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As part of a series of new staff hires upon assuming his new role, Lindgren first hired then–executive editor of O: The Oprah Magazine Lauren Kern to be his deputy editor and then hired then-editor of TNR.com, The New Republic magazine's website, Greg Veis, to edit the "front of the book" section of the magazine. In September 2010, as part of a greater effort to reinvigorate the magazine, Times editor Bill Keller hired former staff member and then-editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, Hugo Lindgren, as the editor of The New York Times Magazine. The Sunday Magazine also features a puzzle page, edited by Will Shortz, that features a crossword puzzle with a larger grid than those featured in the Times during the week, along with other types of puzzles on a rotating basis (including diagramless crossword puzzles and anacrostics).
"Consumed", Rob Walker's regular column on consumer culture, debuted in 2004. Klosterman left in early 2015 to be replaced by a trio of authors- Kenji Yoshino, Amy Bloom, and Jack Shafer-who used a conversational format Shafer was replaced three months later by Kwame Anthony Appiah, who assumed sole authorship of the column in September 2015. In 2011, Ariel Kaminer replaced Cohen as the author of the column, and in 2012 Chuck Klosterman replaced Kaminer. The year 1999 saw the debut of "The Ethicist", an advice column written by humorist Randy Cohen that quickly became a highly contentious part of the magazine. Safire's column steadily gained popularity and by 1990 was generating "more mail than anything else" in the magazine. In 1979, the magazine began publishing Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist William Safire's " On Language", a column discussing issues of English grammar, use and etymology. When, in 1970, The New York Times introduced its first Op-Ed page, the magazine shifted away from publishing as many editorial pieces. During his tenure, writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Gertrude Stein, and Tennessee Williams contributed pieces to the magazine. Editor Lester Markel, an "intense and autocratic" journalist who oversaw the Sunday Times from the 1920s through the 1950s, encouraged the idea of the magazine as a forum for ideas. Du Bois and Albert Einstein to numerous sitting and future U.S. In its early years, The New York Times Magazine began a tradition of publishing the writing of well-known contributors, from W. In 1897, the magazine published a 16-page spread of photographs documenting Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, a "costly feat" that resulted in a wildly popular issue and helped boost the magazine to success. The creation of a "serious" Sunday magazine was part of a massive overhaul of the newspaper instigated that year by its new owner, Adolph Ochs, who also banned fiction, comic strips and gossip columns from the paper, and is generally credited with saving The New York Times from financial ruin.
In the early decades, it was a section of the broadsheet paper and not an insert as it is today. Its first issue was published on September 6, 1896, and contained the first photographs ever printed in the newspaper.