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'New York Times' gets a new politics editor: Carolyn Ryan
Ryan's big claim to fame is the Times' blockbuster revelation that Eliot Spitzer was involved in an F.B.I. investigation into a prostitution ring, a report that ended Spitzer's career as Governor of New York. Back then, in 2008, she was the metro political editor.
What's really wrong with the White House Correspondents' Dinner?
It is, really, an occasion for the people in all quarters of Washington, so often at cross-purposes, to ditch the pretense that they don't know each other and have nothing to gain from each other. It's Washington on carnival time, a release valve from the pressure of doing the work those watchers in Spokane that Brokaw is so worried about expect of the city's political and media elites. More
'New York Times' unloads free newspapers on digital subscribers, moves to No. 2 in circulation
The Times had a combined print and digital average weekday circulation of 1.87 million between October and March, up 17.6 percent from the same six-month period a year earlier, according to the latest figures from the Alliance for Audited Media. More
At the six-month mark, superstorm Sandy dominates the news cycle
Superstorm Sandy got a second wind in the news cycle today as the coastal areas devastated by the storm continue to grapple with recovery efforts six months after the historic event. "We can't forget about so many people still hurting," said Joe Scarborough this morning, standing with his "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, N.J. "Please remember, six months later, so many people still suffering after Sandy." More
First, the good news: 'Daily News' promotes two in digital
The promotions reflect the paper's increasing focus on web growth, which it's achieved this past year by tailoring its homepage to photo-heavy national news. But they also come during a period of relative anxiety in the newsroom. More
At the 'Times,' the future of blogs is uncertain: Some shuttered, some dormant, all under review
Asked about the status of Media Decoder, which had become a topic of interest among media wonks on Twitter these past few days, a Times spokesperson said the blog is "dormant, not dead." More
Times Company sees sale of 'Boston Globe' in second half of 2013
Toward the end of the call, an analyst asked if there were any plans to take the Times Company private. Thompson said "we're not considering" such a move. More
When straight-keeper in chief Jill Abramson gets the tabloid treatment
Has Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, "lost the newsroom"? More
(2)Is Jill Abramson 'draining morale' from 'The New York Times'?
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'Times' hires Jesse Wegman as editorial-board writer on law, Supreme Court
Wegman was most recently an editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Before that he was a legal-news editor at Reuters. And before that, he was managing editor at The New York Observer (where he hired me as a fact-checker way back in December 2007.) More
Jacob Bernstein makes it official at 'Times' Styles desk
Jacob Bernstein, who began moonlighting as a Styles freelancer a little over a year ago (as we first reported here), has been hired at the section full-time.
Bernstein, son of Washington Post legend Carl Bernstein and the late author and screenwriter Nora Ephron, has already managed a rather prolific corpus for both the Thursday and Sunday editions of Styles. More
(1)'NOT BAG MEN!' The 'Post' has yet more news for you about Boston bomber: He isn't on today's front page
As a teen who was singled out as a Boston bombing suspect on the cover of the New York Post tries to clear his name, the tabloid has changed the tenor of its coverage. More
Will this week's near-universal opprobrium stick to the 'New York Post'?
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'Daily News' doctored front-page photo from Boston bombing
"If you can’t stomach the gore, don’t run the photo. Period," wrote Charles Apple, the author of the blog post and an editor at the Orange County Register of Santa Ana, Calif. He also noted that Newark's Star-Ledger ran the same photo on page one exactly as it had been taken by the Globe photographer. More
(84)On the strange tenacity of the 'New York Post'
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