New York Times standards editor Phil Corbett sent a memo to the staff earlier this week about anonymous sourcing. It was a pretty standard memo indeed. Just a few reminders really:
Remember that under our rules, at least one editor must know the identity of an anonymous source. (As standards editor, I Read More
Former New York Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt has landed a job at Bloomberg’s Washington bureau.
The bureau has been expanding rapidly in the last year and now has more than 140 staffers (three times as many as The Times has in D.C.), Michael Calderone wrote last year. Mr. Hoyt will help mold the Read More
“Well, you’re here. You must be dumber than you look.” New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt remembered hearing these words from publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. on his first day.
In his last column over the weekend, Mr. Hoyt also remembered one highlight from his interactions with Bill Keller.
Bill Keller, the executive editor, Read More
Last weekend New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt gave his column over to Jill Abramson to talk about blogs. This weekend he will say goodbye.
It’s been a wild ride for Mr. Hoyt!
“I don’t have any regrets about it. It has been fascinating and endlessly interesting,” Mr. Hoyt told Media Matters Read More
Felix Gillette talks to Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria, whose CNN show GPS, "unlike most Sunday public affairs programs such as Meet the Press and This Week, GPS set out to lure political leaders and thinkers onto the show from outside the Beltway and outside America."
John Koblin reports that New York Times publisher Read More
Over the past two weeks, the Times public editor Clark Hoyt has taken the Times newsroom to task about a breaking news story in late January that detailed how and why Caroline Kennedy decided to drop out of her pursuit of Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat.
Mr. Hoyt’s central objection had to do with the Read More
In his column today, The New York Times Op-Ed columnist offers a corrective to his 2002 columns implying that Dr. Steven J. Hatfill (whom Mr. Kristof sometimes referred to as "Mr. Z" in his columns) was connected to the still-unsolved anthrax attacks media and government figures following the 9/11. Read More
Not just anyone can get ‘nuts’ into the pages of The New York Times. While reporters covering Jesse Jackson’s open mic gaffe had to dance around his phrase "I wanna cut his nuts off," Public Editor Clark Hoyt got a special pass to quote him in full in a column about crude speech Read More
On June 22, the Times public editor Clark Hoyt had a few words for the Times’ Maureen Dowd for several primary-season columns that disparaged Hillary Clinton. "Even [Ms. Dowd], I think, by assailing Clinton in gender-heavy terms in column after column, went over the top this election season."
So two days ago, current Op-Ed Read More
Public Editor Clark Hoyt wrote his column this weekend about the Times Bestseller List. What does it do and how does it work, he wanted to know; also, why was Elie Wiesel’s Night retired from the list last month despite the fact that it was still selling well enough to chart at number Read More
