![]() ![]() The virus was the biggest news story of our lifetimes, and it changed everything so fundamentally that the majority of our planned stories no longer made sense. That said, at points we’ve moved quickly to put out stories on important events, and we knew we would do that with the pandemic. We have a much longer lead time to get to print than the paper, so we don’t generally publish stories on breaking news. Typically, we plan our stories out weeks or months in advance. In terms of the internal pivot, it was tough. Living in New York for those first months of the lockdown and hearing the constant sirens made things very real. We knew how dire the situation had become in Italy, but New York hadn’t become a hotspot yet, so we hadn’t had many firsthand experiences with the virus. We started working remotely the second week in March, and were preparing for what we thought was a few weeks of working from home, or at most a couple months. It’s hard to say exactly when the severity of the pandemic became clear at the magazine because our understanding of it kept shifting as we got more information. When did the severity of the pandemic begin to make itself clear at the magazine-and what sort of internal pivot was required to adequately meet the moment? How hard was the design pivot? Here, New York Times Magazine Creative Director Gail Bichler riffs on just that-and provides a full chronological survey of the past year of pandemic covers and beyond. So in the span of such a year, how do you fit all the news that’s fit to print onto the covers of one of the world’s preeminent Sunday supplements known for said covers rising to the caliber of the longform journalism contained therein? A president refusing to acknowledge the results of a Democratic election. ![]() The high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans by police. Creating a timely magazine is hard enough in normal times … and then there was the year 2020. ![]()
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