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The New Yorker has finally embraced modernity
When the first email was sent in 1971, Richard Nixon was president. The video game "Pong" was still in development. The Pittsburgh Pirates were a good
And yet, one of the most storied magazines in American history, The New Yorker, has only just updated its copyediting guidelines to incorporate more contemporary stylings of words related to the internet. No longer will The New Yorker write about “e-mails” in your “in box” that you access on “the Internet” through a “web site.” At last, the magazine — best known as that logo emblazoned on millennials’ tote bags in Brooklyn — will join us in the twenty-first century. The New Yorker’s Head of Copy, Andrew Boynton, describes a sort of clandestine rendezvous among editors that took place in January to discuss possible style changes at the magazine.
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