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David Remnick was named the New Yorker's editor. (Gasper Tringale/The New Yorker) Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick, a prolific and versatile journalist who has never held an editing job, was named editor of the New Yorker yesterday, taking the helm of the venerable weekly at a time of chronic financial trouble and fitful editorial verve. The 39-year-old Remnick, a former Washington Post reporter who won the 1994 nonfiction Pulitzer as well as that year's prestigious George Polk Award for a book about the breakup of the Soviet Union, was the surprise choice of billionaire S.
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