Category Archives: New York Times
Don’t miss
If you are on the BU campus this Wednesday, we are lucky to be hosting a visit by Carlotta Gall, who has covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for the New York Times for more than a decade. Forget the analysts. Forget … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, New York Times
Ernie Pyle: Everyman exalted
By Chris Daly Today’s NYTimes brings a dispatch from Dana, Indiana — a dateline that all journalism historians will recognize as the hometown of Ernie Pyle, one of the greatest war correspondents in American history. The piece is by Dan … Continue reading
Filed under history, Journalism, journalism history, New York Times
David Carr is right again
By Chris Daly In his column today, the New York Times media columnist does a brutal take-down of Craig Dubow, the value-destroying former head of the Gannett newspaper chain. (It gives me great pleasure to describe Gannett as a “chain,” … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, journalism history, New York Times, publishing, Tribune Co., Uncategorized
Not to be missed
The New Yorker has a terrific piece by Ken Auletta about the still-new executive editor at the New York Times, Jill Abramson. (Full disclosure dept: I have known Jill since we were college classmates; I like her; and I admire … Continue reading
Filed under Harvard, Journalism, New York Times, Uncategorized
Epic Red Sox Fold (vol. 5)
By Chris Daly Vanity. All is vanity. Amid the wreckage, a few useful nodes: –The great Nate Silver, master of mathematical metrics, is reduced on this day to invoking terms like “karma.” In his incomparable 538 blog for the … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, New York Times, Red Sox
Whither MSNBC?
New York Times television reporter Bill Carter has a good piece today on MSNBC — not least because he quoted me. [Fun fact: my quote includes an odd mistake. I sent him my quote by email. I meant to write … Continue reading
Filed under broadcasting, Journalism, media, MSNBC, New York Times, Olbermann, Politics
On photography in a disaster
I am posting the following essay by Tyler Hicks — an award-winning news photographer for the New York Times (and B.U. Journalism alum). It was sent by the Times via email, “exclusively to Times subscribers.” But I cannot imagine that … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, media, New York Times
Free Speech and its limits
By Chris Daly Here’s a story that nicely illustrates the limits of the First Amendment. Many people wrongly think that the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech (and of “the press”) in all settings, all the time. Not so. The … Continue reading
Filed under broadcasting, Fox News, Journalism, New York Times
Are Journalists Always Wrong?
That’s a question I raised in the following article, which was published today in a British academic journal called Journalism Practice. I am posting it here so you don’t have to pay $35 to read it. I had to reformat … Continue reading
Filed under history, Journalism, journalism history, New York Times, The New Yorker
NYTimes paywall
By Chris Daly As usual, it is worth reading what Dan Gillmor has to say — this time about the results to date of the New York Times‘ experiment with its paywall. Here’s his recent post from the Guardian. I … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, New York Times, publishing
