A documentary filmmaker has taken up residence at the NYT to make a movie based around the paper’s media desk, documenting the journos’ depressing task of reporting on newspaper layoffs and closures, day-in, day-out.
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Andrew Ross-Sorkin: the journalist king of Wall Street
Andrew Ross-Sorkin has built a business journalism empire around his New York Times column, but many of his colleagues think his reputation is undeserved. New York Magazine meets the man behind the column inches.
Headlines first, research second: how the news really gets written
How do newspapers write those “latest trend” features they’re so fond of? Gawker provides an insight straight from the NYT: devise the “trend” yourself, then find some subjects who fit the mold.
Why Murdoch wants to destroy the NY Times
News Corp’s Wall Street Journal is stepping-up its New York coverage, and it’s all part of Rupert Murdoch’s single-minded plan to strike a massive blow against the liberal world by buying-out or destroying the NYT, says Michael Wolff.
New York Times: Australia fears boat people from Asia
How does the world view Australians following to our treatment of refugees? Here’s the New York Times’s take: “Australia Puts Its Refugee Problem on a Remote Island, Behind Razor Wire”. Super.
NYT publisher: Why print media is like the Titanic
When the publisher of one of the world’s most esteemed newspapers compares print media to the Titanic, it’s time to panic. So why is the industry like the ship? Because even if the Titanic had docked safely, it was still doomed: 12 years earlier, the airplane was invented. Ouch.
Ethics on holiday for NYT and Newsweek writers’ Jamaica junket
Writers from the NY Times and Newsweek have been caught out skirting their companies’ ethics policies on an all-expenses-paid “swag orgy” junket to Jamaica , courtesy of Thrillist.
NY Times to cut 100 newsroom jobs
The NYT has announced it will cut 100 jobs from its newsroom. Read the rather poetic memo to staff from Times Executive Editor Bill Keller: “I yearn for the day when we can do our jobs without looking over our shoulders for economic thunderstorms.”
NYT reporter tells: Seven months as a Taliban prisoner
NYT reporter David Rohde spent seven months as a prisoner of the Taliban in Afghanistan before making a daring escape in June. In a six-part series, he tells the entire story.
America and Israel take a leak on Russia and Iran 
The untold, bloody story of the Western media
When foreign journos are captured in war torn countries, it makes the international headlines. But it’s the ‘fixers’ — local journalists, translators and experts — who help the foreign journos, that are far more likely to be killed.
Video of the Day: Getting tanked at The New York Times
Former NYT journo Gay Talese recalls the alcohol-fuelled newsrooms of yore, which he claims made the characters on Mad Men look like amateurs. But did a diet of booze and smokes really make for more creative writers?
Vale William Safire, champion of good grammar
Former New York Times journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner and Nixon speechwriter, William Safire, has died of cancer, age 79. The Times remembers his biting wit, cunning wordsmithery and passion for correct punctuation.
Investigative journalism is the right medicine for an ailing media
An expose by NYT journalist Duff Wilson exposing some very unhealthy links between Harvard Medical School and Big Pharma and its subsequent attempts to silence critics demonstrates the critical need for good investigative reporting.
Private Dick hired to sleuth Kennedy memoir leak
Book publisher Hachette has hired a private detective to investigate how The New York Times got a hold of Ted Kennedy’s memoirs — apparently just by going down to the local bookstore — 11 days before it was supposed to hit shelves.
Bloody battle in Afghanistan to free NYT journo
A New York Times reporter being held captive by militants in Afghanistan has been freed in a daring raid by British commandos. But his freedom comes at a heavy cost: the life of his Afghan interpreter and two others, who were killed in the crossfire.
Four days as a Taliban prisoner: freed journo’s tale
Stephen Farrell, the NYT journalist recently freed from imprisonment by the Taliban, in a raid by British forces that left one of his colleagues and several others dead, gives his personal account of the ordeal.
Why is the NYT such a dangerous place to work?
Recently rescued New York Times reporter James Farrell is the at least the fifth journo from the paper to be kidnapped or arrested in as many years. Is the Times doing enough to protect its intrepid investigators?
The tragic price of a free press
The death of captured Afghani reporter Sultan Munadi in a military raid that rescued his British colleague, highlights the high price overseas journalists often pay to give Western readers access to detailed and accurate news stories.
Family feud: why the Post may outlive the Times
Both of America’s premier mastheads, the New York Times and Washington Post are suffering in the media downturn. But the Post has one advantage that may see it weather the storm better, says Michael Wolff: likeable owners.
NYT and WSJ head for San Francisco
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are sticking some flowers in their hair and heading for San Francisco, where both papers are planning to launch local editions to capitalise on the city’s ailing newspaper industry.
Collaboration: is it the future of investigative journalism?
On Sunday, The New York Times published a gripping 13,000 word investigative article on Hurricane Katrina. With a value of $US400,000 could it have been written without the help of not-for-profits?
Getting more buck for your byline
The New York Times has found a new revenue stream: putting its big-name journos to work teaching online university classes. For a few hundred bucks, budding hacks can take a wine class from Eric Asimov, or learn about third world exploitation from Nicholas Kristof.
From news to booze: The NYT bottle-o
The New York Times is joining the WSJ and Forbes in the booze trade, launching its own wine club. A perfect match for the paper’s toffy readership, or just opening itself up to more “chardonnay left” jokes?
