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Times' Washington Bureau Keeps Shrinking

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:29:33 GMT

The New York TimesPolitico reports that Stephen Labaton and Neil A. Lewis will each take a buyout offer--a month after Bill Keller met with the bureau, and a year after Linda Greenhouse and Steve Weisman left. Don't have an Observer.com account?
Source: New York Observer

Photo from Getty Images

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:16:20 GMT

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 24: Mustafa Haji Abdinur (R) speaks after accepting an award from Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, at the 2009 Annual International Press Freedom Awards Dinner hosted by the Committee to Protect Journalists at th...

Can Soldiers Be Victims of Terrorism?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:35:17 GMT

On Thursday in Washington, as my colleague David Johnston reports, several legislators declared at a Senate hearing that the murder of 12 soldiers and a retired guardsman at Fort Hood this month was “a terrorist attack.” Senator Joseph I. Lieberman,...
Source: The New York Times

Crazy Pete Hoekstra’s NSA Dirty Work and Nidal Hasan

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:38:33 GMT

It’s basically an email from Chris Donesa, a Republican HPSCI staffer, to a bunch of people at DNI, DOJ, and NSA who had been involved in the Protect America Act passage, followed by a letter Crazy Pete Hoekstra sent to NYT’s Bill Keller.
Source: Emptywheel

NYT to Launch 'Local' Edition in Chicago

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:47:10 GMT

The New York Times is launching its latest "local" edition in Chicago on Friday in conjunction with the Chicago News Cooperative. The Chicago area report will appear on Fridays and Sundays in the New York Times.
Source: MediaWeek

Quoted in 'Chicago News Cooperative Launches New York Times Report'

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:19:09 GMT

Bill Keller said in PR-Inside.com:

At a time when so many news organizations are in a forced retreat, it’s exciting to be part of a venture that has set out to build more and better news coverage ... Working with the Chicago News Cooperative will allow us to expand our coverage of Chicago with sophisticated reporting by local journalists with deep roots in the community.

Quoted in 'Condé Nast plans to bring Wired Magazine, 17 other publications to Apple’s rumored tablet'

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:33:21 GMT

said in MacDailyNews:

One possible exception is the New York Times, where editor Bill Keller refuses to talk about possible talks with Steve Jobs and company.

Conde Nast's Offering for Apple's Mystery Tablet: Wired Magazine [MediaMemo]

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:17:42 GMT

Here’s yet another content creator that’s convinced that Apple has a tablet device in the works: Conde Nast says it will have a digital version of Wired magazine ready for the rumored gadget by the middle of next year, and will eventually create...
Source: All Things Digital

Big surprise: Free press issues in Iraq

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:26:17 GMT

Bill Keller, editor of the New York Times, commented that "this ruling has to send a shiver up the spine of anyone who hopes for a genuinely democratic Iraq. What the court calls libel is, in most countries, called journalism.
Source: Editors Weblog

Guardian fined by Iraqi court in ruling seen as attack on press freedom

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:47:29 GMT

A photograph for the Guardian by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, whose report about allegations of Nouri al-Maliki's increasing authoritarianism led to the controversy There was widespread condemnation from around the world today of an Iraqi court ruling fining the...
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Manhattan Media Elite Bravely Stand Up to Private School Where All Their Kids Go [Fancy Things]

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:10:41 GMT

And there was the inevitable shop talk: As Times executive editor Bill Keller slid into a row of seats, an acquaintance asked, "So, are you parent of the year now at Dalton?"-a question that presumably referenced a story that ran on the front page that...
Source: Gawker

Photo from AP Photo

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:41:56 GMT

New York Times photographer Damon Winter, center, speaks to people in the newsroom of The New York Times accompanied by Executive Editor Bill Keller, right, in New York on Monday, April 20, 2009.

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