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New York Times

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 »

3:09 PM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,689 views, 7 comments

Latest by Bell County: @moff: O thnap. 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. More »

5:22 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Nick Denton
4,601 views, 14 comments

Latest by DanielTunkelang: I think there are two separate issues: attitude and content. Every writer should have an attitude, and it serves no purpose for writers to repress that attitude until the resulting writing is blander than tapioca. But writing a news story more »

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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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]

11:34 AM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Sheila
181 views, 9 comments

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. More »

4:05 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Pareene
3,740 views, 24 comments

Latest 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 »

new york times

Transcript Of 'NYT' Speech Announcing 100 Layoffs
Keller: "We intend to move quickly"

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 »

3:05 PM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Maggie
1,901 views, 19 comments

Latest by PRIsNotJournalism: I love the 50 cent-esque Kevlar vest reference. Magic. more »

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! More »

5:08 PM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Maggie
1,344 views, 5 comments

Latest by ragepotato: we shall fight on the beaches when staffing permits, we shall fight on the landing grounds by paying smug neocon prognosticators, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, or at least the building's temperature will give this impression, we shall more »

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! More »

1:29 PM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Maggie
1,370 views, 14 comments

Latest by n/a: Bill Keller "suggested that the cuts could not help but affect the newspaper's journalism." C'mon, with 1,332 people, you've got a newsroom bigger than some Midwest towns. With the recent trimming of The Times' size, maybe someone could do a more »

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.

2:55 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Maggie
595 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: Wait a minute! Let's not get our collective e-panties in a twist. I just watched Fox News and they told me there was nothing to worry about. Everything is fine. Stop worrying. Things will be fine as soon. Shhhhhhhhh...... Relaaaxxxxx....... Shhhhhhh........ more »

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. More »

1:50 PM on Wed Nov 28 2007
By Maggie
6,295 views, 84 comments

Latest by PandoraSpocks: While they re-arrange the deck chairs in first class at the Gray Lady did it occur to anyone that many of these fired employess will end up blogging? more »

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]

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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. More »

11:20 AM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By Doree Shafrir
7,338 views, 22 comments

Latest by Flashman: @yellojkt: He'll give us his solemn assessment, in six months. Mais Gawker, you never delivered the money shot: quando quando quando? When will I be able to welcome Paul Krugman back into my cache? more »

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 »

12:20 PM on Tue Jul 3 2007
By Doree Shafrir
8,246 views, 5 comments

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 »

10:47 AM on Fri Jun 22 2007
By Doree Shafrir
4,641 views, 12 comments

Latest by slinkimalinki: hundreds of journalists and only 500 bottles of beer? no wonder nobody got too drunk. more »

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 »

1:46 PM on Wed Jun 20 2007
By Doree Shafrir
5,888 views, 4 comments

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]

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week in review

Our Specialty Is Consumption. Our Subspecialty Is Diptheria.

  • We took one last look at the Look Book.
  • We overheard the Times' Bill Keller telling his minions to "fake it till you make it."
  • We got a new snotty little sister who's always borrowing our makeup without asking.
  • We watched Rosie and Elisabeth resolve the war in Iraq.
  • We bathed in Tom Ford's musk.
  • We put the whole sorry Peter Braunstein mess behind us.
  • We tried to put the whole sorry Eric Schaeffer mess behind us. Again.
  • But not before we found him a dream date.
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    3:00 PM on Fri May 25 2007
    By Emily Gould
    1,320 views, 3 comments

    Latest by Pope John Peeps II: Speaking of the Rosie/Hasseltits war, I'd just like to bump this comment, by Sloppy Seconds, which is AWESOME. clicky clicky (P.S. "Your thoughts defend your own insinuations?" It's nice that Hasselhack's tits and tan can fill in for the 40% of more »

    inside jobs

    Bill Keller: "Our Stories Are Too Often Too Long"

    Today the New York Times held its "Throw Stuff at Bill" (that would be Keller!) meetings—one this morning and two this afternoon. We got a report about the early afternoon session, and learned that the future of the Times is all about Sewell Chan, among other things. More »

    6:30 PM on Thu May 24 2007
    By Doree Shafrir
    7,657 views, 15 comments

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