David Remnick - Photo credit Brigitte Lacombe
The National Institute of Social Sciences is delighted to announce David Remnick, journalist, author, and Editor of The New Yorker, as one of the 2024 Honorees for its Gold Honor Medal for distinguished service to society and humanity.
The National Institute will celebrate Mr. Remnick and the other Honorees at the 110th Annual Gold Medal Gala, which will be held in person in New York City on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. We hope you will be able to join us to honor Mr. Remnick and our other extraordinary Honorees and their accomplishments.
David Remnick was named the editor of The New Yorker in 1998. He joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1992, after ten years with the Washington Post, where he was a Moscow correspondent. He is the author of seven books, including “King of the World,” “Resurrection,” and “Lenin’s Tomb,” for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. Remnick’s most recent book, “Holding the Note,” is a collection of his profiles of musicians.
Remnick has written hundreds of pieces for the magazine and, in 2015, became the début host of “The New Yorker Radio Hour,” a national radio program and podcast. During his tenure, The New Yorker has won more than fifty National Magazine Awards, including multiple citations for general excellence. In 2016, it became the first magazine to receive a Pulitzer Prize for its writing, and now has won eight Pulitzers, including the gold medal for public service. Remnick was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2016.
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One of the nation’s oldest honorary societies, the National Institute of Social Sciences has presented Gold Medals each year to men and women whose lives have manifested the highest achievements and who have made significant contributions to society and to humanity. This year’s Honorees joined a distinguished, diverse pantheon of Honorees that stretches back to 1913.
Recent Gold Medal Honorees include Jonathan F. Fanton, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, and James H. and Marilyn H. Simons (2023); Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, Jennifer J. Raab, and Neil deGrasse Tyson (2022); Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Amartya Sen (2021); Max Stier, Darren Walker, and Judy Woodruff (2020); Paul Edward Farmer and Peter Gelb (2019); Daniel Kahneman, Geraldine Kunstadter, and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (2018); Ron Chernow, Robert Shiller, and Michael Sovern (2017); Pauline Newman, Richard L. Ottinger, and Robert Putnam, (2016); and John Bogle, Paul Krugman, and Michelle Kwan (2015).
Previous Gold Medal Honorees, 1913-2023
About the National Institute of Social Sciences
Established in 1912, the National Institute of Social Sciences is a voluntary association of public-spirited citizens who explore issues of urgent and lasting concern. One of the nation’s oldest honorary societies, the National Institute sponsors speeches, discussions, and events that encourage balanced, non-partisan debate and discussion; celebrates distinguished Americans and world leaders who have contributed at the highest level to the welfare and improvement of society; and provides financial support to emerging scholars who are conducting research in the social sciences.