Category Archives: New York Times
Obama and Secrets
By Chris Daly As is becoming obvious, the Obama administration is developing a disappointment on the promises made by candidate Obama to run an open government. Instead of transparency, we are getting business as usual — or, in some areas, … Continue reading
Filed under First Amendment, history, Journalism, journalism history, leaks, New York Times, President Obama
Times Co. business
Worth noting: NYTimes publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is proposing to add his brother-in-law to the paper’s board of directors. That would be Steven B. Green, an investor. (And presumably, not the Steven B. Green who is the author of a … Continue reading
Filed under 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
