New York Times Announces Salary Cuts

The New York Times Company chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr and CEO Janet Robinson announced today that they are cutting the salaries of New York Times editors, as well as all employees on the corporate side by 5 percent through the end of December. Mr. Sulzberger, along with Times executive editor Bill Keller, is also asking Read More

Times Columnist William Kristol is ‘Not Such a Fan of the Mainstream Media’; Says of Sarah Palin ‘I Barely Know Her’

Earlier today, William Kristol was sitting alone by the entrance of Michael’s checking his Blackberry. Mr. Kristol was there at the behest of the Independent Film Channel to participate in a panel discussion moderated by Arianna Huffington (and featuring Pete Hamill, Chrisopher Buckley, and Mr. Kristol) to help promote The IFC Media Project, Read More

Obama Camp Giddy, Hillaryland Reserved

Hillary Clinton began one of her last appeals to Iowa voters by lifting Barack Obama’s signature line.

“We are fired up and we are ready to go,” she said in the Starlight Building of Davenport’s Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds. Later in her speech, she talked about “hopeful, hopeful programs for the future.”

Whether the imitation was Read More

Times Columnists Dance on TimesSelect Grave

“If you mention the words ‘subscription’ and ‘Internet,’” said Andrew Rosenthal, “the bloggers come after you with pitchforks!”

Mr. Rosenthal, the New York Times editorial page editor, of course won’t have to deal with pitchfork-wielding bloggers, now that TimesSelect, the newspaper’s paid subscription service—complete with a op-ed columnist-shielding pay wall—has officially been killed off.

Nor Read More

Times’ Rosenthal Is Glutton For Opinion

We’d just like to have more and more and more,” said Andrew Rosenthal, the New York Times editorial-page editor.

Mr. Rosenthal was discussing the newspaper’s opinion content on the Web—whether from name-brand op-ed columnists or outside contributors, blogs or video.

“We’ve got composers, astronomers—the guy from Queen,” Mr. Rosenthal said by phone April 9. He Read More

NYT: Andrew Rosen-Something Moves Up the Masthead

The New York Times announced this afternoon that deputy editorial-page editor Andrew Rosenthal will replace Gail Collins as editorial-page editor January 1. The annoucement quotes publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. calling Rosenthal “a born editorial writer.”

And how! The release describes Rosenthal’s journalistic background, including stints as a Washington correspondent, Denver bureau reporter and Read More