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Margaret Sullivan

Media Challenge Their Own

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 04.15.2013 | Religion
Sister Mary Ann Walsh

Perhaps the solution to the problem of the huge number of innocent lives snuffed out annually lies not just in legislation and letters to Congress. It may also lie in hard-hitting and unbiased reporting.

WATCH: NYT Ombud Talks About Paper's Biases

Posted 03.27.2013 | Media

Margaret Sullivan, the public editor of the New York Times, appeared on "Morning Joe" Friday to talk about the newspaper's supposed left-leaning biase...

Getting It First, Or Getting It Right?

www.nytimes.com | Posted 02.23.2013 | Media

THE media critic Jack Shafer wrote recently that, in the age of Twitter, the public had better get used to a new fact of life: News stories, especiall...

NY Times Criticized For Its Coverage Of Bradley Manning Trial

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 02.09.2013 | Media

The New York Times is continuing to receive criticism for its relative lack of coverage of the trial of alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning. T...

Fighting False Balance In The Media

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 12.05.2012 | Religion
Sister Mary Ann Walsh

Reports on Catholicism are especially vulnerable to false balance, and often it is achieved through manipulation of the name "Catholic" and religious symbols such as veils and Roman collars.

Michael Calderone

New York Times Announces New Quote Approval Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.20.2012 | Media

The New York Times announced Thursday that the paper would end the increasingly common journalistic practice of "quote approval," which allowed news s...

Everything That's Wrong With the 'Liberal Media,' in One Terrible Article

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 11.17.2012 | Media
Jonathan Weiler

A recent New York Times article, Ethan Bronner, has been subject to harsh criticism for practicing the worst kind of stenographic, he-said, she-said journalism. The facts are clear: studies have repeatedly shown that in-person voting fraud is virtually non-existent.

NYT Public Editor Presses Journalists, Editors On 'False Balance'

www.nytimes.com | Margaret Sullivan | Posted 11.16.2012 | Media

IN journalism, as in life, balance sounds like an unassailably good thing....

Advice for the New York Times's New Public Editor

Daniel R. Schwarz | Posted 09.19.2012 | Media
Daniel R. Schwarz

In accepting her position, Margaret Sullivan speaks of the need for transparency, but we also need a little more of a transgressive and disruptive public editor who sees larger patterns and is aware of the continuous compromises made to keep the Times afloat.

Michael Calderone

NYT Hires First Woman For Prestigious Role

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 07.16.2012 | Media

NEW YORK -- Buffalo News editor Margaret Sullivan, who was named Monday the next public editor at The New York Times, says journalism is at "a crossro...