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Times Star Sorkin: Too Cozy With
Wall Street?

Colleagues clash with Too Big to Fail author

Nov 9, 09 12:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Andrew Ross Sorkin isn't the only entrepreneurial writer in the New York Times stable, but he might be the most successful, with his DealBook blog and newsletter, his Times column, and now his bestseller, Too Big to Fail making him ubiquitous in the media these days. “It’s hard... More »

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Wall Street • New York Times • journalism • Graydon Carter • financial crisis • Andrew Ross Sorkin • Too Big to Fail • business reporting

New York Times to Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs

Newspaper forced to reduce journalistic staff by 8%

Oct 19, 09 4:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - In an effort to continue cutting costs, the New York Times will eliminate 100 jobs from its 1,300-person newsroom. The paper will offer buyouts before instituting layoffs if necessary, executive editor Bill Keller said in an email to his staff. The move comes on the heels of an across-the-board... More »

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New York Times • journalism • buyout • revenue • newsrooms • newsroom cuts

 NYT Reporter Recounts 
 7 Months as Prisoner 

David Rohde begins first-person account of capture, escape

Oct 17, 09 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York Times reporter David Rohde begins a gripping first-person account of his 7 months as a Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan before he managed to escape. In the first of the five-part series, he writes of his capture ("I waited for the sound of gunfire. I knew I might... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • New York Times • kidnapping • reporter • hostage • David Rohde

OBITUARY

Pulitzer Winner
Nan Robertson Dead at 83

She wrote of her own battle with toxic shock syndrome

Oct 15, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Nan Robertson died yesterday at 83, apparently of heart disease. Robertson is best known for a vivid recounting of her battle with toxic shock syndrome in the Times Magazine, which netted her the Pulitzer in 1983, and The Girls in the ... More »

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New York Times • women's rights • alcoholism • obituary • reporter • gender equality • Nan Robertson • toxic shock

APPRECIATION

Safire Was No 'Nattering Nabob of Negativism': Dowd

They don't make 'em like Safire anymore, writes Times colleague Dowd

Sep 30, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Safire, to use the phrase he coined, was anything but a "nattering nabob of negativity," writes his New York Times "colleague in columny" Maureen Dowd. The former Nixon speechwriter—who once told Dowd he had been frozen out by the Times' liberal writers until he... More »

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New York Times • conservative • journalism • columnists • William Safire

ANALYSIS

Leakers Have Agendas—That Journos Hide

From gossip to war,
the press is too kind
to its sources

Sep 28, 09 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the past few days the New York Times and Washington Post broke three major stories with the help of leaks: John Edwards' readiness to declare paternity, Stanley McChrystal's blunt assessment of the Afghanistan war, and Barack Obama's intervention in the New York governor's race. For Post media columnist... More »

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John Edwards • New York Times • Washington Post • Bob Woodward • American media • press leaks • David Paterson • Stanley McChrystal • Howard Kurtz

obituary

Times Columnist William Safire Dead at 79

Ex-Nixon speechwriter, Pulitzer winner was forceful voice on right

Sep 27, 09 1:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist William Safire died today outside Washington, the paper reports. He was 79 and suffered from cancer. A onetime speechwriter for Richard Nixon, Safire, a self-described "libertarian conservative," used his background as a reporter and love for English usage to punch up his... More »

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cancer • New York Times • obituary • Pulitzer Prize • Richard Nixon • journalism • death • grammar • political coverage • word usage • William Safire • New York Times Magazine • wordplay

OPINION

 Ivy League Crimes 
 Are More Equal 
 Than Others 

To grab headlines, commit or fall victim to murder at Harvard or Yale

Sep 18, 09 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The killing of Yale grad student Annie Le dominated headlines around the world, "but every murder is uniquely dramatic," Jack Shafer writes for Slate. Why this one? It involves a magic word. "Three murders at a Midwestern college equal one murder at Harvard or Yale," Shafer... More »

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media • newspaper • New York Times • Yale University • Ivy League • crime • murder • homicide • tabloids • media coverage • Oklahoma State University • Harvard University • Annie Le • Raymond Clark • Nancy Grace

OPINION

 Student Loan Bill 
 a No-Brainer That 
 Actually Might Pass 

But issue of rising tuition remains

Sep 17, 09 9:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - For health reform watchers despairing that lawmakers "will never be able to do anything, ever," it's time to turn an eye on the no-brainer student loan reform in the House, Gail Collins writes in the New York Times. Right now, the government gives banks money, pays them to... More »

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Democrats • New York Times • higher education • House of Representatives • health care reform • student loan reform • college tuition • House Republicans • Rep. John Kline

British Army Blasts Rescued Times Reporter

'Irresponsible' Taliban abductee was warned of imminent danger

Sep 10, 09 6:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The death of British soldier during the rescue of a New York Times reporter has British Army brass up in arms, the Telegraph reports. Corporal John Harrison and interpreter Sultan Munadi died early yesterday in an area of Afghanistan journalist Stephen Farrell had been cautioned about. “When... More »

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Afghanistan • New York Times • United Kingdom • England • reporter • soldier • rescue mission • Stephen Farrell • Sultan Munadi • John Harrison • commando

 Times Scribe 
 Recounts Ordeal 
 as 'Taliban Embed 
 at Gunpoint' 

Afghanis, negotiators angered by operation that killed Steven Farrell's interpreter

Sep 10, 09 3:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four days in the hands of the Taliban often felt more like a tour of insurgent territory than a hostage ordeal, writes rescued New York Times journalist Stephen Farrell. The militants struck his interpreter, Sultan Munadi, with a rifle when the two were seized, but did not mistreat them afterward—... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • New York Times • journalists killed • journalist • British military • Stephen Farrell • Sultan Munadi

 Kidnapped Times 
 Reporter Freed in 
 Deadly Rescue 

Afghan interpreter, British commando die in operation

Sep 9, 09 4:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - A New York Times reporter held hostage by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan was freed today when British troops raided the militants' compound, but his Afghan interpreter and a British commando were killed during the rescue. Stephen Farrell was abducted Saturday while covering the aftermath of the NATO strike on... More »

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Afghanistan • New York Times • journalists killed • Afghanistan war • David Rohde • Stephen Farrell

TV REVIEW

 Grown-Ups Return 
 to At the Movies 


Sep 7, 09 5:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - ABC execs seem to be trying their hardest to atone for the “two Bens” period of At the Movies, replacing Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz with two of print criticism’s best—AO Scott of the New York Times and and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune. The result... More »

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New York Times • ABC • movie review • Chicago Tribune • Ben Lyons • film criticism • AO Scott • Michael Phillips • At the Movies • Ben Mankiewicz

GLOSSIES

 The Washington Post Is 
 Odds-On Fave to Survive 

Newspaper trimmed staff, and it's paid off: Wolff

Sep 4, 09 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like America's other newspapers, the Washington Post is in pain, operating $86 million in the red after axing 400 reporters. “And yet,” Newser founder Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair, “if you had to look for a circumstance out of which a newspaper might have the... More »

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New York Times • Washington Post • business models • Michael Wolff • newspaper industry • Kaplan • Katharine Weymouth • Don Graham

OPINION

 Obama and Brooks: Best Buds 

The odd friendship between a conservative columnist and liberal president

Aug 31, 09 5:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nominal conservative David Brooks is one of President Obama’s unlikeliest allies, writes Gabriel Sherman for the New Republic. The New York Times columnist was on board early, publishing an op-ed titled “Run, Barack, Run” in 2006. Lately, Brooks has written more favorably of Obama than Paul Krugman has.... More »

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Barack Obama • New York Times • Weekly Standard • columnists • Paul Krugman • David Brooks • bromance

(Newser) - Executives at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. have been meeting with rival newspaper publishers about a consortium that would charge for web content. The publishers of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times are all believed to have met with Jonathan Miller, the News Corp. officer overseeing digital... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • New York Times • Tribune Company • Washington Post • online news • New York Times Company • News Corp • newspaper industry • Jonathan Miller • Hearst

Disgraced Reporter Jayson Blair Now a Life Coach

Psychologist: 'he can relate to patients just beautifully'

Aug 20, 09 11:21 AM CDT
(AP) - Former journalist Jayson Blair knows his new profession—life coach—smacks some people in the face like a bad punchline. "People say, 'Wait a minute. You're a life coach?' That makes no sense,'" says Blair, who’s best known for foisting plagiarism and fabrications into the pages of... More »

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New York Times • plagiarism • fabrication • Jayson Blair • life coach

(Newser) - Ben Stein is miffed about his summary expulsion from the New York Times’ Sunday business section, and he explains why in a lengthy piece for the American Spectator. Booted over a TV commercial he did for an online credit reporting service—not his first commercial, and not a subject... More »

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New York Times • columnists • Ben Stein • editorial pages • conflict of interest • credit score • fired • FreeScore

(Newser) - Ben Stein has been booted from his job as a New York Times columnist for shilling for an online credit report service, Gawker reports. Stein touts the value of FreeScore.com in television commercials, but the Times’ ethics policy states “it is an inherent conflict for... More »

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Internet • New York Times • economist • columnists • Ben Stein • newspaper editorials • journalistic ethics • credit score

NY Times Video Obits Give the Departed 'The Last Word'

Non-Bush ex-president  has already made one

Jul 30, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Obituaries are a newspaper standby, but the New York Times has removed the journalistic middleman with its series of video obits, Editor & Publisher reports. After starting 2 years ago with humorist Art Buchwald’s greeting of “Hi, I’m Art Buchwald and I just died,” the Times... More »

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New York Times • Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • obituary • video • George HW Bush • George W. Bush • former presidents • celebrity death • Art Buchwald • video obituary

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