Charlie Rose with Lee Silver; Arthur Caplan & Sam Brownback; Evan Thomas; Bill Keller (November 26, 2001)
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Early last month, when Times executive editor Bill Keller hosted a “Throw Stuff at Bill” chat soon after announcing 100 newsroom job cuts, he assured staffers that executives would be proceeding carefully. “What you can do with less, is less,” said Mr. Keller. “But if you are smart and careful, you can limit the harm.” In the coming weeks,...
The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The New York Times ' Washington bureau keeps shrinking. Politico 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. Of late, Mr. Labaton has been covering Congress' efforts to deal with the financial crisis, and Mr. Lewis has written about a few different...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 1) It's still so very true that nothing exists until the New York Times declares it. (And Bill Keller acknowledging the paper's "old news" on Jon Stewart didn't count because it was infotainment.) 2) New York has finally conceded what has been obvious to regional media for some time: That its glorious and impervious reign of self-importance has been ripped to shreds like a discarded...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... other writing opportunities," according to Calderone. The Times ' executive editor Bill Keller announced last month that the paper needed to layoff 100 newsroom staffers and was seeking voluntary buyouts as the first phase of the job cuts. Employees were given 45 days to decide on the buyout offers, and we're expecting more names of takers to start rolling in soon. Know anything?...
Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
New York Times editor Bill Keller speculated that the Green Revolution in Iran would cement the position of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Others saw another confrontation in which the clerical party had triumphed over reformers. Both of these analyses now seem wide of the mark. The latest developments in Iran provide more evidence that a steadily emerging military dictatorship is supplanting...
Stayin' Alive (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
As is common on these special occasions, I now depart for a primitive realm, isolated from the All Knowing Web. For the next three days, my knowledge of the outside world will be limited to what I can discern from the marks Bill Keller allows to be made on sheets of mashed up wood. I will be unable to experience DemFromCt's 645th consecutive post on the swine flu apocalypse and the post-civilization...
