By Matt Haber 6/16/08 4:57pm

iChatting With Jim Romenesko

As you may know if you read half a dozen media news and gossip sites, Howell Raines profiled the Poynter Institute’s Jim Romenesko in this month’s Portfolio. Mr. Raines calls Mr. Romenesko’s media news site, "a high-tech tom-tom for angst-ridden members of a dying tribe" and calls the man himself "both the medium Read More

By John Koblin 5/15/08 11:34am

Michael Oreskes, Editor of IHT, to Leave Times Company for A.P.

The Media Mob has learned that longtime New York Times editor Mike Oreskes is leaving the company for the Associated Press.

Mr. Oreskes, who is currently the editor of the Times-owned International Herald Tribune, has been working in one capacity or another under the Times umbrella for the past 27 years. Before he took his Read More

By Felix Gillette 5/12/08 6:06pm

Raines on Chris Matthews: ‘Fragile’

Last month, Mark Leibovich wrote an extensive and somewhat unflattering profile of MSNBC anchor and political guru Chris Matthews for the cover of the New York Times Magazine.

How did Mr. Matthews feel about the piece?

According to freshly unearthed and highly anecdotal evidence: not so well!

To wit: In the current issue Read More

By Tom Scocca 4/08/08 10:55am

In Pulitzer Race, Bill Keller Does Not Yet Catch Howell Raines

The New York Times under executive editor Bill Keller still has fewer Pulitzer victories to its credit than during the short-lived reign of his predecessor, Howell Raines.

Under Raines, who served approximately 21 months before resigning in 2003 in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, the paper’s news pages published seven Pulitzer-winning entries.

In Read More

By John Koblin 3/17/08 5:12am

In Portfolio, Raines Fears for the Times

Howell Raines is back.

The former executive editor of the New York Times has written his first media column for Portfolio, and it’s about—surprise!—the New York Times. It will appear in the April issue that hits newstands later this week. (Online this morning.)

The article, titled "Murdoch v. the Times," examines the Read More

By Gabriel Sherman 4/10/06 12:00am

Times Assesses Its Relationship To Discovery TV

The New York Times is considering pulling up stakes in its great venture into television.

Though the award-winning but ratings-deficient Discovery Times channel is a 50-50 partnership with Discovery Communications, Discovery currently controls four of the seven seats on its board. According to sources at The Times and the Discovery Channel familiar with the negotiations, Read More

By Gabriel Sherman 4/10/06 12:00am

Times Assesses Its Relationship To Discovery TV

The New York Times is considering pulling up stakes in its great venture into television.

Though the award-winning but ratings-deficient Discovery Times channel is a 50-50 partnership with Discovery Communications, Discovery currently controls four of the seven seats on its board. According to sources at The Times and the Discovery Channel familiar with the Read More

By Staff 3/24/06 12:10pm

Howell Raines Gets $3.5 M for Townhouse


Howell Raines.

Former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines–who was forced out of paper after the Jayson Blair debacle–is now getting out of the West Village, too (and, as far as we can tell, out of New York City entirely).

Mr. Raines recently sold his West 11th Street townhouse for $3.5 Read More

By Staff 3/23/06 11:23am

Miller Back from Middle East, Writing for [em]Atlantic[/em]

A source at the Atlantic confirms that former New York Times reporter/journalistic privilege test case Judith Miller is working on a piece for the magazine. The possibility of Miller’s return to writing was first reported yesterday by Gawker. According to the Atlantic source, Miller is working on a reported piece–and not a first-person account Read More