“On the First Amendment,” Judith Miller said, “I am a hard-liner.”
Ms. Miller—the redoubtable, doubtable New York Times scoop artist—was on the phone Monday afternoon, giving an interview on her way to get an interview. The quick-change routine is well practiced by now: from reporter to news object and back again.
But even Read More
Five years from now, The New York Times is going to be an object published on newsprint—loaded onto trucks in College Point, hauled to distribution depots and stuffed into blue plastic bags. It will smudge your hands.
On Feb. 14, New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. is scheduled to address his paper’s staff Read More
The Knicks were not looking for respect from the Denver Nuggets Dec. 17. That was what Isiah Thomas and his players said they had been after, when the brawl was done—professional courtesy, sportsmanship, proper treatment between competitors. What they’d wanted, they said, was for the Nuggets to honor the unwritten code of basketball.
What they Read More
BEIJING—I had just begun haggling for a silk comforter at the Yuexiu Market on Chaoyangmen Street when I got a phone call saying that New York Times Op-Ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman was on his way to a bookstore nearby. I wrapped up the deal, disadvantageously, and grabbed a cab.
You can learn a lot Read More
Hollywood has been trying to get a handle on Hong Kong moviemaking for more than a decade now, ever since Americans figured out our action heroes were holding their guns wrong. Instead of the old straight-up-and-down—in one hand, like a cowboy, or in the two-fisted isosceles tactical grip of Miami Vice—there was someone like Chow Read More
Before getting into what’s wrong with Malcolm Gladwell, it helps to talk about what’s been right about Malcolm Gladwell. Mr. Gladwell, the nimbus-haired New Yorker reporter specializing in the coverage of ideas, has laid down a significant number of the milestones by which the educated, New Yorker–reading citizen of the year 2006 has found his Read More
On Sept. 21, Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet turned 50 years old. When he stepped out into the newsroom that afternoon, following the daily page-one meeting, he was greeted with a birthday cake and a prolonged, loud ovation.
The crowd numbered more than a hundred. Two hundred? It sprawled uncountably out of view, around Read More
The New York Times has a rule about presenting opinions in its news columns: Henceforth, they must all conform to the left.
As of Sept. 20—this morning, if you’re reading a brand-new copy of The Observer—The Times has instituted a sweeping but subtle redesign, to emphasize the difference between objective and subjective journalism. Straight news Read More
“I think for The Sun, and for most papers our size, that the mission is to be the definitive source of state, regional and local news,” Timothy Franklin said.
Mr. Franklin has been editor of The Baltimore Sun for two and a half years. He was sitting at a conference table in his office the Read More
“I think for The Sun, and for most papers our size, that the mission is to be the definitive source of state, regional and local news,” Timothy Franklin said.
Mr. Franklin has been editor of The Baltimore Sun for two and a half years. He was sitting at a conference table in his office Read More
