By John Koblin 1/05/08 3:44pm

Allman Brothers Rock Out As Times Crashes Des Moines Reports

Yesterday’s Times report from Iowa was produced to an Allman Brothers soundtrack.

The newspaper’s bureau in Des Moines is a conference room on the third floor of a building which, in the large banquet room immediately through the wall, had booked Ron Paul’s fifth-place victory party.

Hillary-beat reporter Pat Healy said that “one second it’s Read More

By John Koblin 11/15/07 7:06pm

Hillary and the Media

In a piece for The New Republic released on Tuesday, Michael Crowley reports on the fear tactics employed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign team, particularly top communications strategist Howard Wolfson.

No political reporters were willing to go on the record for the piece, and one explained why: "They’re too smart. They’ll figure out who Read More

By John Koblin 11/08/07 3:22pm

Nagourney Calls Robertson’s Rudy Endorsement ‘A Stunt’

Last night in the New York Times building, before a crowd of over 300, five members of the Times political team — assistant managing editor Rick Berke, chief political reporter Adam Nagourney, online political editor Kate Phillips, and reporters Patrick Healy and Jodi Kantor — held a surprisingly frank conversation about the 2008 presidential campaign Read More

By Staff 8/23/06 9:15am

The Morning Read: August 23, 2006

Mike Bloomberg said he’s staying in City Hall and ruled out a presidential run.

Patrick Healy looks at Hillary Clinton’s anti-war challenger, Jonathan Tasini. He’s progressive, but as the head of Democracy for America noted, “I think progressives are a lot more pragmatic than people think…”

Another Hillary challenger, Republican candidate Read More

By Joe Conason 6/05/06 12:00am

Bill Travels, Hillary Runs, The Media Leers

Of all possible explanations for the mainstream media’s preoccupation with the Clinton marriage, the most innocuous is nostalgia for a better time, when we were able to worry less about war, corruption, catastrophe and incompetence, and more about sex. Bad news only intensifies the urge to ignore reality and focus on triviality—a predilection seemingly shared Read More

By Staff 1/30/06 9:37am

Everybody’s a Press Critic

“Patrick Healy doesn’t get on the plane after that snotty thing. Cooper did that great profile. Cooper may be on the plane.”

Paterson aide to Spitzer aide in Rye Brook Saturday. Times readers all.

By Staff 3/28/05 8:34am

The Competition

The all-important Nagourney/Slackman political reporting slot at the Times is going to Pat Healy. No, not that Pat Healy. That Pat Healy.

Here’s the memo:

Subject: good news from metro
To: The Staff
From: Susan Edgerley
March 26, 2005

Patrick D. Healy will become Metro’s next government and politics correspondent, Read More

By Tom Scocca 1/24/05 12:00am

Off the Record

When he was getting started as a reporter, Jack Patrick O’Gilfoil Healy didn’t think much about his byline. He signed his work “Pat Healy,” the name he went by; sometimes, he went with the more formal “Patrick Healy.”

“I think Patrick and Pat are more or less the same,” said Mr. Healy, who is now Read More