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new york times
Bill Keller's Grand Media Tour
You simply cannot turn on your television these days without seeing New York Times editor Bill Keller expounding on something, or explaining something, or being made fun of. He is ubiquitous! More »
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Comment by nellicat: Would some of you journalist types please sound in about the "keeping secret the kidnapping of a NYT reporter" issue?... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Media Blackout
Why Did Nobody Pick Up The David Rohde Kidnapping Story?
As mentioned earlier: New York Times reporter David Rohde managed to escape his Taliban captors to freedom last night by hopping over a wall. He was imprisoned for seven months. How wasn't this widely reported? Even by us? Simple:
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By Foster KamerComment by DavidTate: [www.battlefieldtourist.com] I originally reported on this back in February and took a lot of flak in doing so for obvious reasons. However,... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Bill Keller Will Go Wherever He Wants, Suckas
In your waterlogged Thursday media column: Bill Keller defends his Iran trip, Jon Stewart is cruelly eviscerated, the Weather Channel wants big ratings so it can then fail like other TV networks, and the internet reigns supreme. More »
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Comment by MissPeacock: The Weather Channel is my guilty morning pleasure. I love their morning anchors (Kevin Robinson and Nicole Mitchell), but their... more » | Other threads
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wrong
Times Was Pretty Sure That Daily Show Thing Went Well
When the Daily Show sent Jason Jones to viciously mock the defenseless New York Times last week, the universal reaction was: Ouch. Except within the New York Times! They thought they did great. More »
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Comment by FormerEnglishMajor: John Koblin also finds out that the Daily Show cut out interviews with David Carr, Sewell Chan, and others, probably... 4 Responses | Other threads
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journalists
Bill Keller Can't Google 'Hooker' in Iran
Times executive editor Bill Keller is still in Iran, reporting today that Goggling "hooker" leads to an "access denied" message and that the Iranian government is pissed at muckraking Western journalists like himself for disrupting their regime. [New York Times]
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Comment by MoeGolden: spoiler: if he did google 'hooker', it would be nothing but Trannies, if you saw that HBO documentary....[www.belikeothers.com] 1 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
New York Times Editor Bill Keller Is Useless in Tehran
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has parachuted into Iran to lend his considerable expertise to his paper's coverage of the disputed election. He should have stayed home. More »
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By John CookComment by rhys1882: Keller's "analysis" is pretty much the same as you'd get from an average American on the street who has no... 2 Responses | Other threads
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print is dead
The Daily Show Visits the New York Times, Purveyors of 'Aged News'
In what might be the most painfully funny Daily Show skit ever produced, Jason Jones visited the New York Times building in Midtown and interviewed some of the paper's staff, quite uncomfortably. More »
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Comment by elinorwhyme: Ouch. You know these guys watch The Daily Show--how could they not have been prepared with a couple of zingers... 6 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
New York Times Editor Joins Ranks of the Twitterati
Everyone's joining Twitter, did you know? Even New York Times editor Bill Keller has gotten on board, we hear — and he's just as self-promotional as the rest! Today's other Twitter trivia. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by stanhalen: What? no one wants to weigh in on this silliness?.. @douchebag i had a hard booger today. it hurt. more » | Other threads
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media wars
WSJ Editor Slams 'Brain Dead' Times Readers
Gone are the days when the Wall Street Journal newsroom left brutal attacks on other media outlets to the Journal's rabid editorial page. Rupert Murdoch bought the paper to wage war, and it's happening. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ChillbearLatrigue: I really could care less if WSJ is mean about there success. I have a few ideas why it the... 7 Responses | Other threads
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internal memos
NYT Editor: 'There Is Nothing Sacrosanct about the Current Size of the Newsroom'
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has updated his staff on the cuts he's making to the newsroom budget. There had already been word that the City and Escapes sections — both largely produced by freelancers — were being scrapped. But today's memo makes it clear that the paper is looking to trim its freelance budgets everywhere, including ending the weekly fashion spread in the New York Times Magazine. More »
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Comment by Kari's Favorite Mark: I don't understand pages 3 and 4 - the jump won't be to the section the story belongs to, i.e.,... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Investigations Don't Require Ink, or Actual Investigation
In your temporarily de-Nolanated Friday media column: Hearst learns that investigations don't require ink, a lefty New York radio station gets locked out, Bill Keller's irony goes unappreciated, and Andrew Sullivan gets some help. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Aaron Altman: An investigative piece about a soccer player? I guess the P-I has achieved one of its goooooooooooooooooooals! 4 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
New York Times Compares Its Plight to the Slaughter of 400,000
In recent weeks, the New York Times started punching back at many of its critics, breaking with a longstanding tradition of staying above the fray. Today, that new strategy backfired. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Preopsician: I like to poke at the Times' smugness, but Keller is not guilty here. Look at what he said as... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
More Layoffs at Conde Nast Today
In your troubling Wednesday media column: layoffs at Conde Nast and the Boston Globe, Bill Keller fights back, King's officially dead, North Korea's still mean to journalists, and more: More »
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newspapers
Should the New York Times Charge For its Website?
NYT editor Bill Keller directly addressed questions about the paper's business model today—specifically, about charging for online news, and the possibility of the paper going non-profit. He'll have to decide sooner than he'd like. More »
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Comment by sample032: "What if, say, the 100 biggest papers in the nation all started charging for online access at once?" Wouldn't that be... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Bill Keller: Print is Not Dead!
In your lovely Monday media column: Bill Keller speaks on the NYT's future (it'll be fine!), New York's least fun media Super Bowl party revealed, papers advertise, and more! More »
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Comment by ADismalScience: The whole MacGruber bit, in my mind, is the biggest story of TV advertising right now. Keep in mind this... 3 Responses | Other threads
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bill keller
New York Times' Keller in Denial Mode
Succession politics plays out like palace intrigue at the New York Times and questions about how much longer executive editor Bill Keller plans to stay in his job are already stirring. Keller says, "Bullshit." More »
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Comment by Beautiful Stranger: when are they going to award the best comments of the week? i am feeling lucky. but I am also... 10 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
New York Times Layoffs Still Being Discussed in Business Suite
Despite the avalanche of media layoffs, (Gannett, Time Inc., and Business Week publisher McGraw-Hill have all announced major job cuts this week) New York Times executive editor Bill Keller bucked the trend by doing his best to pour cold water on our earlier tip about 20% layoffs coming to its 1,200-strong newsroom. Per the Observer, he told his staff, "I do not see another round of newsroom reductions on the horizon," and that he had access to some sort of special "investment fund" for new hires on the business desk. He even gave a non-denial denial of our original item: "Consider the source." Okay then! But what we're still hearing is that Keller's editorial side of the paper is in the midst of a big fight with the business side over the timing and size of staff cuts. So, while layoffs may not be on his horizon, they are for the people looking at the numbers. More »
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Comment by Astigmatism: Gosh, Mr. Snyder, did Denton bring you in just so somebody else could post really unhappy stories over and over... 4 Responses | Other threads
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new york times
Times Says No More Layoffs
Despite the economic meltdown, and despite having its debt downgraded to junk status, the New York Times Company does not plan any more layoffs, Times editor Bill Keller told staff. There had been rumors of a 20 percent headcount reduction, but according to Keller's prepared remarks, as presented by the Observer, the paper thinks it can get by with some extreme belt-tightening. "There will be no luxuries and little comfort," Keller said rather darkly in the midst of a sugary pep-talk. That still doesn't explain how the Times Company will pay the half-a-billion dollars it has coming due over the next couple of years. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by The Captain of My Heart: The New York Times lost any credibility whatsoever in this election cycle where Sulzberger mandated everything from that bizarre cover... 2 Responses | Other threads
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new yorker festival
Peggy Noonan At The New Yorker Festival: Kind Of Embarrassing
Early Saturday morning I dragged myself to the New Yorker Festival in Midtown, to see media mensch Ken Auletta moderate a panel discussion with Times editor Bill Keller, Atlantic blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates, Slate press critic Jack Shafer, and breathless WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan, the token conservative. I'll leave out the boring recap parts and distill the experience down to its key point: Peggy Noonan should go back to writing political speeches, because—even taking into account the fact that she's a Republican hack—her dishonesty is embarrassing to watch. Ugh. More »
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Comment by gawkimo: Get it right. Palin is not an idiot; she's a dangerous moron. Yes, I am a lib-ril elitist. A proud... 7 Responses | Other threads
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new york times
A New Way For Times Reporters To Track Their Own Status
The New York Times launched its "social networking" feature TimesPeople months ago for no particular reason, and with no particular effect. Back then even top editor Bill Keller wasn't using it. But now he is! You know what this means, don't you? It's one more way for suckup Times reporters to track who the boss is favoring. Almost as good as looking at the front page! So what is Keller recommending? Let's see: More »
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Comment by thenicechubbygirlintheoffice: You know, big o'corporate types have been doing this for awhile. Check it out: [community20.blogspot.com] more » | Other threads
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new york times
Why No One Noticed the McCain Gambling Expose
The New York Times ran a huge (huge!) A1 investigative piece on John McCain and his weird gambling obsession and ties to the Indian Casino industry and Vegas and lobbyists and ten thousand other things yesterday. It was well-reported, historical in focus, and fair. It ran on the front page of the Sunday edition, which reaches almost half a million more readers than the weekday edition. But, you know, no one is talking about it. It didn't really stick! Did anyone read the whole thing? Were there bombshells? Who knows! What happened? The Times sabotaged itself, either intentionally or through ineptitude. Allow us to explain.
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By PareeneComment by What I Meant (not what I said): If only someone had a picture of an Indian in a tank, then this story would have legs. 5 Responses | Other threads
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emma gilbey keller
Wife Of Editor Gets Another Times Book Plug
Emma Gilbey Keller's new book "The Comeback" is, in part, about emerging from under the shadow of her husband, Times editor Bill Keller. Good luck with that. In the insular world of publishing, the Times Book Review still reigns supreme, and the positive Sunday notice on Emma Keller's title has already arched some eyebrows. Sure, the Keller family connection is disclosed. But people are already wondering about self-dealing at the Times after recent gushing praise for a book by a New York Times Co. executive and four separate plugs for a book by the husband of a company director — whose book-writing son also got notice in the paper. Then there's the efficient praise the Times had for Emma's last book. Newspaper gossips will remember it from the author. More » -
washington city paper
Whining About Whining About Whining
If there's one thing we're absolutely sick of it's journalists complaining about other journalists for no reason except to revel in the glorious, righteous contrarianism of complaint. And we are about to complain about it. Ha, cause we're so contrarian! Check out my surprising viewpoint, baby! I'd like to start off my complaint by telling Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple to shut up. More »
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Comment by muppet_baby: @ Erik Wemple: Journalist. Noun. A person who researches and writes stories for the sake of informing and IMPACTING the... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Timespeople
So What Do You Do, Bill Keller?
Intimate look at the New York Times alert! The paper has launched a social networking feature called "TimesPeople," which is a little like Facebook for Times employees (and the public!). But without any of Facebook's drunk pictures or other interesting features. Pictured, what editor Bill Keller is up to: not a damn thing. The only useful aspect of TimesPeople is that newsroom brown-nosers can track the Times in-crowd by keeping tabs on Keller's list of friends. He only has seven now, but one of them is Batman: More » -
newspapers
Why The Times Should Abandon The News-Opinion Divide
When Microsoft's bid for Yahoo fell through, hotshot reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin produced a scathing analysis of the deal-making skills of the Redmond software giant's boss, Steve Ballmer. 'Microsoft has tried to spin its reversal as a show of “discipline” and “self-control.” But what it really shows — painfully — is Mr. Ballmer’s indecisiveness about this deal.' Ouch! And fun! But you won't find Bill Keller and his fellow editors boasting about Sorkin's punchiness: because they're still in denial about the blurring of news and opinion, and so much else.
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By Nick DentonComment by johnnypotatoes: I'll go back and read the rest of this in a minute, but the first couple of paragraphs don't make... 1 Responses | Other threads
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In Brief
We Don't Care About Awards Anyhow
The NYT's news section under current editor Bill Keller, who has been in charge for 53 months, has only won six Pulitzers. In just 21 months under former editor Howell Raines, the news section won seven Pulitzers. The Times has been shut out of Pulitzers for its Iraq war coverage under Keller thus far. All of this adds up to one simple conclusion: Bill Keller is a more attractive man than Howell Raines. [NYO]
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Comment by famousauthor: I never read a story in the paper until it wins the Pulitzer Prize. My basement is filled with... more » | Other threads
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books
Bill Keller's YA Book About Mandela
Did you know that NYT executive editor Bill Keller has a new book out? That's OK, neither did anyone else! It's called Tree Shaker: The Story of Nelson Mandela, and it's sold 926 copies, according to BookScan. It's a biography for children from ages 9 to 12. As Portfolio points out, it didn't really get any press. Except, of course, for two mentions in the Times. [Portfolio Mixed Media]
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By SheilaComment by Ghostridemywhip: @belltolls: oh yeah, maybe it was done by his son Tom, as a therapeutic art project in the unreachable utah... more » | Other threads
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new york times
Rest of Media Shamed 'Times' Into Running McCain Story
The New Republic's story-of-the-story of the New York Times' story of how John McCain might've fucked lobbyist Vicki Iseman is up, and, as could probably be predicted, it's the story of Bill Keller being a total pussy and not letting his reporters go with all the awesome juicy stuff they were totally sure they had nailed down, provable or not. It's also the story of how now, basically, the standard for publication at the Times has slipped measurably closer to, say, ours.
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By PareeneComment by hercules q. einstein: She's lying about her age, right? She looks older than 40 to me, especially in other photos I've seen. more » | Other threads
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new york times
Transcript Of 'NYT' Speech Announcing 100 Layoffs
Say what you want about New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, who announced yesterday (left) the newspaper would be cutting 100 newsroom positions this year. But the guy gives a damn good bad-news speech. "We—all of us—have taken a badly wounded, publicly humiliated newsroom and restored it, largely by dint of great journalism, to a position of international esteem," Keller told his audience. "And we have done all of this while avoiding the cutting of muscle that has so badly weakened many of our competitors. Smugness, in our business, is death." Good line! "You pour your talent into this great miracle, and I am proud to be part of it." Aww. Feel inspired? Want to go change the world? Yeah! If you still have a job next month, you should totally go for it! After the jump, some key points from the in-house transcript of Keller's speech, which follows in full. More »
Keller: "We intend to move quickly"
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By MaggieComment by PRIsNotJournalism: I love the 50 cent-esque Kevlar vest reference. Magic. more » | Other threads
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layoffs
How The NYTimes Will Conquer Murdoch's Journal
According to a New York Times staffer who spoke to Gawker, the first major newsroom layoffs at the Times didn't surprise the 200 employees who got the news this morning from executive editor Bill Keller at his annual "Throw Stuff At Bill" meeting. "In some ways it was anticlimactic," the staffer said, noting that "it's stunning" how many Timesers sit around on their hands all day. Funny, this stuns us not at all! During the meeting, Keller mentioned the crummy economy and industry as a reason for the cuts. He also spent a good deal of time discussing how the Times could beat Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, or, as Keller put it today, "The New York Times Lite." Ouch. "We would be fools to underreact or to overreact," Keller was said to pronounce. "We cannot win by being defensive, we cannot curl up and act that way." Oooh! It's a real-live newspaper war!
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By MaggieComment by ragepotato: we shall fight on the beaches when staffing permits, we shall fight on the landing grounds by paying smug neocon prognosticators, we... more » | Other threads
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layoffs
'NYT' Cutting 100 Newsroom Jobs This Year
By year's end, the New York Times will cut 100 newsroom positions, executive editor Bill Keller announced this morning at his regular "Throw Stuff At Bill" meeting. "At the end of the year, the newsroom will be smaller than it is now," Keller told the group, warning that staffers should prepare for layoffs. "The newsroom leadership will share in the sacrifice," he said, according to an attendee. When the Times announced the elimination of a dozen support positions last fall, Keller said the paper would cut "a few management jobs in administrative areas," a far cry from today's announcement. Despite the planned cuts, Keller said today, the Times will still have 150 more newsroom staffers than any other paper; spokeslady Catherine Mathis tells Jeff Bercovici the newsroom's staff is currently 1,332. "As you know, we have not been reducing our staff. It's been quite the opposite," she told him. "We've been increasing the number of newsroom staff. [But] right now we're in the midst of a very difficult time in the business." Well that's odd. During the December cuts, Keller said something completely different!
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By MaggieComment by garbanzo314: Bill Keller "suggested that the cuts could not help but affect the newspaper's journalism." C'mon, with 1,332 people, you've got... more » | Other threads
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working 'with' the press
John McCain Gets Rowdy With The 'Times' Over Negative Story
John McCain is getting pushy with the New York Times over a Jim Rutenberg story he wants killed, according to Drudge. The planned piece, six weeks in the making, alleges that McCain gave special treatment to a lady lobbyist over pending telecom legislation. "Rutenberg had hoped to break the story before the Christmas holiday, sources reveal, but editor Keller expressed serious reservations about jounalism [sic] ethics and issuing a damaging story so close to an election," Drudge says. Drama! Also—convenient! Makes us totally forget about yesterday's news that the Times had acceded to a White House request to change the subhed on their CIA story.
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By MaggieComment by Feets-of-Flan: Wait a minute! Let's not get our collective e-panties in a twist. I just watched Fox News and they told... more » | Other threads
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merry christmas!
'Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs
About an hour ago, New York Times staffers received a holiday gift from executive editor Bill Keller—an announcement of layoffs! The cuts will come from the newsroom "for the first time in recent memory," according to the memo. A dozen "support positions" will be eliminated from the newsroom, along with "a number" of clerical administrative jobs; next year, several admin management positions will be cut. The Times apparently put a hiring freeze into place several weeks ago, and "except for those jobs that are critically important to our future ambitions, we intend to enforce it," Keller writes. Full memo after the jump.
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By MaggieComment by PandoraSpocks: While they re-arrange the deck chairs in first class at the Gray Lady did it occur to anyone that many... more » | Other threads
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how did he find time to executive edit
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller finished War & Peace yesterday! Which means he read he the whole thing in a week, while gallivanting around Iowa following Presidential campaigns and comparing all the candidates to doomed Tolstoy figures and imaging old Leo "tut-tutting from the press section" at all the idiot Iowans foolish enough to believe that the suit they nominate will have any power to affect the inexorable march of history. ['War and Peace' on the Campaign Trail [NYT] -
by the numbers
The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News
Last week, Keith Kelly claimed that the New York Times will finally end the long national joke that is TimesSelect—you just know Maureen Dowd is cursing those Freakonomics guys right now for being able to refuse to have their blog behind the TimesSelect pay wall!—and a quick look at the just-out July numbers confirms that the core group of 225,000 or so people who signed up to pay for the service in the first place are pretty much the same people who still subscribe. (Everyone else either gets it free as part of their home delivery service, or as part of a college/university deal.) Whenever it does get shut down, it'll be a speck of egg on the faces of Times CEO Janet Robinson and Publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. But the failure of TimesSelect is probably the least of their worries right now: Their ad revenue, especially in the Regional Media Group (all those little papers they own in places like Lakeland, Florida) and classifieds across the board, is having a bit of a summer slump.
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Comment by Flashman: @yellojkt: He'll give us his solemn assessment, in six months. Mais Gawker, you never delivered the money shot: quando quando quando?... more » | Other threads
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directories
Where To Find Your Favorite 'Times' Journalists In The New Building
Now that every department at the New York Times has moved into the new building, you're probably wondering where everyone has gone! So let's go floor-by-floor, shall we? And as we work our way up, we'll see who really matters in the Times organization. More » -
media parties
'Times' Building Farewell Party: "Like Dorkfest 2007"
Last evening, the staff of the New York Times bid their old building at 229 West 43rd St. one final farewell. Staffers were allowed to bring one guest and were asked to bring their own food and wine (beer and soft drinks were readily available), though it turned out that Pinch had sprung for a whole bunch of pizza. Whew. Our correspondent reports that Metro editor Joe Sexton has some sweet hip-hop moves. Get your head around that one. The full report follows! More »
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Comment by slinkimalinki: hundreds of journalists and only 500 bottles of beer? no wonder nobody got too drunk. more » | Other threads
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changing stories
The Shrinking 'New York Times'
Yesterday, a Times internal memo went around outlining the paper's upcoming width shrinkage. (It's happening August 6.) But there are a few curious items in the memo that seem to be at odds with what's been proposed in the past. More »
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Comment by ExPat: Forget a loss of news holes (long overdue). Oh so much better: a loss of news assholes. There are so,... more » | Other threads
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nice trim
The New York Times will at last slim down, circumcising an inch and a half of width. Which should help Bill Keller's whole "write shorter stories" campaign. [NYO] -
week in review
Our Specialty Is Consumption. Our Subspecialty Is Diptheria.
- We took one last look at the Look Book. More »
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