Meet Harry Siegel, New York's Newest Columnist
By Azi Paybarah | April 27, 2011 | 2:35 pm
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Pointless Is Pointless Is Pointless: David Orr Writes Useless Guide to Poetry’s Uselessness
By Michael Robbins | April 12, 2011 | 5:40 pm
No one reads poetry. If you are a poet or poetry critic (odds are, if you're one, you're the other) and are not thoroughly sick of this topic, there is probably something wrong with your brain that prevents you from experiencing boredom. You should give up poetry and become an astronaut. But now comes David Orr with his bright, chatty, superfluous Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry (Harper, 224 pages, $25.99). At... MORE >
NYT's Arthur Sulzberger and Janet Robinson Insist the Paywall Is Not a Paywall
By Sharon Elizabeth Samuel | April 6, 2011 | 9:26 am
Rather, it's an "online pricing plan," a "digital subscription plan." "It's not like the Times of London wall," said Sulzberger, noting the porousness and searchability of the new New York Times. Yet at last night's discussion at the Columbia Journalism School, entitled 'The Future of Media, Publishing and Paid Content', the audience just couldn't shake the silly habit of using the p-word. The conversation was moderated by Dean of Academic Affairs Bill Grueskin, who began... MORE >
Former 'GMA' Producer Shelley Ross Resurfaces, Reminds Us of Her Embarrassments
By Kat Stoeffel | April 4, 2011 | 12:50 pm
We hadn't heard of former Good Morning America executive producer Shelley Ross until yesterday, and she would probably prefer we never... MORE >
Where to Find the Voices in Rep. Peter King's District
By Azi Paybarah | March 11, 2011 | 2:05 pm
In search for local reaction to Rep. Peter King's hearing on Islam, radicalization and terrorism, a New York Times video team went to King's district in Nassau county. First stop, an Irish... MORE >
New York Times: Bloomberg's Plan Is 'Almost Unintelligibly Complex'
By Azi Paybarah | March 7, 2011 | 10:16 am
The New York Times editorial this morning has some harsh words for Mayor Bloomberg's plan to change teacher seniority rules, calling it "almost unintelligibly complex." Evidence of that is in their news pages, where a seemingly hard-working teacher is, based on the evaluation system, going to be shoved out the... MORE >
NYT Goes Gilt With Daily Deal Email, TimesLimited
By Ben Popper | March 2, 2011 | 7:24 am
What better way for old media properties like the NY Times to beef up their bottom line than to jump on the bandwagon of daily deal sites that have been heating up the tech sector. Market leader Groupon recently closed a massive funding round and New York's Gilt Groupe was just reported have hit that magic $1 billion... MORE >
Nate Silver's Heart Isn't in Oscar Predictions
By Daniel D'Addario | February 25, 2011 | 11:02 am
With the seeming success of the "Carpetbagger" blog, everyone at the New York Times seems to be getting into the Oscar-coverage game: Manohla Dargis and A. O.... MORE >
Music Exec on His Anti-Grammy Times Ad: 'Wait, Where's Vince McMahon?'
By Daniel D'Addario | February 21, 2011 | 12:05 pm
The Grammys—and the subsquent flood of questions like "Who Is Arcade Fire?" and "Who Is Esperanza Spalding?"—may be a distant memory at this point, but Steve Stoute, a former music executive based in New York, and now an advertising executive with Translation, hasn't forgotten. On Sunday, he placed an open letter to the Grammys' organizing body, NARAS, in a full-page New York Times ad.... MORE >
Book Review Gets With the Times, Kindles Interest in E-Book Sales
By Daniel D'Addario | February 11, 2011 | 5:19 pm
ArtsBeat announced today that this week's New York Times Book Review will feature, for the first time, bestseller lists accounting for the sales of e-books.... MORE >
Will Bill Keller's Multi-Platform Approach Pay Off?
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke and Ben Popper | January 28, 2011 | 2:07 pm
It’s an article, it’s a Nook! It's Bill Keller's Wikileaks piece available online, in print and for download. The 8,000 word opus went online on Wednesday, will appear in the NYT Magazine on Sunday and, for $5.99, can be read on the Nook as “Open Secret: Wikileaks, War and American... MORE >
Rational Actors: Freakonomics Blog To Leave New York Times
By Kat Stoeffel | January 14, 2011 | 2:32 pm
Demand is high for inflammatory thought experiments! The New York Times' Freakonomics blog, penned by Freakonomics authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, among others, will spin off into its own site, Freakonomics.com, run by the Freakonomics documentary's producer Chad Troutwine, reports Jeff... MORE >
Inside the Media Hiring Bubble
By Nick Summers | January 4, 2011 | 8:29 pm
"I didn't feel like I was being interviewed for a job," said the AP's Ron Fournier, about the lunch that would lead to his becoming the next editor of National Journal. "It was not a job interview," said The New Republic's Michelle Cottle, about meeting Tina Brown for coffee before agreeing to go to work for her at... MORE >
New Thing to Be Terrified Of: iPhones In Prisons
By Adrianne Jeffries | January 3, 2011 | 4:34 pm
Smartphones are getting inside prisons, and the things prisoners are using them for are a lot worse than Facebook and FarmVille. Prisoners are going on Facebook, playing FarmVille and tweeting using pseudonyms. The gangleader of the New York Bloods just got thrown into solitary confinement for self-promoting on YouTube, MySpace and... MORE >
