Meet The Media Mensches, 2009

Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.
Chairman of the New York Times Co., publisher of
The New York Times

In the middle of November 2008, at a time when the New York Times Company stock number was falling off the face of the earth, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. was in the ballroom at the Read More

Will TimesSelect Be Killed Off?

Rumors of TimesSelect's demise have been spread almost since the pay wall first went up in 2005. Maybe that was just wishful thinking on the part of those not wishing to drop almost $50 to read Tom Friedman and Maureen Dowd. 

But today, the New York Post is reporting that soon readers Read More

Times New Foreign Guidelines

Today, the New York Times unveiled it’s narrower format—as reported here.

But there’s more: Foreign correspondents are being asked to be a bit more concise, according to new guidelines obtained by The Observer.

For Page 1 stories, typically around 1,400 words, the new guidelines call for 1,250. There will Read More

The Gang’s All Here

Someone—Mark Twain, maybe—once said: “Never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel.” A modern corollary to the saying might be: “Never taunt a man who owns his own talk radio network.” But Ed Koch and Al D'Amato seem none too intimidated by the return of Mark Green, the new Read More

Times’ Judy Miller, In Contempt, Says She Won’t Budge

“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

Sulzberger Sees the Future, And It’s Not Black-and-White

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