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November 1, 2012 12:00 AM
‘How to Get On With Your Life’
Kate White talks life after Cosmo
It takes guts to quit a job running the world’s best-selling women’s magazine. But Kate White has long embodied the “fun fearless female” ethos of Cosmopolitan, which she edited for the past 14 years. White resigned in September, shortly after The New York Times noted that the 100 million readers of the brand’s 64 editions, confederated, would add up...
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September 7, 2012 11:00 AM
Identity crisis
Journatic's short-lived editorial director Mike Fourcher weighs in
In July, just 10 weeks after he started work as the editorial director of Journatic, Mike Fourcher announced on his personal blog that he was stepping down from the position. Since 2006, Journatic had been offering beleaguered newspapers with shrinking news staffs a cheaper alternative for community reporting. It was still relatively unknown this summer when an episode of...
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July 18, 2012 11:00 AM
Setting a new Record
Martin Gottlieb returns to his roots
He traded Paris for Hackensack? Really? Well, not exactly. As global editions editor for The New York Times, Martin Gottlieb was not living in France, just traveling there several times a year, from his home in lower Manhattan to the office of The International Herald Tribune. Then in January, he became editor of The Record, the northern New Jersey...
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May 22, 2012 06:50 AM
Exit Interview
C-SPAN’s maestro exits the stage
In 1979, Brian Lamb, then the head of Cablevision’s DC bureau, achieved what now seems unimaginable: He convinced Congress and cable executives to back his plan to create a nonprofit that would broadcast the proceedings of the House of Representatives, gavel to gavel. It was called C-SPAN, or the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network, and 34 years later, it...
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February 29, 2012 03:45 PM
Exit Interview
Whither the wizard of HuffPo?
Paul Berry became the chief technology officer of the Huffington Post in 2007. He developed technical strategies that exploited the social, real-time Web as no other journalism business ever had, enabling huge growth. To this day, even those not in love with HuffPo’s editorial product swoon over its technical capabilities. Now Berry is leaving to start a “social news”...
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December 19, 2011 05:19 PM
Q&A: New York Times Iraq reporter Michael S. Schmidt
On finding classified documents in the trash, and transitioning from the sports beat
Several weeks ago, New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt, a foreign correspondent in the newspaper’s Baghdad bureau, went looking for US military trailers in a local junkyard. Schmidt was trying to find a new way to tell the story of American withdrawal from Iraq—and he found one when he stumbled upon a binder of classified military documents that included...
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February 23, 2011 04:29 PM
Mark Cuban’s Business Model
A media maverick on the news industry
Mark Cuban is well known as the brash, combative owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team, the guy who looks like a big kid and sometimes acts like one. His outbursts can obscure his most notable attribute—he is an astute businessman.
Cuban made his fortune building and selling two businesses—the first a computer-services company and the second an...
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August 25, 2010 05:59 PM
Legal Aid
The need for press freedom and government transparency is as urgent today as ever, but the newsrooms that long defended key rights have fewer resources. A year-old externship program at Yale Law School is trying to help. The ten students in the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum work pro bono to support journalists on issues ranging from national security...
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January 9, 2009 09:00 AM
Object Lessons
Holland Cotter on truth, beauty, and critical Zen
The art critic Holland Cotter joined the staff of The New York Times in 1998, after six years of freelancing for the paper. Over the last decade, he has focused often on Asian art—and the recent swell of interest in this area has given his work a new centrality. Cotter’s following, however, stems from the sheer quality of his style,...
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