By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 10/18/12 12:04pm

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Times Public Editor Praises Times Writer

The final installment in Dan Barry’s five-part, 14,000 word series about a diner in a small Ohio city ran in today’s paper, and public editor Margaret Sullivan used today’s column to commend Mr. Barry on a job well done.

Last year, Times executive editor Jill Abramson encouraged all staff members to go find real Americans and tell their stories, according to Ms. Sullivan. And boy, did Mr. Barry ever!

The good people of Elyria, Ohio, gather over coffee at Donna’s Diner to talk about their struggles to make ends meet. They arrange classic car shows against all odds. They have hopes and dreams and hard times. They are Americans. Read More

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 10/16/12 12:23pm

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Donna of Donna’s Diner ‘On Cloud Nine’ to Be in The New York Times

Today is day three of Dan Barry’s five part New York Times series about Donna’s Diner in Elyria, Ohio. In the small, economically ravaged city, Mr. Barry has found a charming little diner full of charming characters who gather together to drink coffee and talk about politics, their lives, the economy and the ordinary struggles of ordinary Americans.  Read More

By Staff 5/18/06 1:45pm

The Times’ 9/11 Laptop Story

Dan Barry’s story in the Times today about writings by a victim of 9/11 that her North Dakota family only discovered in the last two months, having put off looking in her laptop as long as they could, was a sad and moving piece, the kind readers gravitate to before they have to swallow Read More

By Staff 5/15/06 4:23pm

I Retract Another Cheap Shot

Oy. Did I really write that The Times’ Dan Barry was blaming David Blaine for murders in the outer boroughs? Unh, yes. Barry responded to that and my criticism of the Times coverage of David Blaine:

first, the times wrote a long sunday piece on may 7th about blaine and did
a television Read More

By Staff 5/10/06 5:06pm

The Times Is Mean to David Blaine

Did you notice how awful the Times was to David Blaine today? The stunning end to his marine marathon at Lincoln Center got winked off in the Arts section, while Dan Barry in his Metro section column (sorry—Times Select) seemed to say that Blaine was responsible for blowing up soldiers in Iraq and Read More