On the evening of July 17, The New York Times announced plans to cut the width of its pages by one and a half inches, or 11 percent.
On July 18, New York Times stock dropped from 23.18 cents a share to 22.67 cents–a decline of 2.2 percent.
In joint memos announcing the page shrinkage, Read More
On Sunday, April 9, the New York Times reported on page A1 that the Vice President’s former Chief of Staff I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby had been authorized to leak to former Times reporter Judith Miller that Iraq was “vigorously trying to procure uranium” to produce a nuclear bomb.
The Times piece said that Libby Read More
In the ideal world of shopping, there are no failed products; there are only failed consumers. “My feeling is, we were ahead of our time,” said Ariel Foxman, editor of the suddenly defunct Cargo magazine.
Mr. Foxman was on the phone from his 15th-floor office at 4 Times Square on March 28, 24 hours Read More
In the ideal world of shopping, there are no failed products; there are only failed consumers. “My feeling is, we were ahead of our time,” said Ariel Foxman, editor of the suddenly defunct Cargo magazine.
Mr. Foxman was on the phone from his 15th-floor office at 4 Times Square on March 28, 24 hours after Read More
The piece that Judith Miller is working on for the Atlantic appears to be a profile of Libya’s Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, according to sources familiar with the magazine or with Miller’s activities. Earlier this week, Miller told the Media Mob she had recently returned from the Middle East.
According to one source, Miller’s Atlantic Read More
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
Covert manipulation of the Iraqi news media certainly must have seemed like a brilliant idea to some civilian genius in the Pentagon. In a conflict that is costing us billions every week, even the projected cost of $300 million must have seemed cheap. What could possibly go wrong with a plan to pay journalists in Read More
Sometimes the smoke of battle has to clear before vital issues can be seen. So it is with the Judith Miller affair.
Despite all the official niceties that accompanied Ms. Miller’s recent departure from The New York Times, few people doubt that she was pushed into retirement.
Perhaps there are good reasons for her ouster Read More
In late August of 2002, David Sanger, White House correspondent for The New York Times, found himself in the far west wing of the West Wing: at President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Tex.
There, in what must have been a fairly routine meeting with then–National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, he was told in Read More
Dear Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.:
Who are you kidding?
This is a real question, I’m afraid. It’s what people want to know: the people downstairs from you and the people outside—the rest of the press, the public, the readers. You do care what the readers think, or at least you said you do, with Read More
