Bonfire of the Inanities
A history of the New York Times Styles section.
A history of the New York Times Styles section.
Jacqui Shine The Awl Nov 2014 45min Permalink
“We need your help,” she said.
Juliet Macur New York Times Mar 2018 10min Permalink
Life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror.
James Risen The Intercept Jan 2018 1h5min Permalink
Forty-seven years later, two daughters meet.
John Eligon New York Times Dec 2017 10min Permalink
They’re friends who once vied for the same jobs. Now, as editors of The New York Times and The Washington Post, they’re locked in a daily battle for Trump scoops.
Joe Pompeo Politico Jun 2017 35min Permalink
A profile of the New York Times White House correspondent.
Rachael Combe Elle May 2017 20min Permalink
“There wasn’t anything normal about this.”
Matt Apuzzo, Michael S. Schmidt, Adam Goldman, Eric Lichtblau New York Times Apr 2017 30min Permalink
How New York Times is clawing its way into the future:
The main goal is... to transform the Times’ digital subscriptions into the main engine of a billion-dollar business, one that could pay to put reporters on the ground in 174 countries even if (OK, when) the printing presses stop forever. To hit that mark, the Times is embarking on an ambitious plan inspired by the strategies of Netflix, Spotify, and HBO: invest heavily in a core offering... while continuously adding new online services and features... so that a subscription becomes indispensable to the lives of its existing subscribers and more attractive to future ones.
Gabriel Snyder Wired Feb 2017 20min Permalink
How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants.
Ian Parker New Yorker Sep 2016 35min Permalink
An attempt to figure out how the Times columnist came to care more about personal morality than politics.
Danny Funt Columbia Journalism Review Oct 2015 20min Permalink
A profile of New York Times obituary writer Alden Whitman.
Gay Talese Esquire Feb 1966 20min Permalink
The three men vying to be the next publisher of the New York Times.
Gabriel Sherman New York Aug 2015 20min Permalink
A profile of Jill Abramson from her first weeks as executive editor of The New York Times.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Oct 2011 45min Permalink
James Reston’s problematic proximity to the powerful.
Stephen Chapman New Republic Apr 1980 15min Permalink
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s intimate coverage of Wall Street.
Alex Pareene The Baffler Feb 2014 20min Permalink
Lunch with recycling tycoon Chen Guangbiao, the self-described “Most Influential Person of China,” to discuss his interest in buying The New York Times.
Jessica Pressler New York Jan 2014 10min Permalink
At one time, a whole generation of New York Times reporters wished they could write like McCandlish Phillips. Then he left them all for God.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Jan 1997 20min Permalink
A profile of New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson.
How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times.
Renata Adler Harper's Aug 2000 45min Permalink
The paper reports on a battle of its own.
Nicole Perlroth New York Times Jan 2013 10min Permalink
His book panned in the New York Times after being misread by the critic, an author responds.
Patrick Somerville Salon Jul 2012 10min Permalink
On the ouster of CEO Janet Robinson and the company’s financial woes.
Tom Wicker was without a notebook on November 22, 1963. Instead, reported Gay Talese, he “scribbled his observations and facts across the back of a mimeographed itinerary of Kennedy’s two-day tour of Texas.”
Here’s the 3,700-word masterpiece he filed.
Tom Wicker New York Times Nov 1963 15min Permalink
Inside the complicated world of running The New York Times.
On the cloak and dagger dealings between The New York Times and WikiLeaks. Adapted from Executive Editor Bill Keller’s forthcoming ebook, Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy: Complete and Updated Coverage from The New York Times.
Bill Keller New York Times Jan 2011 Permalink