The New York Times announced today that Pamela Paul will become the new editor of The New York Times Book Review. Ms. Paul will take the reins from current editor Sam Tannenhuas, who will become a writer at large.

“It’s now Pamela’s turn to take the Book Review in new directions,” the hiring announcement said. “Her versatility as an editor and writer has strengthened the Book Review and many other sections, including the Magazine, Education Life and Sunday Styles, where she originated the biweekly ‘Studied’ column.”

Ms. Paul has written the weekly “By the Book” Q&A feature and, as the announcement notes, has also written for The Atlantic, Time, Vogue and The Economist, as well as three books. Ms. Paul started at the book review in 2011 as the children’s book editor and was most recently the features editor.

“We are both thankful to Sam and excited to inaugurate the Pamela Paul era of the Book Review,” said the memo. Read More

The New York Times operates on its own terms. When it came out last year with that wondrous piece of multimedia journalism, “Snow Fall,” you had to take a step back and wonder: What else is planned? (“Seriously,” New York magazine book critic Kathryn Schulz tweeted at the time, “that NYT experiment is like: how to satisfy Read More

On Friday, The New York Times Green blog, devoted to energy and environmental issues, said goodbye to its readers. The blog’s abrupt close came shortly after the Times shut down its environment desk in January.

Over at Columbia Journalism Review, Curtis Brainard harshly lamented the loss of the blog. The close, he wrote, “ensures the deterioration of the Times’s Read More

New New York Times CEO Mark Thompson hasn’t had the smoothest transition into his new job. The BBC Newsnight scandal followed Mr. Thompson across the Atlantic, raising questions both inside and outside the Times newsroom.

As we previously reported, Mr. Thompson planned to address the questions in town hall meetings on December 17th and 18th.

But Mr. Thompson is pushing the meetings back to 2013, he announced today in a memo that went out to Times staffers. Read More