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

Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

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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Friedman and Andrews Play the Clueless Defense

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Thomas Friedman, The New Yorker, Clark Hoyt, True/Slant, Lawrence Wright, New York Times, Edmund Andrews, Carlos Slim, Media, Felix Salmon, Michael Roston, Journalism, Media News
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 06.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Public Editor Clark Hoyt, Edmund Andrews Public Editor, Clark Hoyt, Edmund Andrews, Thomas Friedman Speaking Fee, Dowd Plagiarism, Public Editor Dowd, Public Editor Friedman, Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, Media News

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 05.28.2009 | Media

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 04.29.2009 | Media

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 01.02.2009 | Media

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 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: New York Times Election Coverage, New York Times, Clark Hoyt, Public Editor, Media News

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 10.22.2008 | Media

Read More: New York Times, New York Times Sarah Palin, Clark Hoyt, Public Editor, Sarah Palin, Media News

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 07.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Clark Hoyt, Maureen Dowd Public Editor, Maureen Dowd, Public Editor, Gail Collins Maureen Dowd, Gail Collins, Media News

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 04.08.2008 | Media

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, 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 04.01.2008 | Media

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 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Bill Kristol NYT, Clark Hoyt, Bill Kristol Clark Hoyt, Bill Kristol, Bill Kristol New York Times, Media News

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 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Deborah Solomon, New York Times, Clark Hoyt, Questions For, Media News

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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Moveon.org To Pay Full Rate For Controversial NYT Ad

Editor & Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Clark Hoyt, Petraeus Moveon Ad, MoveOn.Org, David Petraeus, New York Times, Media News

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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