Until about ten minutes ago, Matt Drudge was reporting that he had obtained a damning internal document from The New Republic proving that “Baghdad diarist” Scott Beauchamp, who was accused of fabricating portions of war reports he published in the magazine over the summer, had refused to stand behind his stories when top editors questioned Read More
Seven months have passed since The New Republic radically redesigned its print edition and switched to a biweekly publication schedule. Now, editor Franklin Foer says it’s time for the Web site to change as well.
In an interview yesterday, Mr. Foer said that the new TNR.com will launch on Tuesday, October 23rd*; the redesign, Read More
Last week, New Republic editor Franklin Foer released a statement detailing the results of an internal investigation of columns written by Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, who is stationed in Iraq.
Under the name Scott Thomas, three columns offered harrowing accounts of the experiences (and degraded morals) of troops. Scenes include an Iraqi boy whose tongue Read More
"We care a lot about our journalistic reputation and integrity, and when people raise questions, I think we have to do everything in our power to make sure we get it right,” said New Republic editor Franklin Foer, by phone this afternoon.
Since the Weekly Standard first questioned the accuracy of Read More
New Republic editor Franklin Foer tells The New York Times today that the magazine is investigating articles written under the pen name Scott Thomas and billed as the magazine's "Baghdad Diarist."
Three articles have been attributed to Thomas in the magazine since February, describing gruesome events in Iraq from the point of view of Read More
It feels like a burden has been lifted from me,” Martin Peretz said on Feb. 27.
For the first time in three decades, Mr. Peretz, 68, no longer owns a stake in The New Republic. He was on the phone from Cambridge, Mass., some two hours after the Canadian media conglomerate CanWest Global Communications announced Read More
On October 19, New York Times Company chairman Arthur Sulzberger received a letter. It had been drafted by the Boston Newspaper Guild, and signed by 26 political and labor leaders. It expressed support for The Boston Globe, which is owned by the Times Company.
Mr. Sulzberger wrote back. He mentioned his pride in the paper’s Read More
On October 19, New York Times Company chairman Arthur Sulzberger received a letter. It had been drafted by the Boston Newspaper Guild, and signed by 26 political and labor leaders. It expressed support for The Boston Globe, which is owned by the Times Company.
Mr. Sulzberger wrote back. He mentioned his pride in the paper’s Read More
David Hirshey, soccer fan, HarperCollins heavyweight and regular Jewish mensch, had taken the better part of the afternoon off from work. So had such landsmen as Little, Brown editor in chief Geoff Shandler, author David Friedman and Gui Stampur, a former Columbia soccer captain with a wiry frame and European hair.
It was approaching noon Read More
In 2004, Franklin Foer, then a writer for The New Republic and Slate, published a book called How Soccer Explains the World. It was a good book, essentially nine or 10 travel pieces that explored not so much how the game explains the world, but how it reflects the world. It had some holes, some Read More
