Ben Yagoda (born 22 February1954 in New York City) is a professor of journalism at the University of Delaware. February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York and abbreviated NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, verifying, analyzing and presenting information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... The University of Delaware (UD OR UDel) is the largest university in the state of Delaware. ...
Born to Louis Yagoda and the former Harriet Lewis, he grew up in New Rochelle, New York and entered Yale University to study English in 1971. He became a freelance journalist for publications such as The New Leader, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, and published a number of books including About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made. Yagoda currently lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania with his wife and two daughters. New Rochelle is a city located in Westchester County in the US state of New York. ... This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ... The New Leader is a political magazine begun in 1935 and published in New York by the American Labor Conference on International Affairs. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Newsweek Logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States,Canada, Hong Kong and probably other places too. ... Rolling Stone is a music and music industry magazine. ... Swarthmore is a borough located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. ...
Some years ago local writer BenYagoda happened upon a little article in The New York Times; The New Yorker was donating its files to the New York Public Library.
Then in 1994, Yagoda recalls from his home in Swarthmore, "I went up there and started looking around." Out of the 2,500 boxes of files, a substantial part was correspondence between editors and contributors, and interoffice memos covering the fascinating minutiae of a magazine’s daily workings.
The result of Yagoda’s labors is a fascinating cultural history of a magazine that is a culture unto itself.
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