At 3:35 this afternoon, an estimated 400 rank and file members of the New York Times union left their desks for a walk-out that began on 40th Street, headed up Eighth Avenue and turned right on 41st. As the crowd reassembled outside the north entrance to Times headquarters, union organizers such as columnists Jim Dwyer Read More
Columbia Journalism Review interviewed New York Times business reporter Michael Powell (an Observer alumnus). Mr. Powell was The Washington Post’s New York bureau chief, and he covered Mayor Giuliani after September 11. Mr. Giuliani hated this. Mr. Powell was also part of The Times metro desk’s epic scoop about Governor Spitzer’s Read More
With his poll numbers sagging, his health care bill in limbo, and new threats to his hegemony popping up around him, The Times checks in on Chuck Schumer this morning. And finds him less voluble than normal.
“The usually unavoidable-for-comment, if-it’s-Sunday-here-is-my-press-release senior senator from New York Read More
The ad hits on a theme Michael Bloomberg’s campaign has been pushing to reporters for some time: that when Bill Thompson is attacked over his tenure as president of the Board of Education, or over the pension fund, Thompson responds by saying other people had more responsibility in those areas than he did.
Michael Powell and Nicholas Confessore have the exegesis in the Times today that explains a bit of the reporting behind the paper’s major break on the Eliot Spitzer story on Monday, along with a behind-the-scenes look at his life for the last six days.
Powell and Confessore write that reporters at the paper Read More
Do you know what I think are the most beautiful words in the English language—certainly in the language of that great, lost invention, the all-American musical?
Right! Let’s do the whole combination, facing away from the mirror.
From the top,
A five, six, seven, eight!
I have only to hear that “a five, six, Read More
