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Topic Archive: New York Times
"We are not going to discuss numbers or the details of the staff reduction, nor will we be releasing a list of names," says editor...
Posted May 7, 2008 09:24 AM
In addition to Jane Gross, who I mentioned last week, the veteran New York Times bylines said to be seeking buyouts include medical writer Lawrence...
Posted April 15, 2008 11:22 AM
This was new Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez's editorial cartoon today in today's Investor's Business Daily. He is based there and syndicated in 450 newspapers....
Posted April 7, 2008 11:19 PM
Dith Pran was the Cambodian journalist whose ordeal in the Khmer Rouge death regime was depicted in the 1984 film "The Killing Fields" and, earlier,...
Posted March 30, 2008 01:54 PM
An LA Observed reader emailed to alert me to the big news out of the Federal Reserve and to wonder why his hometown paper...
Posted March 16, 2008 09:12 PM
Along with the story on 22-year-old escort Ashley Dupre's life and some quotes from her beyond the MySpace page, today's New York Times also reconstructs...
Posted March 13, 2008 12:39 PM
Her years in Los Angeles taught Nancy Rommelmann, an ex-New Yorker, that no one is more provincial than New Yorkers. So she isn't surprised that...
Posted March 6, 2008 12:50 PM
The New York Times' former Hollywood reporter in the L.A. bureau resigned rather than take an assignment back in New York. She's been writing a...
Posted January 10, 2008 07:38 PM
Somebody at the New York Times bureau in Iraq apparently fell for the old password trick. Read the memo: Gang, The Baghdad Bureau e-mail address...
Posted December 10, 2007 12:43 PM
Columnists and other material that was behind the pay wall will be free as of Tuesday night. The New York Times is even opening up...
Posted September 17, 2007 05:57 PM
Los Angeles Times Editor Jim O'Shea didn't like reading a New York Times editorial suggest that the LAT has suffered "sharp reductions” in its national...
Posted August 3, 2007 03:14 PM
Sharon Waxman of the NYT bureau here continues to blog about her book research around the Mediterranean (with a stop for a swim on the...
Posted July 31, 2007 12:31 PM
Sharon Waxman is on leave from the Hollywood beat at the New York Times bureau on Wilshire to write a book about museums and the...
Posted July 13, 2007 11:51 AM
The pages get narrower by an inch-and-a-half on August 6. From the memo at the New York Observer's Media Mob: There are few design changes...
Posted June 19, 2007 03:45 PM
Gawker says that New York Times Hollywood writer Sharon Waxman will go on book leave this summer then be reassigned off the beat and probably...
Posted June 4, 2007 07:03 PM
Brooks Barnes is leaving the Wall Street Journal's television beat to cover the business of Hollywood in the New York Times bureau here. He is...
Posted May 30, 2007 05:16 PM
Kevin Sack was one of the New York Times veterans who came west to LAT territory in the Dean Baquet wagon train, and it was...
Posted May 13, 2007 10:39 PM
The New York Times has posted the first of a four-part video conversation between Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the paper's Calvin Sims, a former...
Posted April 2, 2007 11:21 AM
Hoping to reach out to affluent, influential and culturally with it Angelenos, the L.A. Philharmonic today flooded my Westside neighborhood with Hollywood Bowl promotional calendars...
Posted April 1, 2007 01:52 PM
The New York Times has created the new position of Deputy Culture Editor for Online Journalism and moved Ariel Kaminer over from Arts and Leisure...
Posted February 22, 2007 10:40 AM
A memo just sent around the New York Times newsroom by executive editor Bill Keller announces a new political editor and greater attention to covering...
Posted February 20, 2007 03:27 PM
National editor Suzanne Daley wishes the former L.A. staff correspondent well in a newsroom note posted at Romenesko: Charlie was part of the team that...
Posted February 14, 2007 12:33 PM
“It became clearer and clearer to me that The New York Times was the place where I belonged now,” ex-LAT editor Dean Baquet told the...
Posted January 31, 2007 10:17 AM
Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, was asked by Market Watch's Jon Friedman if ex-LAT editor Dean Baquet would be returning to...
Posted January 29, 2007 11:07 AM
L.A. Times editors are busily trying to come up with a new beat attractive enough to keep Business section rising star Claire Hoffman away from...
Posted January 25, 2007 02:05 AM
Mogul Kirk Kerkorian got briefings from his high-powered attorney on what P.I. Anthony Pellicano was learning from illegal wiretaps of Kerkorian's ex-wife in their child-custody...
Posted January 10, 2007 10:23 PM
Rebecca Dana, a 2004 graduate of Yale, has been covering television for the New York Observer. At the New York Times she will carve out...
Posted December 28, 2006 11:30 AM
Yesterday's New York Times offered some backhanded praise of Los Angeles architecture, with writer Robin Pogrebin taking the position that L.A. design is leaving the...
Posted December 26, 2006 04:55 PM
Alissa Rubin, who just last September was given the Paris bureau chief slot for the L.A. Times, succumbed to the lure of the New York...
Posted December 20, 2006 02:10 PM
A quartet of Hollywood old hands — Patrick Goldstein and John Horn of the LAT and Sharon Waxman and Laura Holson of the NYT —...
Posted December 13, 2006 12:35 AM
Gail Collins vacates to finish a sequel to her 2003 book America's Women, then will write an Op-Ed column. The new top editor for opinion...
Posted October 12, 2006 01:48 PM
Silman-James Press here is upset all over again with the New York Times for not allowing the title of its book, Chess Bitch: Women in...
Posted August 16, 2006 09:09 AM
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller this morning distributed a statement on the paper's publication of details about the CIA-Treasury Department program of tracing...
Posted June 26, 2006 10:07 PM
Los Angeles now has a media-anointed Yahoo parents group—introduced to the national spotlight in today's Sunday Styles section of the New York Times. Peachhead has...
Posted June 18, 2006 10:33 PM
Back in February, the New York Times ran a correction after a story by arts writer Carol Vogel placed the Los Angeles County Museum of...
Posted May 5, 2006 10:56 AM
OK, bear with me. Los Angeles billionaire Ron Burkle has been in the news a lot lately for 1) His divorce, 2) His interest in...
Posted April 20, 2006 12:21 AM
John Broder is returning to the Washington bureau of the New York Times, and will be replaced as Los Angeles bureau chief this summer by...
Posted February 17, 2006 10:47 AM
All these newspaper awards show site creators ought to get together before choosing their brand names. The New York Times' new online effort announced today...
Posted December 7, 2005 11:14 AM
Tuesday's Correction of the Day out of the New York Times (about the non-word trustiness) is riffed on during tonight's 8:30 pm re-airing of the...
Posted November 3, 2005 02:59 PM
If you go to the movies at CityWalk, Beverly Center or the Magic Johnson Theatres, you'll soon get some new entertainment for those nineteen minutes...
Posted November 1, 2005 12:20 PM
That weekend story on Watts in the NYT mentioned several nearby places where residents are moving. One of them, "Marina County," raised an eyebrow since...
Posted October 31, 2005 01:50 PM
When AFI Fest comes to Hollywood next month, the Times will host a day of interviews and panel discussions with prominent filmmakers, journalists and actor...
Posted October 25, 2005 03:58 PM
♦ The L.A. Times' Robin Abcarian compares Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' talent at "sucking up" to the archetypical insincerity of Eddie Haskell, the teenage brown-noser...
Posted October 21, 2005 12:46 AM
About the same time her first-person account of testifying in the the Valerie Plame affair appeared Saturday on the New York Times website, along with...
Posted October 16, 2005 02:14 PM
Big development in the high-stakes legal and public-image chess match over allegations of clergy sexual abuse and coverups by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los...
Posted October 12, 2005 02:15 AM
Happy Wednesday... ♦ DWP workers got the big raises they were demanding: up to 28% over five years. The Council voted 10-3 to go along. DN,...
Posted September 21, 2005 12:55 AM
On Sunday, Mireya Navarro filled in New York Times readers on the horsey life in L.A. Life is good for Rocket, the urban horse. He...
Posted September 6, 2005 02:58 AM
The New York Times' most gonzo Los Angeles correspondent hasn't had a byline in the paper since April 14, prompting colleagues, rivals and competitors to...
Posted August 24, 2005 05:13 PM
I could almost do a standing daily feature on the interesting story du jour about Los Angeles in the New York Times. (And maybe I...
Posted August 18, 2005 01:28 AM
Just to follow-up from this morning's item, which did get a good bit of traffic and a Gawker link, the Newspaper Guild in the New...
Posted July 5, 2005 09:49 PM
Journalists don't like to take tests, be told what to do or chat with PR folks on the phone. On two of those counts, reporters...
Posted July 5, 2005 02:16 AM
FishbowlLA turns sleuth and checks on the cred of a semi-anonymous trendy mentioned in last Thursday's New York Times Styles section. The trail leads, possibly,...
Posted June 21, 2005 12:40 PM
Randy Archibold, who used to be a reporter for the L.A. Times and the Daily News, is returning to town as a national correspondent for...
Posted June 8, 2005 10:04 AM
First, from the swirl of politics. Newsweek puts Antonio Villaraigosa on the cover of Monday's issue, using his landslide election as the peg for a...
Posted May 23, 2005 01:40 AM
NBC4's Ana Garcia did an investigative report tonight on sanitary conditions in L.A. gyms, complete with hidden cameras and an outside lab testing swabs collected...
Posted May 19, 2005 11:58 PM
Starting in September, a new service called TimesSelect will charge $49.95 a year for access to op-ed and certain other columnists, the New York Times...
Posted May 16, 2005 12:24 PM
Today's New York Times carries two pieces on our freeway shootings, a staff news story by Nick Madigan of the bureau and a more personal...
Posted May 3, 2005 12:08 AM
Today's New York Observer reports on the curious case of NYT metro reporter Alan Feuer, who admits being slipshod with facts in his new book...
Posted April 13, 2005 06:46 AM
In his Times column in Sunday Opinion, Michael Kinsley paid a nice compliment to the NYT op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd: [She] proceeded to reinvent the...
Posted March 20, 2005 11:09 PM
Let the Oscar speeches begin. Updated from time to time, newest at the bottom: Sharon Waxman: Jon Friedman at CBS Marketwatch participates in the Sharon...
Posted February 25, 2005 03:50 PM
The New York Observer phones up David Halbfinger for a chat about his new job sharing the Hollywood beat for the New York Times with...
Posted February 23, 2005 02:15 AM
Either the New York Times "House & Home" section has a long lead time, or Christopher Hawthorne hung on to his East Coast freelance gig...
Posted February 17, 2005 10:30 PM
The New York Times' former film critic is following the occasionally-beaten path—again—and going to work for Hollywood. Back in 1992, Mitchell took a post at...
Posted February 15, 2005 04:48 AM
The New York Times bureau had its "So long!" party for the departing Bernard Weinraub last night. Someone who was there said the cocktail soiree,...
Posted February 13, 2005 12:54 PM
The New York Times Hollywood correspondent fills in the blanks for The Forward. Some snippets: Waxman was born into an Orthodox family in the Cleveland...
Posted February 3, 2005 04:10 PM
You knew this was coming. The LA Weekly's Nikki Finke turns her Deadline Hollywood column this week to an examination of last Sunday's farewell piece...
Posted February 3, 2005 01:07 AM
In Sunday's New York Times, retiring L.A. bureau stalwart Bernard Weinraub pens a personal farewell to Hollywood and admits to his fallability. He was star-struck,...
Posted January 30, 2005 09:18 PM
In a New York Observer diary that begins with a riff on the Hollywood swag season that is upon us and ends with a personal...
Posted January 26, 2005 11:51 PM
Johnny Carson: No shortage of appreciations and retrospectives online and on the air for the late-night pioneer who died Sunday at home in Malibu (of...
Posted January 23, 2005 09:20 PM
Southern California subscribers to the New York Times did not get their papers today because the weather interfered with satellite transmission. The L.A. Business Journal...
Posted January 10, 2005 01:33 PM
A roundup of items in the news: Prostate cancer: Channel 7 weatherman Dallas Raines disclosed his disease on the air and underwent surgery today. The...
Posted January 3, 2005 10:06 PM
Updated through the weekend, newest at the bottom • Mayor Jim Hahn and councilman Bernard Parks both opened their 2005 campaign headquarters on Saturday. Hahn's (photo...
Posted December 12, 2004 01:29 AM
Former L.A. Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff finally shares his view of the Caltrans headquarters downtown with his New York Times readers. In a review...
Posted December 8, 2004 01:14 PM
GQ's Men of the Year issue includes a piece by former LAT reporter Jeffrey Gettleman—now at the New York Times—on what he saw covering the...
Posted November 15, 2004 11:33 AM
Nikki Finke reports on the LA Weekly website that the New York Times is moving ahead with plans to hire a second Hollywood reporter to...
Posted November 10, 2004 12:44 PM
William Grimes, the former New York Times restaurant critic, will focus on nonfiction books. He joins Janet Maslin and Michiko Kakutani as full-time reviewers....
Posted October 22, 2004 08:19 AM
Hollywood A-listers and assorted other liberals turned out at David Geffen's Beverly Hills manse last night to celebrate New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's visit...
Posted September 22, 2004 09:14 PM
The New York Times calls last Sunday's profile of Haim Saban the L.A. media mogul's "most extensive interview in years." In the piece, Andrew Ross...
Posted September 7, 2004 12:40 PM
Easterner-turned-Angeleno Ruth Shalit's wedding blurb in the lead spot in last Sunday's New York Times is attracting some blogospheric notice. Vanity Fair's James Wolcott writes,...
Posted September 7, 2004 10:58 AM
Manohla Dargis' first film review for the New York Times runs in today's paper. A.O. Scott takes Open Water; she reviews the L.A. movie. In...
Posted August 6, 2004 02:01 AM
The New York Times has snared another Los Angeles journalist, but this one's not from the Times. Howard Beck, who covered the Lakers for the...
Posted July 29, 2004 11:50 AM
Bernard Weinraub has told his editors and the L.A. bureau of the New York Times that he'll retire from the paper at the end of...
Posted July 26, 2004 02:40 PM
Sam Hall Kaplan — who probably lost his weekly commentary gig at KCRW for dissing Frank Gehry during the Disney Hall hoopla last year —...
Posted July 19, 2004 12:02 AM
In announcing the shift of New York Times reporter Ed Wyatt to cover the publishing beat, editors Jon Landman and Lorne Manly poke a little...
Posted July 12, 2004 03:53 PM
Today's free web story off the front page of the Wall Street Journal is on Daniel Okrent, the New York Times "public editor." His seven-month...
Posted July 12, 2004 03:29 PM
There are some details of Michael Cieply's wooing by the New York Times — including L.A. Times business editor Rick Wartzman advising his star writer-editor...
Posted July 8, 2004 12:54 AM
Jonathan Landman, the new cultural desk honcho at the New York Times, seems quite happy that he was able to hire Manohla Dargis away from...
Posted June 25, 2004 06:16 PM
Bruce Feirstein, writing in the New York Observer, imagines making over the front page of the New York Times. EDITOR’S NOTE: After a long and...
Posted June 9, 2004 10:55 AM
A note to readers in Sunday's Orange County Register from Gene Harbrecht, the paper's nation and world editor, announced that stories picked up from the...
Posted June 1, 2004 09:51 AM
In the New York Times on Sunday (according to the date on the website), Janelle Brown does L.A. trend story #376A: screenwriters who write in...
Posted May 15, 2004 01:13 AM
Elvis Mitchell never fit in at the New York Tmes, writes Carl Swanson in a New York magazine piece. The paper had to bring in...
Posted May 3, 2004 08:59 AM
The New York Times has been unfair to Mel Gibson and his hit film The Passion of the Christ, Variety editor Peter Bart (an ex-Timesman)...
Posted April 26, 2004 10:56 AM
Variety's Pamela McClintock reports that changes in the New York Times film-reviewing roster are expected to include Elvis Mitchell leaving the paper. He may already...
Posted April 23, 2004 11:06 AM
Santa Monica photog David Hume Kennerly, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1972 for Vietnam coverage and a contributing editor at Newsweek, is on the short...
Posted March 19, 2004 09:52 AM
Disgraced ex-journalist Jayson Blair has been on three Fox News Channel shows already to plug his book about the New York Times, and has interviews...
Posted March 16, 2004 02:56 AM
Romenesko has the memo from Bill Keller: Sam's list of accomplishments should probably be headed by his virtuoso 1997 biography of Whittaker Chambers, a finalist...
Posted March 10, 2004 09:57 AM
The Tuesday New York Times does indeed correct Sharon Waxman's Oscar story from Monday, both the error Hollywood was gabbing about and a couple of...
Posted March 1, 2004 11:13 PM
Los Angeles-based Hollywood reporter Sharon Waxman is featured today on the New York Times website, answering reader questions in the "Forums" section about the Oscars...
Posted February 26, 2004 04:21 PM
Cynthia Cotts in the Village Voice fact-checks Fox online gossip columnist Roger Friedman's feud with New York Times Hollywood reporter Sharon Waxman and comes down...
Posted February 24, 2004 09:58 AM
New York Times editor Bill Keller notified the staff today that disgraced reporter Jayson Blair's new book will be ignored by the paper. He also...
Posted February 23, 2004 03:15 PM
The Portland Oregonian's reviewer likes Charlie LeDuff's collection of New York Times pieces, Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts, published...
Posted February 23, 2004 10:49 AM
R.J. Smith writes tough in the March issue of Los Angeles about Bernard Weinraub, the former White House and war correspondent who has covered Hollywood...
Posted February 21, 2004 06:57 PM
In December, Charlie LeDuff of the local New York Times bureau rode the L.A. River. In a story today, he rides Harleys with Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Posted February 13, 2004 03:29 PM
Sharon Waxman of the New York Times L.A. bureau gets the news that Mel Gibson has agreed to cut the most controversial scene in The...
Posted February 3, 2004 10:42 PM
About a year ago, the L.A. Times tried to woo New York Times "Circuits" reporter Jennifer 8. Lee to jump papers, proposing she come to...
Posted February 3, 2004 11:20 AM
The New York Times has yet to hire a new book review editor, but that person will almost certainly be an outsider and make these...
Posted January 22, 2004 10:26 AM
New York Times L.A. correspondent Charlie LeDuff is in the news again over a plagiarism accusation. This time it's an old one, posted on Romenesko...
Posted January 1, 2004 02:07 PM
That Charlie LeDuff piece in the NYT last week on kayaking the L.A. River was too familiar for Blake Gumprecht, author of the 1999 book...
Posted December 17, 2003 09:25 AM
MSNBC gossip Jeannette Walls had an item in The Scoop yesterday dinging NYT Hollywood writer Sharon Waxman for using a quote from Harvey Weinstein without...
Posted December 16, 2003 11:22 AM
After our SaveDisney.com item last week, the site pressing the agenda of Roy E. Disney was deemed culturally Irrelevant -- but that didn't stop the...
Posted December 15, 2003 12:01 AM
Yesterday's memo from the New York Times obituary editor calling for more fact-checking rigor was followed up today by a directive from on high. Standards...
Posted December 9, 2003 01:41 PM
Following a spate of erroneous or premature obituaries in its pages, the New York Times editor in charge of obits gets tough. His memo sent...
Posted December 8, 2003 08:25 PM
Charlie LeDuff of the New York Times tries to kayak the Los Angeles River and gets past downtown, only to be "discovered and expelled before...
Posted December 8, 2003 12:28 AM
Yes, apparently. This twist in the Anthony Pellicano-wiretap story gets an airing by Jack Shafer at Slate, and on the ever-more irrepressible LukeFord.net. More background...
Posted November 13, 2003 06:11 PM
From the New York Times: Freak Storm Leaves Los Angeles Under a Foot of Hail...
Posted November 13, 2003 05:39 PM
Odd little "Editorial Observer" piece by Brent Staples in yesterday's New York Times, pegged to Los Angeles and California. A correspondent writes that it was...
Posted November 11, 2003 05:59 PM
Attention L.A. media party hosts -- in making your invite lists for the holidays, think twice about putting Slate's Mickey Kaus and the New York...
Posted November 8, 2003 09:39 PM
Daniel Okrent has a good grasp of what his new position at the New York Times will mean to his cultural legacy: Now my obituary...
Posted October 29, 2003 09:50 AM
Nikki Finke on the LA Weekly website has the news that Sharon Waxman of the Washington Post Los Angeles bureau is taking the long-vacant New...
Posted October 24, 2003 05:59 PM
I'm glad someone figured out the spam trick of placing links in old comment threads on Movable Type sites (such as L.A. Observed). But what's...
Posted October 13, 2003 03:28 PM
For Laurie Garrett, the award-winning health writer for Newsday, it was one broken embargo too many by her competitors at the New York Times. She...
Posted September 24, 2003 01:52 PM
Maureen Dowd does Beverly Hills with Arnold....
Posted September 22, 2003 02:35 AM
Nikki Finke pops back into the LA Weekly with a "website-only exclusive" on Comcast expressing real interest in buying Vivendi Universal, and a long Deadline...
Posted July 23, 2003 06:28 PM
Kevin Drum at CalPundit wonders out loud how long it will be before pundit blogger Andrew Sullivan turns on new NYT editor Bill Keller. I...
Posted July 14, 2003 04:58 PM
Let the other blogs be intrigued by the New York Times' "corrective article" on TVT Records and Steven Gottlieb. My favorite correction for today is...
Posted July 14, 2003 10:12 AM
Perusing the New York Times compilation of "Weddings & Celebrations" today -- they take up four pages in Sunday Styles -- a familiar L.A. journalism...
Posted July 13, 2003 08:10 PM
This blog is coming to life in the midst of the scandal over disgraced New York Times reporter Jayson Blair. He made up stories, claimed...
Posted May 14, 2003 01:13 AM
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