
Dogged Times Op-Ed Columnist Gail Collins Will Not Let 'Crate Gate' Drop
“You’re the third person to contact me about this this week!” Gail Collins said through laughter when we reached her at her desk at The New York Times. Read More

“You’re the third person to contact me about this this week!” Gail Collins said through laughter when we reached her at her desk at The New York Times. Read More

That’s what Times op-ed editor Andy Rosenthal told a Columbia j-school class last night, Radaronline.com’s Ben Chapman reports.
The U2 frontman will write between "six and ten" columns next year, and he’s doing it … pro bono.
Other Rosenthal dish from last night:

Earlier this morning we mentioned that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman had won the Nobel prize in economics.
Here’s how Andy Rosethnal, editorial page editor of The Times announced the news to his staff:
To the staff:
Observer alumnus Gabe Sherman has a piece in The New Republic today that pins Arthur Sulzberger Jr. to Bill Kristol’s hiring and how lots of current and former Times staffers aren’t happy about it.
Mr. Sherman reports that Mr. Sulzberger and Andy Rosenthal went through lots of candidates–including Charles Krauthammer, The Atlantic‘s Read More

At Talking Points Memo today, Greg Sargent concedes that the whole Dowd-dateline dust-up "isn’t the hugest deal in the world" and doesn’t suggest any rules were broken, but asks, "If datelines are an ‘anachronism’ and an ‘affectation,’ why bother having them at all?"
He continues:
Now, if Rosenthal doesn’t mind Read More

Some media observers are in a tizzy over a recent Maureen Dowd column published with a “Derry, N.H.” dateline even though she filed it from Jerusalem. Also that some of the quotes used in the column were collected by her assistant, without a reporting credit.