Gail Collins Defends Maureen Dowd Against Public Editor's Accusations
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...
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...
Mark Kleiman | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media
I'm glad the NYT public editor called out the op-ed editor on their "Obama is a Muslim apostate" nonsense. But there's a deeper pathology here, one that extends well beyond the opinion pages.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.31.2008 | Media
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.
AdAge | Simon Dumenco | Posted 03.24.2008 | Media
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...
Jay Rosen | Posted 03.17.2008 | Home
Reporters with depth of knowledge are capable of challenging government and getting beyond he said, she said, a tepid style of truthtelling. Neutrality valorizes a loss of footing and self-respect.
Sean Carman | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
Kristol's argument on why Obama doesn't wear a flag pin ("Flag-gate!") is just so unbelievably, insidiously stupid: The man is a 50-year-old fifth grader.
Jay Rosen | Posted 02.25.2008 | Home
It's hard to see how editorial judgment at the Times could suffer a defeat in the court of opinion that is more clear cut.
Isabel Macdonald | Posted 02.15.2008 | Media
It's unclear why the Times would want more stringent rules for opinions expressed by occasional freelancers as opposed to staffers who write regularly.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.14.2008 | Media
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...
Craig Stoltz | Posted 11.20.2007 | Media
The New York Times policy regarding online reader comments reveals a very important way its current management is poorly prepared for the rising era of communication.
New York Times | Clark Hoyt | Posted 10.15.2007 | Media
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...
Editor & Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 09.24.2007 | Media
Clark Hoyt, public editor of The New York Times, took issue Sunday with the paper's recent decision to run a discounted ad from Moveon.org criticizing...
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New York Times | Gail Collins | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media