By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 10/01/12 8:53am

Inside the Times

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Clyde Haberman on Writing an Obituary of the Boss

The New York Times announced that Arthur Ochs Sulzberger died on Saturday morning with a 7,741-word obituary by veteran Times writer Clyde Haberman. In an email to Poynter over the weekend, Mr. Haberman described the writing process.

Mr. Haberman began working on the obit in 1997 — the same year “Punch” Sulzberger stepped down as Chairman of the Times Company (he had retired from his role as Publisher in 1992).

“It is never simple to write about the boss,” Mr. Haberman told Poynter. “But Mr. Sulzberger made the assignment as easy as could be.” Read More

By Michael Calderone 9/19/07 4:42pm

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.

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By Staff 9/12/06 8:56am

The Morning Read: September 12, 2006

Hidden behind the NYT Select barricade is a Clyde Haberman’s column on 9/11 political etiquette.

“It is fine to trade stocks, and play baseball, and broadcast soap operas and even write a newspaper column. But absolutely forbidden is the normal functioning of our democracy. And they say the terrorists haven’t won.”

Haberman also Read More