The Boston Globe's Future Unclear As Sale Deadline Passes
Prospective buyers of The Boston Globe faced a Friday deadline for submitting firm bids, but it remained unclear what would happen next -- or even whe...
Prospective buyers of The Boston Globe faced a Friday deadline for submitting firm bids, but it remained unclear what would happen next -- or even whe...
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media
New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger and CEO Janet Robinson sent out a companywide memo Thursday morning pointing out that the paper is still pr...
Charles Warner | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media
People will act against their own best interests when they think they are being treated unfairly. They may go down, but they're going to take the greedy bastards down with them.
John Ridley | Posted 06.22.2009 | Media
The so-called "paper of record" has been, since its inception, insular and incestuous, and has remained so by design. Is there any news organization that would benefit more from new ownership?
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media
The people truly interested in the Times are limited to a smaller and smaller circle. And yet, for us, the Times is -- as well as a dying way of life -- an irresistible soap opera.
Dan Dubno | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media
Everyone who has predicted the demise of paper has so far been completely wrong. But that was before the advent of a fully-functional full-figured e-book reader.
Rob Fishman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media
Michael Wolff depends entirely on working journalists to make his case that newspapers suck. Wolff can't source a blog without the Times, but we're supposed to renounce the paper?
Charles Warner | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media
If Twain were writing today, he might have the publishing prince, Arthur ("Pinch") Sulzberger, in his plush Fifth Avenue apartment thinking it might be a good idea to know what the little folks are doing.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media
The Federal government hasn't seriously entertained the idea of bailing out the newspaper industry, but that doesn't mean they aren't aware of it. Esp...
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
At a time when New York Times managers are forcing all employees to take a five percent pay cut, and demanding even larger sacrifices from the NYT-own...
Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.10.2009 | Media
After the New York Times purchased it, The Globe's mission was narrowed, its vision constricted by year after year of buyouts and layoffs.
Michael Wolff | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media
Arthur Gregg Sulzberger's situation is achingly existential, caught as he is between cosseted past and harsh future, his career and reason for being hanging wholly hostage to the recession's depth.
Henry Blodget | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business
Barring a miraculous industry recovery, it does not appear that the Sulzbergers will follow the Chandlers, Bancrofts, and Grahams into the golden post-newspaper-owning sunset.
New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media
As Times metro reporters and editors made their way back to their Eighth Avenue offices after the holiday weekend, a little surprise greeted them in t...
Michael Wolff | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media
Here's one for you: If a newspaper writes about its own bleak financial predicament in an aggressively rosy light, is that securities fraud?
Greg Mitchell | Posted 01.26.2009 | Media
One year ago this weekend, the Huffington Post broke the news that, as Jim Morrison might have put it, the Kristol Ship was about to sail at the New York Times.
New York Magazine | Joe Hagan | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media
Dave Golden couldn't stay at the paper mill forever. It was too tied to the family business, too laden with expectations. So he set off to find himsel...
Philadelphia Inquirer | Troy Graham | Posted 09.30.2008 | Media
Donald Trump has won a victory in his legal battle against an author and New York Times reporter who had the temerity to label the mogul a mere millio...
New York Times | Posted 05.18.2008 | Media
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of The New York Times Company, and his wife, Gail Gregg, have decided to separate, they said in a statement issued Fri...
The New Republic | Gabriel Sherman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
On January 25, the New York Times endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton. At the time, the 1,100-word editorial stood out for both its tepidness and early a...
New York Post | Brian Garrity | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Harbinger Capital Partners is tightening its grip on the New York Times and Chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. The investment firm yesterday rais...
New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Last summer, when The New York Times announced that it had donated its archives to the New York Public Library, publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said i...
nytimes.com | RICHARD PEREZ-PENA | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media