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Channels with Peter Kafka

New York Magazine editor David Haskell on taking over after an industry legend

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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David Haskell, New York Magazine's new editor-in-chief, talks to Peter Kafka about following in the footsteps of star editor Adam Moss. Also: New York Magazine’s digital strategy, working with Amazon and Apple, and how to solve the cover problem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:36.7

This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That's me talking to you from Vox Media headquarters in New York

1:41.7

City. My guest today is David Haskell, the brand new

1:44.5

editor-in-chief of New York Magazine. Welcome, David. Thanks. You looking at me askance. Did I get

1:48.8

something wrong? No, that's all right. Did I pronounce your name wrong? Did I get the title wrong? Got it all right. It just still feels a little weird. This is brand new. Because it's brand new. As we're speaking, you have your first new issue as the new editor-in-chief of New York

2:00.1

Magazine. Yeah, that came out on Monday. Today's Thursday, I think. Thursday-ish. Mayor Pete's on the cover? Mayor Pete's on the cover. How much pressure is there in issue number one for you? Or do you feel like you're just going to ease into this job? Well, I spent a lot of February and March telling people not to judge. Yeah. And that the real project for the first couple months was just me adjusting

2:20.3

and the whole editorial operation adjusting to saying about Adam basically

2:25.8

and finding our way in this new world.

2:28.9

Let's fill it in for listeners who don't know who Adam is.

2:31.4

Adam Moss is one of the bold-type big-deal editor-in-chiefs, formerly big-deal editor-in-chiefs left in the magazine business. There was Graydon Carter, there's Anna Winter, Adam Moss. That's kind of triumvirate. David Remnick? David Remnick. Jeffi Goldberg, but yes. Jeff is not in New York. Jeffrey Goldberg is a great person. But this is one of the people that you moved to New York to work for. Right, right. And you are filling his shoes. Yeah, that's of all of the things. That is the scariest part. It's just the filling of the shoes of Adam. And I've known him for my entire, I've worked in New York Magazine for 12 years.

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