Mr. Newhouse did everything he could to favor the fabled weekly. Trow — and Mr. Newhouse was aggressively shy. “Si made the decision,” to hire Mr. Remnick, Mr. Bennet said, “and he deserves great credit for that.”It also turns out that the taciturn, hands-off owner was precisely the one The New Yorker most needed. When it came to The New Yorker, Mr. Newhouse didn’t buckle. “If we were owned by almost anybody you can imagine, we’d be in trouble,” Mr. Remnick said.

Source: New York Times October 02, 2017 09:00 UTC