significantly better, very quickly,” Kurt Andersen, co-founder of Spy magazine — and, briefly, New York’s editor himself — said of Moss after the redesign.
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