Former New York Times editor Bill Keller has spent the past year pursuing a weird personal crusade against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He continues, weirdly, and to the detriment of his own reputation. Likewise, we shall continue our crusade agains

Bill Keller, the former executive editor of The New York Times who partnered with Jullan Assange on several major WikiLeaks releases, has written another anti-Assange column for today’s Times. The two men have been feuding for about 18 months now--going

Jeffrey Kluger in Time on the 50-year anniversary of John Glenn's historic Mercury flight Five decades ago this month, Glenn ushered in a new era of space exploration with his orbital flight. "The Mercury astronauts never much cared for the term space ca

Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has a column in today's edition of the paper he used to edit arguing that the much-ballyhooed spill of U.S. military and diplomatic secrets to Wikileaks has not ushered in a new era of transparency, as s

February 17, 2012, 10:49 pm By THE NEW YORK TIMES As part of a tribute to Anthony Shadid , who died on Thursday while working in Syria, New York Times video producers have compiled his dispatches since 2010, which include reporting from Baghdad, Cairo, T

Some of Shadid's friends and colleagues, meanwhile, have started coming together in person to remember the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a fearless foreign correspondent whose willingness to risk life and limb reporting from the darkest corners of t

“I wanted to get back on the plane and leave,” said Filkins. “I didn’t even know where the village was.” Shadid died on Thursday after he suffered an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. Time’s Bobby Ghosh called him “the best of the breed.” The W

NEW YORK — Five years ago, The New York Times had a real business on its hands when it badly needed one. T: The New York Times Style Magazine had become a powerhouse. It had just over 1,600 ad pages, and brought in more than $45 million in revenue. It wa

“After talking with Nocera,” wrote Carly Carioli, in the second of his contentious anti-New York Times copyright screeds, “I’m committed to getting the Clark Booth piece back online in some form.” For readers who might have missed this—you’re lucky if yo

In a recent follow-up post to his column on PIPA/SOPA, Bill Keller, former executive editor of The New York Times, provided a response to his column's detractors. In the first paragraph, Keller writes, "Much of the mail bristles with resentment of the co

In all the conversation about BuzzFeed, two questions and answers get repeated over and over again. But I don't think the answers have been quite right—for a mixture of reasons, probably. Founder Jonah Peretti and editor Ben Smith, as any reporter who ha

Do as I say, don’t do as I do. Keller writes that since the paper the article came from was long defunct without digital archives, he assumes the author of the article felt reposting the article “seemed a logical way to let today’s readers see Booth’s wo

A couple of days ago, in this space, I pointed readers to a blog post by my Boston Phoenix colleague Carly Carioli calling out New York Times executive editor-turned-columnist Bill Keller for his hard line on copyright violations - and noting that the Ti

As I said, if the Times does it then it's ok. And, no, Bill Keller, the law isn't what you want it to be the law is what it is. Definitely a Nobel Peace Prize in Missing the Point nominee here. It is

A few days after we highlighted a spat between a Boston Phoenix writer and The New York Times columnist Bill Keller, Keller is fighting back with a new blog post. On Wednesday, Carly Carioli wrote a long item criticizing The Times for uploading an otherw

Bill Keller: I heard you like copyright. You wrote one provocative print column about it on Sunday, one blistering blog followup on Monday, and pointed to a third Times op-ed piece from Sunday (headline: "Perpetual War: Digital Pirates amd Creators") tha

Pfc. Bradley Manning will stand trial on 22 counts and could be imprisoned for life if convicted of the charge of aiding the enemy, for allegedly giving more than 700,000 secret US documents and classified combat video to the anti-secrecy website WikiLea

The Boston Phoenix has a long blog post out Wednesday calling out The New York Times for uploading work owned by the paper on the same day columnist Bill Keller advocated for stronger SOPA-like enforcement of copyright laws. In the post, Carly Carioli po

The day before ex-Times editor and current Times thumbsucker Bill Keller blasted people who reprint Times content without its permission, the Times reprinted a PDF of a Real Paper story without permission from its current copyright owner, our very own Bo