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===''The New Yorker''=== Remnick became a staff writer at ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in September 1992, after ten years at ''The Washington Post''.<ref name="NYSWI" /> Remnick's 1997 ''New Yorker'' article "Kid Dynamite Blows Up", about boxer [[Mike Tyson]], was nominated for a [[National Magazine Awards|National Magazine Award]].<ref name="NYSWI" /> In July 1998, he became editor, succeeding [[Tina Brown]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harper |first=Jennifer |date=July 13, 1998 |title=New Yorker Magazine Names New Editor |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20900047.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010075840/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20900047.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 10, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Times |agency=Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News |access-date=December 22, 2016|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref> Remnick promoted [[Hendrik Hertzberg]], a former [[Jimmy Carter]] speechwriter and former editor of ''[[The New Republic]]'', to write the lead pieces in "Talk of the Town", the magazine's opening section. In 2005, Remnick earned $1 million for his work as the magazine's editor.<ref>[http://nymag.com/guides/salary/14497/index3.html "Salary Guide: Who Makes How Much"], ''New York'' magazine (2005).</ref> In 2003, Remnick penned an editorial in ''The New Yorker'' in the lead-up to the Iraq War saying "the United States has been wrong, politically and morally, about Iraq more than once in the past... but... a return to a hollow pursuit of containment will be the most dangerous option of all."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/02/03/making-a-case|title=Making a Case|last=Remnick|first=David|date=February 3, 2003|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=January 16, 2011}}</ref> In the months leading up to the war, the magazine also published several articles connecting Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida, often relying on unnamed sources, or simply the claims of Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld]], as evidence. The magazine received some criticism for their journalism during this period.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lazare |first=Daniel |date=May 15, 2003 |title=The New Yorker goes to war |work=The Nation |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/new-yorker-goes-war/ |access-date=Mar 17, 2023}}</ref> The claims that Hussein and al-Qaida had a close operational relationship were false, as confirmed by numerous sources including a U.S military study in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/13/iraq.usa|title=Saddam Hussein had no direct ties to al-Qaida, says Pentagon study|work=The Guardian|first=Elena|last=Schor|date=March 13, 2008|access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref> In 2004, for the first time in its 80-year history, ''The New Yorker'' endorsed a presidential candidate, [[John Kerry]].<ref name="endorse">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?041101ta_talk_editors|title=''New Yorker'' magazine endorsement of John Kerry|magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=May 9, 2006}}</ref> In May 2009, Remnick was the subject of an extended Twitter thread by former ''New Yorker'' staff writer Dan Baum, whose contract with the magazine was not renewed by Remnick. The tweets, written over the course of a week, described the difficult relationship between Baum and Remnick, his editor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/dan-baum-fired-by-inew-yo_n_200457.html|title=Dan Baum, Fired By ''New Yorker'', Recounting His Story On Twitter|last=Linkins|first=Jason|date=August 5, 2009|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|access-date=April 22, 2011}}</ref> Remnick's biography of President [[Barack Obama]], ''[[The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama]]'', was released on April 6, 2010. It features hundreds of interviews with friends, colleagues, and other witnesses to Obama's rise to the presidency of the United States. In 2010, Remnick lent his support to the campaign urging the release of [[Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani]], the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery and ordering the murder of her husband by her lover.<ref>{{cite news |author=Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/22/iran-stoning-woman-campaigners |title=Iran stoning case woman ordered to name campaigners |location=London |work=The Guardian |date=July 22, 2010}}</ref> Remnick provided guest commentary and contributed to [[NBC]] coverage of the [[2014 Winter Olympics]] in [[Sochi]], Russia, including the opening ceremony and commentary for [[NBC News]].{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} Remnick is also the host of ''[[The New Yorker Radio Hour]]'', produced by [[WNYC]] and ''[[The New Yorker]]''. In May 2014, Remnick served as the commencement speaker at the 160th commencement of [[Syracuse University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2014/05/11/commencement-speech-by-new-yorker-editor-david-remnick-52411/|title=Commencement Speech by New Yorker Editor David Remnick|website=SU News|date=May 11, 2014|language=en-US|access-date=May 14, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.syracuse.com/opinion/2014/05/david_remnick_syracuse_commencement_speech_opinion.html|title=David Remnick at SU: If commencement isn't the right forum for a socially charged speech, what is?| last=Baker|first=Chris|date=May 12, 2014|website=syracuse.com|language=en-US|access-date=May 14, 2019 }}</ref>
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