Randy Gener

JOB SEEKER
Editor + Reporter + Broadcast Journalist
New Graduate Columbia Journalism School

Publisher of a news outfit — In the Culture of One World

[New York Daily News @NYDailyNews]

👠Anna Wintour remembers colleague André Leon Talley

“Generations he inspired to work in the industry ... broke boundaries while never forgetting where he started from ... Even his stream of colorful faxes and emails were a highly anticipated event.”
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[Randy Gener @randygenermedia]

Hi @StuLieberman Tonight I found your ZO. KEY CARD to your building on the floor of West 55th Street subway station (located at 7th Avenue near Carnegie Hall). Let me know if you want it back. I will hold on to it until I hear back from you. Feel free to contact me here.

[Edmund Lee 🐿️ 🗞️ @edmundlee]

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. have been down for about 5 hours — that's about $70 million in lost revenue. $fb #facebookdown

[Randy Gener @randygenermedia]

#ColumbiaGivingDay

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

By the way, all of this information is public & anyone who wishes to can do their own research into the data. I encourage everyone to explore the @NewYorker’s diversity ratios, as well as those of other influential publications.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

All of that being said, the @NewYorker’s website has, over the past 5 years, published a comparably impressive array of diverse bylines, easily eclipsing the print mag in terms of representation and inclusivity.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

From 1990-2020, the @NewYorker mag published 0 Letters from Washington by writers of color. The print mag published 0 Political Scene pieces by Latino writers, 0 by Asian-Americans, 1 by an Indian-American, only 4% by Black writers, and 20% by women.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

And there were actually more critical reviews (overall) published by women in the magazine in the 1980s than there are now. In 1987, 54% of @NewYorker’s reviews (cinema, books,etc) were written by women; in the last 10 years, an average of 23% have been written by women...

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

In its 96-year existence, @NewYorker print mag has never published a Critic at Large by a Black or Asian female writer. From 1990-2020, the mag published only 2 CAL reviews by a Latino writer, 1% by Asian writers, 1% by Indian writers & 8% by Black writers. Only 23% by women.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

From 1990-2020, @NewYorker print mag published 0 Musical Events (classical music) reviews by women or writers of color. Only 20% of the magazine’s Pop Music reviews were written by women; 12% by Asian-Americans; and 4% by Black writers or critics.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

Devoted readers may note that there is another section of @NewYorker which covers art: Onward & Upward with the Arts. From 1990-2020, only 4% of these pieces were written by Black writers, 0.5% written by Asian-Americans, and only 17% were written by women.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

In the last 30 years (1990-2020), the @NewYorker mag has published 0 Art World reviews by writers or critics of color. [In 2021, the first Art World print review was published by a Black writer.] Only 1% of the print mag’s art reviews have been written by women.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

From 1990-2020, the @NewYorker print mag published 0 cinema reviews by writers or critics of color. In the last 30 years, only 2.5% of the magazine’s cinema reviews have been written by women—including 10 reviews by Pauline Kael in ‘90 & ‘91.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

From 1990-2020, only 1.6% of @NewYorker’s Reporter at Large pieces were written by Black writers. Only 2 were written by Latino writers; 3 by Asian-Americans; 1 by a Black female writer; and 1% by Indian-Americans. Only 25% have been written by women.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

And there were actually more Profiles written by women in the first decade of @NewYorker’s existence (1925-1935) than there were published by women from 1990-2000. From 1925-1935, 26 women wrote 64 Profiles; from 1990-2000, 18 women wrote 29 Profiles.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

From 1990-2020, @NewYorker mag published 1 Profile by a Latino writer & 4 Profiles by Black women. Only 0.7% of @NewYorker’s Profiles in the last 30 yrs are by Asian-American writers; 5% are by Black writers. Only 32% have been written by women.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

From 1990-2020, @NewYorker mag published only 7 Book reviews by Latino writers and 12 book reviews by Asian-Americans. Less than 1% of the book reviews @NewYorker has published are by Indian-Americans. Only 28% of all print book reviews are by women.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

In its 96 years of existence, the @NewYorker print mag has published only 4 book reviews by African-American women. (That’s less than 0.01%.) In the last 30 years (1990-2020), 3.6% of the book reviews @NewYorker mag has published were by Black critics or writers.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

So let’s go ahead & delve into some of the diversity stats (all public) for @NewYorker mag...

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

In the last 15 years at the @NewYorker, during the tenure of editor-in-chief David Remnick (author of a bio on Obama), less than 0.01% of print feature & critics pieces have ever been edited by a Black editor.