Times’ Santos Leaving the City Hall Beat

New York Times reporter Fernanda Santos is transferring from the City Hall beat. Santos, who covered upstate New York before coming to Room 9, will be transferring to the paper’s Queens beat. (Yes, they have one!).

“I’m a street reporter at heart, so this is a beat that suits me better,” she said in an Read More

Bloomberg Maintains ‘Maintain’ Means Lie, Or Something

Around here it’s Newsday everyday! Earlier today, Michael Bloomberg got all up in Newsday City Hall reporter Michael Frazier’s face after the reporter used one of those catch-all reporter-words—"Mr. Mayor, you maintain that …"—which Mr. Bloomberg thought amounted to calling him a liar. "Sir, the next time you want to insinuate that I lied, Read More

A Verb Michael Bloomberg Doesn’t Like

Here’s the mayor, during a City Hall press conference about a new way of processing juvenile court cases, taking issue with Newsday reporter Michael Frazier’s use of the word “maintain” in a question about the Sean Bell case.

Newsday’s New City Hall Guy

Welcome to Newsday‘s new City Hall reporter, Michael Frazier, who just set up shop, for the time being, in Room 4A. He’s replacing Karla Schuster (pictured above talking to Frazier at a press conference this morning) who heads back to Melville to cover the Long Island scene.

Frazier worked for the Associated Press in their Read More