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Category Archives: New York Times
Unspotted: Joseph Kahn’s Times Through Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger
Mary Douglas (1921-2007) published Purity and Danger in 1966 and gave social science its most useful definition of dirt: matter out of place. Dirt is not a quality of things; it is a by-product of classification. Shoes are not dirty, … Continue reading
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The Dean Baquet Anthropology
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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The Anthropology of New York Times Editor Joseph Kahn
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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Michelle Goldberg & the Believer Beat
Michelle Goldberg (b. 1975) is an American journalist, author, and political commentator whose work examines the intersection of religion, sex, ideology, and political power. Since 2017 she has written an opinion column for The New York Times, where she is … Continue reading
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The Gallery Method: Jonathan Swan and the Craft of Insider Reporting
Jonathan Swan is an Australian journalist who arrived in Washington as a visiting fellow and became a United States citizen. He built his reputation on the oldest tools of the trade: source cultivation, verification, and speed. His career shows how … Continue reading
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Maggie Haberman – Taking the Call
Maggie Haberman (b. 1973) became the defining journalist of the Trump era. No other mainstream reporter matched her sustained access to Donald Trump (b. 1946), her volume of consequential stories about him, or her influence over how the press and … Continue reading
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Joseph Kahn and the Stewardship of The New York Times
Joseph F. Kahn (b. 1964) edits The New York Times. He holds the position of executive editor, the highest rank in the newsroom, and has held it since June 2022. He directs more than 2,300 journalists and sets the editorial … Continue reading
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The Institutionalist: Dean Baquet and the Remaking of American Journalism
As executive editor of The New York Times from 2014 to 2022, Dean P. Baquet (b. 1956) becomes the first Black journalist to run the newsroom of the most influential paper in the United States, and he presides over its … Continue reading
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The Publisher Always Wins – A Jill Abramson Biography
Jill Ellen Abramson (b. 1954) stands at the center of the most consequential transition in modern American journalism, the passage from print dominance to digital survival. She becomes the first woman to run the newsroom of The New York Times, … Continue reading
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What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First
The New York Times is the most influential American newspaper. It reports the news, and it also supplies the framework through which the country’s governing class understands itself. Editors at other papers watch what it features. Network producers build segments … Continue reading
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