. >> reporter: david remnick was a 39-year-old reporter in 1998 he was named the fifth editor of "the6 years. we will have a bunch -- >> reporter: his job is to keep the writers happy and as he sometimes reminds me productive. his job also to figure out how and how much to modernize a 100-year-old magazine that once specialized in lighthearted articles about manhattan society. the founding editor was harold ross. >> this is from the first issue of the new yorker february 21, 1925. it is not edited for the old lady in dubuque. >> yeah. >> reporter: what did he have against iowa? >> i don't know. to him, dubuque included queens, lang. >> reporter: the magazine's reach now extends far past manhattan. >> we have more readers in the state of california than the state of new york. including the old lady in dubuque. >> it's a magazine that has deep, deep reporting and prides itself on accuracy and fact-checking. >> reporter: what is a fact-checker? >> somebody who takes a story submitted by someone like you and before we publish to make sure that it is accurate, balanced, fair, and complete