Clark Hoyt

The New York Times Respondeth

Sandy Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sandy Rosenthal

These media successes are important because the American people need to understand that the flooding of metro New Orleans was overwhelmingly and primarily a federal responsibility.

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Ex-NYT Public Editor To Bloomberg

Future of Capitalism | Posted 05.25.2011

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Clark Hoyt, who recently completed a three year stint as "public editor"/ombudsman of the New York Times, is going to work for Bloomberg News in Washi...

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NYT Public Editor Signs Off: I Felt Like 'Internal Affairs Cop'

New York Times | CLARK HOYT | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the past three years, my assignment has been to try to help this newspaper live up to its own high journalistic standards as it covered a historic...

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Public Editor Clark Hoyt: NYT 'Misusing Anonymous Sources'

New York Times | CLARK HOYT | Posted 05.25.2011

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THE Times continues to hurt itself with readers by misusing anonymous sources....

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Jason Linkins

Krugman/Sorkin Feud: Clark Hoyt Weighs In

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clark Hoyt, Wonk Fights, Aaron Ross Sorkin, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Financial Crisis, Eat the Press, Media News

Andrew Rosenthal, who oversees the Times's op-ed page, backed Krugman, and Bill Keller, the Times's executive editor, said that if Sorkin erred, "he - and we - should correct it, of course."

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The NY Times: Those Who Live in Glass Houses...

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adrian Schoolcraft, Public Editor, Al Vann, Paul Browne, Clark Hoyt, Ray Kelly, Thomas Eagleton, Nypd, New York Times, New York City Council, Corey Kilgannon, Faisal Shahzad, George Mcgovern, New York News
Len Levitt

It's not easy being a reporter for the Times. Besides the layers of assignment, desk and copy editors, reporters have to contend with a professional second guesser, known as the Public Editor.

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The F Word: The Times' Bias Killed ACORN

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The F Word, Reporting, The New York Times, Clark Hoyt, F Word, Acorn, Laura Flanders, Code Pink, Grittv, Yes Men, Media, Grit Tv, News, Media News
Laura Flanders

The contemplation-of-a-correction story is less about bad reporting than bias. The Times seems to have considered ACORN guilty from the start.

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Why ACORN Fell: The Times, Lies, and Videotape

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clark Hoyt, Ethics in Journalism, Acorn, Darrell Issa, New York Times, Journalistic Ethics, Community Organizing, Acorn Scandal, Media News
Peter Dreier

The mainstream media, including the New York Times, played a pivotal role in ACORN's demise through shoddy, opportunistic journalism. But all have refused to acknowledge their role.

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Paterson Aide Calls For Inquiry Into New York Times

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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ALBANY, N.Y. (Associated Press) - Gov. David Paterson's chief of staff is seeking an internal inquiry into how The New York Times' reporting of a stor...

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The New York Times' coverage of Israel-Palestine was Biased Before Bureau Chief's Son Joined the IDF

Lysandra Ohrstrom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Clark Hoyt, Goldstone Report, Gaza, Ethan Bronner, Israeli War Crimes, The New York Times, Bill Keller, Hamas, World News
Lysandra Ohrstrom

This week the editors of The New York Times's sprang to the defense of Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner following weeks of controversy over his so...

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New York Times Re-runs Retracted Story on Guantanamo Detainees' "Return to Terror"

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo, New York Times, Elisabeth Bumiller, Clark Hoyt, Dean Baquet, War on Terror, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Media News
Shayana Kadidal

Nine months ago, the New York Times published an absurd story claiming that 1 in 7 Guantanamo detainees had "returned" to terrorism. Amazingly, the paper has rerun essentially the same story.

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With The New York Times Now Monitoring, Right-Wing Media Goes Bonkers

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Redstate, Clark Hoyt, Bill Keler, Erick Erickson, New York Times, Jawa Report, Jill Abramson, Michelle Malkin, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Like a proud peacock showing off its feathers, the right-wing media was in full bloom, showing the Times all the tricks that have made the movement's trade so renowned.

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Reading the Pictures: Obama the Double Agent?

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teabaggers, Underwear Bomber, Clark Hoyt, Obama Abdulmutallab, Terrorism, Obama Wimp, Obama Detroit Bomber, Crotch Bomber, Obama Jimmy Carter, Obama, Obama Terrorist, Robert Grenier, Ruth Gwily, Obama Teabaggers, Corporate Media, Obama Foreign Policy Magazine, Obama Weakling, Jimmy Carter, NYT Opinion Section, Umar Abdulmutallab, Obama Cream Puff, Detroit Bomber, Obama Terrorism, Media News
Michael Shaw

2010-01-11-doubleagentobama.jpgWhat's to be done about the growing terrorism hysteria spreading through Washington and the corporate media?

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Friedman and Andrews Play the Clueless Defense

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yvette Kantrow

"I just wasn't paying attention." "It never even occurred to me to mention it." What do these two statements have in common? They were both uttered ...

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NYT Public Editor Slaps Friedman, Dowd, Andrews

New York Times | CLARK HOYT | Posted 05.25.2011

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IT has been a busy week or two for the ethics police -- those within The Times trying to protect the paper's integrity, and those outside, ready to po...

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Journalism versus the Zombies

Paul Dailing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clark Hoyt, Old Media vs. New Media, Twitter, Zombies, Social Networking, Click and Clack, Nina Totenberg, Lou Dobbs, Media, Facebook, Journalism, Blogs, Sarah Lacy, Npr, Vlogs, Car Talk, Cnn, Jeff Jarvis, Ira Glass, New Media, Fox News, Sam Zell, Media News
Paul Dailing

The dead rising from their graves to consume the living and overrun the earth, like so many other new trend stories, first broke on Twitter. In its e...

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The Incestuous Merkins Produce Ethically Murky Doings at the New York Times

Roger Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Cuomo, Clark Hoyt, J. Ezra Merkin, The New York Times, Andrew Rosenthal, Bernard Madoff, Daphne Merkin, Yeshiva University, Week in Review, Media News
Roger Smith

The Times thought it fitting to allow the sister of Erza Merkin who steered $2.4 billion to Madoff to be prominently featured, and allowed her to get away with the barest sort of disclosure.

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All the News That's Fit to Neuter

Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gretchen Morgenson, Newspapers, Clark Hoyt, Opinion Writing, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Media News
Marty Kaplan

It's New York Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt's recent distinction between "straight news" and "personal opinion" that I think captures the reason that journalism is on the skids.

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Public Editor: Just 10% Of New York Times Election Stories Policy-Releated

New York Times | Clark Hoyt | Posted 05.25.2011

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THE CAUCUS, the politics blog of The New York Times, convened a virtual roundtable of voters last Tuesday to discuss what they hoped to hear in the pr...

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NYT Public Editor: Palin Cronyism Article "Never Made The Connection Between Style And Results"

New York Times | Clark Hoyt | Posted 05.25.2011

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The next morning, The Times took a look at Palin's political style as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and as governor. The article was a largely negative po...

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Gail Collins Defends Maureen Dowd Against Public Editor's Accusations

New York Times | Gail Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a Times columnist, I never envisioned myself writing a letter to a fellow resident of the paper's opinion section. But I feel compelled to respond...

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In Praise of Ombudspeople

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lindsay Lohan New York Magazine, Newspaper Ombudspeople, Clark Hoyt, Daniel Okrent, Why "Ombudspeople" Is a Fun Word, Media Wonkery, New York Times John McCain Story, Lindsay Lohan Topless, Vicki Iseman, Lindsay Lohan Nude, Romenesko, John McCain Lobbyist Story, Newspaper Ombudsmen, Romenesko-Baiting, Ombudsman, Ombduspersons, Eat the Press, Media News

The mission of the ombudsperson is to watch the standards and performance of your publication, with an eye to keeping it scrupulously top-notch as a service to your readers. That's a service that shouldn't be outsourced for free to random people on the internet.

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Are Ombudsmen Necessary If We Have Bloggers?

AdAge | Simon Dumenco | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Editor, Barney Calame, Clark Hoyt, Byron Calame, Dan Okrent, Ombudsment, Media News

A colleague of mine recently said some complimentary things about Clark Hoyt, the so-called public editor (i.e., ombudsman) of The New York Times. Unl...

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NYT Public Editor: Hiring Kristol "A Mistake"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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When we broke the news that Bill Kristol would be joining the editorial pages of the New York TImes as a regular contributor, we called it "a move bou...

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NYT's Public Editor Says "Questions For" Writer Isn't Following Protocol

New York Times | Clark Hoyt | Posted 05.25.2011

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When you read Deborah Solomon's "Questions For" in The New York Times Magazine, it's like crashing an exclusive book party at Tina Brown's East Side g...

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