Even though the election and economic crisis have pushed the Iraq war off the front—or even the first dozen—pages of newspapers, the December 2008 issue of Vanity Fair features an article by Seth Mnookin in which he reports on life inside The New York Times‘ Baghdad bureau. The story is not yet online, but Read More
Right-wing ruckmaker Bernard Goldberg has a new enemies list, and the New York Times is on it. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and columnist Paul Krugman are Nos. 2 and 8 respectively in Goldberg’s just-released volume 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37). Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus isn’t in Read More
The lengthy acknowledgments section of Seth Mnookin’s book Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media (Random House) opens with a paragraph devoted to one Hanya Yanagihara-”a passionate, dedicated, and enormously skilled editor for this book” who apparently “put up with too frequent midnight phone calls” from the Read More
Last spring, Seth Mnookin landed himself the kind of book deal every journalist who’s honest would admit to coveting: a healthy six-figure deal with Random House for a book about the debacle at The New York Times . A longtime media reporter who had covered The Times at Inside.com and Brill’s Content , Mr. Mnookin, Read More
