Calderone has Bill Keller’s memo announcing changes on the political desk. In the biggest move, Matt Bai is transferring from The Times Magazine to The Times newspaper. He will be a political columnist. Bai joined The Times Magazine in 2002 from Newsweek. I can’t remember any other examples of an exclusive Times Magazine Read More
Matt Bai did not want to write his second book just about Barack Obama. What he wanted, he said recently, were “stationary targets” that would allow him to run at his own pace. He wanted a subject that wouldn’t involve the kind of reporting where his face would be “pressed up against the glass.”
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This Sunday’s Times Magazine isn’t online yet, but The Politicker got an early look at the grinning-Mark-Warner cover and the cover story, by Matt Bai. He portrays Warner as the likeliest anti-Hillary, and as a talented guy who’s not quite ready for prime time, and apparently unwilling to take the only path Read More
