India, Dec. 5 -- It's a sign of our times that it takes a documentary on a 20-something-year-old OTT platform with over 300 million subscribers worldwide to remind us of the importance of a print magazine that began exactly 100 years ago in New York and still has only 3% of its number of subscribers (its digital subscribers form around 4% of its total base).

The irony would not be lost on David Remnick, the 65-year-old editor of the magazine, whose end goal nevertheless remains razor-sharp: not numbers, but a magazine that must always be "great and humane."

At a time of great misinformation, disinformation, and a preponderance of unverified news, good investigative journalism is needed more than ever - and The New Yorker remains one of ...