Bonus: David Remnick Takes Calls on the Midterms and the Media

Hey New Yorker Radio Hour listeners, we have a bonus episode of the podcast for you. On Wednesday, David Remnick appeared on WNYC's Brian Lehrer show, and he talked with Brian about the late newspaper mogul Donald Newhouse, as well as the New York Knicks finally reaching the NBA Finals for the first time in over a quarter century, and also the Radio Hour's upcoming live event at the Tribeca Festival. David will be sitting down on June 10th with John Lovett, the former Obama speechwriter and political podcaster, to talk about the midterm elections and much more. If you want to join us for that event, go to tribecafilm.com slash audio. That's tribecahfilm.com slash audio.

Here's Brian Lair talking with our host, David Remnick. It's the Brian Lair show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. David Remnick is with us, the editor-in-chief of The New Yorker and host of the New Yorker Radio Hour, which the magazine and we here at WNYC produce together. We'll talk about this morning's midterm elections news, some media news, including CBS firing Scott Pelley after he criticized their new boss, Barry Weiss.

That broke last night. Yes, we will talk about the Knicks opening their first NBA finals in 27 years tonight and hoping for their first championship since 1973. David wrote a, I'll call it euphoric, New Yorker piece about that, and we'll preview a live taping David will be doing for the New Yorker Radio Hour. Next week as part of the Tribeca Film Festival with former Obama speechwriter and now podcast host, John Lovett. That'll be next Wednesday, June 10th at 8.15 p.m.

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