David Remnick — editor (new yorker) with roots in the Russian Empire
David Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998, overseeing its transformation into one of the world's leading digital and print media brands. Before that, as Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.
Tracing the roots — Russia (Jewish)
Remnick's family has Russian-Jewish roots — part of the Eastern European Jewish diaspora in America. His Pulitzer Prize-winning immersion in post-Soviet Russia's collapse, and his deep interest in Russian culture and politics, reflects an ancestral connection that has shaped his entire editorial and journalistic vision.
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Russia (Jewish). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"Journalism is the first rough draft of history. Editing is the second."