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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
4,583 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 »

the new york times is just a fancy blog

Times Managing Editor Blogs

Jill Abramson, managing editor for news at the Times, finally has a way to share with the world the information she finds most interesting and relevant. Abramson began blogging tonight, apparently for the first time, if you set aside a structured panel discussion last December on a Times Book Review site. Her post to Times blog The Caucus was about comments from Michelle Obama on charges of elitism against her husband, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Writes a snarky Times staffer: More »

10:44 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Ryan Tate
1,015 views, 3 comments

Latest by 8Millionth: Can the word "blog" be dead now? Singing it to the tune of Monty Python's Spam song clearly reveals the word is not the bee's knees. This is not a swamp (well, Gawker is not a swamp). Diary? Celebrity or Political or more »

Managing editor Jill Abramson's comfy new office. Nice chairs!

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Casting "Judith Miller: The Movie"

Good news for cineaste media junkies! Variety brings news of a film based on the Judith Miller affair!

Rod Lurie will next direct his script "Nothing but the Truth," a drama about a D.C.-based female newspaper reporter who outs a CIA agent and is imprisoned for refusing to reveal her source.Cast is mobilizing for an October production start. Talks are under way for Kate Beckinsale to play the journalist, Matt Dillon the prosecutor, Vera Farmiga the CIA agent, Edie Falco (in her first role since "The Sopranos") the editor of the newspaper that published the story...
Does that make Edie the Times's Jill Abramson? And who will play Time's Norman Pearlstine, who caved in the face of threats from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and told his reporter Matt Cooper to testify? Anyway, interesting choices. Let's see how the cast stacks up against their real-life counterparts? More »

12:15 PM on Fri Jul 20 2007
By abalk
1,775 views, 23 comments

Latest by AlbanyEye: Parker Posey as Miller. They can make her look older. A lot older. more »

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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
8,228 views, 5 comments

i'm dancing as fast as i can

'NYT' Races To Trash Rupert Murdoch

Looks like the New York Times is anxious to get that Jill Abramson-helmed investigation of Rupert Murdoch out to the public as quickly as possible—if Matt Drudge and his caps-lock is to be believed. More »

11:43 AM on Fri Jun 22 2007
By abalk
2,074 views, 1 comment

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You Run Down Jill Abramson, You Pay The Price

  • New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson is suing the driver that ran her down and his employers too. [P6]
  • According to the ad department, the New York Observer is "New York City's newest real estate read." How thrilling. [WWD]
  • The Boston Herald, which now owes $2 million in libel damages, asks court to reconsider its lost appeal over confusing testimony. Also: Confusing article! [Boston Herald]
  • New York's semi-annual New York Look fashion supplement photo-thing will be "nothing like" the Times T-thing. [WWD]
  • Conrad Black's investor relations guy warned him that a $3 million Park Avenue apartment at corporate expense would seem inappropriate. [LAT]
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    9:56 AM on Tue May 22 2007
    By Choire
    529 views, 1 comment

    Latest by Pope John Peeps II: The fucking Conrad Black trial media coverage is one of the biggest goddamn crocks of shit in the history of crocks of shit. They don't tell you anything real about the trial at all. Ooooh David Radler admitted that he's more »

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    Remainders: 'NYT' Catfight

  • NYT managing editor Jill Abramson gets into it with playwright David Hare, tells him that the Times is "the central arbiter of taste and culture in the city of New York." We'd argue with that—but if it isn't, well, what is? Right. Also: theater people are never fucking happy with anything. [NYP]
  • Elle magazine editor and Project Runway judge Nina Garcia gives birth to human baby! [The Daily]
  • The New Yorker corrects the record to show that poetess Dana Goodyear submitted a (presumably rejected) poem to Poetry in 2003. [ETP]
  • First looks at the Libertine for Target collection. Bright colors! Fun! [Fashionista]
  • The forthcoming Greenwich Hotel will "make the Bowery Hotel look like the Red Roof Inn." [DBTH]
  • Old journalist interviews young journalists, pontificates. [AJR]
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    7:20 PM on Mon Mar 26 2007
    By Doree Shafrir
    1,397 views, 10 comments

    Latest by CrapTractor: @CitySpecific: your friend just made me spit coffee on my keyboard. When its fug by huge marxist liberal standards, you know its bad. And, yes, Hare was prolly referring to Isherwoo. (whose review of Spring Awakening remains an eleven on more »

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    Jill Abramson: Your 'Elle' Career Woman

    This month's Elle has a profile of New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson. It's pretty competent, instead of being all "OMG lady news executive!," and, as today's WWD notes, it's fairly thorough. More »

    11:30 AM on Fri Mar 9 2007
    By abalk2
    3,378 views, 16 comments

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    Media Bubble: Who's The Next Tiny Keller?

  • Who will succeed Bill Keller as Times executive editor: Jill Abramson or Dean Baquet? Get set for the inevitable Hillary-Obama comparisons. Either way, oddly, the real job worth having seven years from now will be digital fella Jon Landman's. [WWD]
  • Doesn't anyone want to make a deal with Google/YouTube? [MediaPost]
  • Jeffrey Chodorow shelled out $80,000 for the ad denouncing Frank Bruni. That kind of money buys three steaks at the Kobe Club! [NYS]
  • Ron Burkle to shed some of his Wild Oats. Hahaha, get it? [NYP]
  • New chairman at Dow Jones. [E&P]
  • Looks like Fox News' crappy right wing comedy show did about exactly as well as Comedy Central's crappy Sarah Silverman show. Our theory? People will watch pretty much anything. [CCInsider]
  • Times Book Review not exactly busting its ass to find ladies and minorities. Maybe they could get a few reviews out of Baquet and Ambramson. [Harvard Crimson]
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    9:33 AM on Thu Feb 22 2007
    By abalk2
    581 views, 6 comments

    Latest by Seeräuber Jenny: @JupiterPluvius: Thank you, JP. I figured the lawsuit went nowhere. But I have to go look up his book now. PJ more »

    media bubble

    Media Bubble: Who Cares About Rate Base, So Long as Your Shirt Is Tucked In?

    • Details missed its rate base on eight of 10 issues in 2005. Fun. [Ad Age]
    • Martha Stewart launches Blueprint today in a bid to reach younger readers. There should probably be a joke about Alexis here, but we can't think of one. [NYP]
    • Daily Candy remains for sale. [NYM]
    • Punch Sulzberger has allegedly said that he'll read the Times on the computer when he can take a computer into the bathroom with him. Now, apparently, he can. [NYT]
    • Kurt Andersen thinks we're in a tech bubble again. How does he know? Because Michael Wolff wants in. [NYM]
    • Simon Dumenco answers the questions you didn't ask, including whether he has a clothing line and what his jingle sounds like. [Ad Age]
    • Existentially speaking, who is Brian Williams? [MW]
    • NYT M.E. Jill Abramson's grandfather could have invested early in Paramount Pictures but didn't. [NYSun]

    4:46 PM on Mon Apr 24 2006
    By Jesse
    137 views, 1 comment

    Latest by Narnia: So happy that Kurt Anderson has finally brought his prolific and prescient perspective on the internet and (gasp!) its resurrection to the printed page. Too bad he lacked the foresight to step beyond his aol.com email address. emailandersen@aol.com Way to blow your more »

    media bubble

    Media Bubble: Conde Biz Mag Is Staffing Up

    • Ad-sales side of Conde's forthcoming business mag is filling up; prez/pub David Carey expects mag to be fully staffed — biz and editorial — by Thanksgiving. [MIN]
    • Breaking: More and more people people are reading newspapers on the web. [WP]
    • Candace Bushnell, Cindi Leive, Jill Abramson, and Geena Davis win New York Women in Communications' Matrix Awards. [WWD]
    • Bill Keller is overly absorbed with questions of self-absorption, says Jay Rosen. [Guardian]

    2:31 PM on Tue Apr 4 2006
    By Jesse
    109 views, Comment