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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:51pm on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | Did the NY Times Play Softball with Eliot Spitzer's Flack?
Gawker asked the question on November 4, 2009:
"You'd think that, with blood in the water, the traditional coziness that develops between official flacks and the beat reporters who have to talk to them every day would break down into some kind of last-man-standing slugfest.
But in the Eliot Spitzer case, the opposite happened. The revelations upended the worlds of both reporter and flack alike, and the uncertainty, long hours, and breakneck pace of the scandal actually seemed to throw them together as they worked toward what seems, as one reads through 1,300 pages of e-mail exchanges, like a common goal of getting the news out and behind them."
The full story:http://gawker.com/5396209/the-spitzer-files-how-the-new-york-times-coddled-client-no-9
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:17am on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | Newspaper web sites are not holding on to ad dollars, despite the upturn in online advertising, Stephanie Clifford of the New York Times reported on October 25, 2009:
"Newspaper sites are the patent-leather stilettos of the online world: they get used for special occasions, but other shoes get much more daily wear. The beneficiaries of this behavior are networks and exchanges like Advertising.com from AOL and DoubleClick Ad Exchange from Google, which dominate the buying and selling of extra space."
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/business/media/26adco.html
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Evan Sayet
Los Angeles, CA | Posted at 9:39pm on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | Sadly, the New York Times has become a joke. It is a radical Leftist mouthpiece with an agenda of hurting America as its sole purpose.
Fortunately, it's going down the tubes as its spoiled inheritence millionaire great-great grandchild squanders what his betters have given him.
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:14pm on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 | William Safire died on September 27, 2009 at the age of 79. Robert D. McFadden of the New York Times wrote an obituary:
"William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury of articles on language, died at a hospice in Rockville, Md., on Sunday. He was 79.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Martin Tolchin, a friend of the family.
There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism it was simpler: There was his own unambiguous wit and wisdom on one hand and, on the other, the blubber of fools he called “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.”"
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/us/28safire.html
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:41pm on Thursday, September 24th, 2009 | The New York Times announced on September 15, 2009 that Jonathan Landman, deputy managing editor of the newspaper, has been named culture editor for the newspaper and NYTimes.com, reporting to executive editor Bill Keller.
He succeeds Sam Sifton, who was recently appointed restaurant critic. Mr. Landman was the acting culture editor from 2004 to 2005. In August 2005, he was appointed to oversee the integration of the print and Web newsrooms. He was instrumental in bringing about many of the resulting innovations.
In making the announcement, Mr. Keller said, “Jon brings to the culture department a strenuous intelligence, an inspiring vision, a gift for getting the very best from people and – no small thing as our competitive landscape shifts – a keen appreciation of what culture journalism can be on the Web.”
Mr. Landman, 56, previously had been metropolitan editor of The Times from 1999 until 2003, and editor of the Week in Review section since 1994. He was assistant managing editor for enterprise from 2003 to 2004. Before that, he served as deputy editor of the Washington bureau since 1992; assistant editor in Washington from 1991; assistant metropolitan editor from 1990, and assistant national editor from 1989.
Mr. Landman joined The Times as a copy editor in 1987.
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:18pm on Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | Ben Stein has been fired as a business columnist for the New York Times for being a pitchman for a credit score web site, Gawker reported on August 6, 2009:
"Ben Stein's TV ads for a scuzzy "free" credit product have finally caught up to him: The New York Times has fired Stein as a Sunday business columnist for violating ethics guidelines.
Stein was pilloried online for his endorsement of the bait-and-switch operation, which offers a free credit score but charges an outrageous $30 per month to see the credit report behind the score. As Reuters blogger Felix Salmon pointed out, consumers can get a free online report under federal law."
The full story:
http://gawker.com/5331835/pitchman-ben-stein-gets-economist-ben-stein-fired-at-the-new-york-times
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:29pm on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 | Arthur Sulzberger and New York Times Company CEO Janet Robinson issued a statement about the company's debt on July 15, 2009:
"To Our Colleagues,
As many of you read, yesterday we announced the sale of WQXR, “The Radio Station of The New York Times.” This is another step in the realignment of our portfolio of properties and our initiative to reduce our debt.
Over the past six months or so, one question that we have heard time and time again from employees and others is: “What is the state of the Company’s debt?” Given that and the news about WQXR, we thought it would be worthwhile to discuss it with you today.
The Company carries approximately $1 billion in debt but of that amount only about $45 million matures before 2011, and we expect to repay that in November with cash flow from operations and our revolving credit agreement. The majority of our debt isn’t due until more than five years from now – in 2015. As a recent article in AdAge asked, “But can it [the Times Company] last through 2011? As it turns out, we think the answer is yes, and then some.”
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:17pm on Friday, July 10th, 2009 | Time magazine had "10 Questions for Bill Keller," the executive editor of the New York Times. Keller said of the newspaper's coverage of the run-up to the Iraq war:
"It was partly the insatiable desire for scoops people in the Administration were feeding about the potential threat in Iraq," said Keller of The New York Times' coverage ahead of the Iraq War. "But a lot of it was just that we floated along with the conventional wisdom, the worst enemy of journalism."
The full story:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1909597,00.html
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:38am on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | In an interesting profile of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim from the June 1, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, Lawrence Wright asked "El Ingeniero" about his investment of $250 million in the New York Times in late 2008:
"I asked Slim why he had invested in the Times. "We think it's the best newspaper," he said. "The best brand... We believe in media content. We think paper will disappear, but not the content. The content will be more important." I asked him if he read the Times. "Only when I'm in the U.S.," he admitted.
The full profile:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_wright
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 5:12pm on Thursday, June 4th, 2009 | John M. Geddes, managing editor of the New York Times, was asked about the relationship between journalists and public relations reps on May 31, 2009 in the newspaper's "Talk to the Newsroom" feature:
"For decades, journalists and public relations reps have always seemed to regard each other as necessary evils. To journalists, P.R. people push stories that aren’t stories and prevent them from getting unfettered access to the principals involved in a story. To P.R. people, journalists too often summarily reject legitimate ideas and are too ready to block them from getting their legitimate messages out to the public. And yet … the best of each group need one another, and successfully form good mutual relationships.
At their core, those roles remain the same, but on the periphery there’s change aplenty.
Stephanie Strom, one of our reporters, says that technology has had an impact. “The ability to reach us in a variety of ways, i.e. via e-mail, phone, mobile devices, Twitter, Facebook, etc., means that the number of P.R. people I have to deal with has increased geometrically,” she says.
Steve Lohr, another of our reporters, notes that the creation of our own blogs has resulted in an increased flow of story pitches: “They know the hurdle is lower than for a fully reported piece for the paper, and they follow the blogs closely.”
And Stephanie says things haven’t gotten easier for P.R. people, either. She said she’s been told that the explosion of ways to reach the public beyond the traditional media has taxed P.R. people who find themselves reaching out to bloggers, Web journalists and other newly founded organizations with varying and evolving pedigrees of professionalism.
So yes, there is Sturm und Drang out there, but it accents what remains unchanged. It is probably the one-on-one relationships that matter, and they take time to forge."
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