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Founded in 1925 and owned by Condé Nast, The New Yorker is the most prestigious long-form magazine in the country. Its fact-checking department is legendary and frequently cited as the industry standard.
Admirers note that its reporting is checked more rigorously than almost anything else published in America, and that its investigative work has moved national events. Critics argue that rigor about facts is not the same as balance in judgment, and that its selection of subjects reflects a settled worldview its readers already hold.