NYT: In the Market For a Little Deja Vu? - Posted August 4, 2008
Last week Gawker pointed out that something about the New York Times was sounding awfully familiar, as in, haven't we read this before? We had the exact same experience this Sunday upon opening the Style section and glancing the article about how Manhattan is currently being overrun by foreigners taking... [FishBowlNY]

NYT: In the Market For a Little Deja Vu? - Posted August 4, 2008
Last week Gawker pointed out that something about the New York Times was sounding awfully familiar, as in, haven't we read this before? We had the exact same experience this Sunday upon opening the Style section and glancing the article about how Manhattan is currently being overrun by foreigners taking... [FishBowlNY]

IHT Names William Schmidt to Top Editor Spot - Posted July 23, 2008
The International Herald Tribune has announced that William Schmidt, most recently an assistant managing editor at the New York Times, has been named IHT's new top editor. Schmidt will be taking over for Martin Gottlieb who has been serving in the position on an interim basis. According to... [FishBowlNY]

John McCain Does Not Want to be Barack Obama's Mirror - Posted July 21, 2008
File this under another headline that prior to this election we might have attributed to The Onion. Drudge is reporting that the New York Times turned down an op-ed written by John McCain because it didn't "mirror" the one penned by Barack Obama last week. Obama's piece, which ran... [FishBowlNY]

NYT: Out of the Fishbowl, Into the Bullpen - Posted July 15, 2008
While here at FBNY we are all safely ensconced in our own little fishbowls, word has it that New York Times chief Bill Keller and managing editor Jill Abramson have given in to their egalitarian side and moved their offices into the newsroom "bull pen." Apparently, neither were comfortable with... [FishBowlNY]

NYT Newsroom: Just Like Living in China? - Posted July 15, 2008
Via the New York Observer comes a memo from NYT standards editor, Craig Whitney. Whitney, it seems, just completed a road trip and after seeing numerous political bumper stickers on his journeys felt compelled to clarify with newsroom staffers how and where they should be sharing their political views (i.e.... [FishBowlNY]

Does the NYT Have an Obama Shaped Hole in Their Heart? - Posted July 11, 2008
So this last week or so there seems to have been a bit of a rude awakening re Barack Obama over at the New York Times op-ed pages. First off, last Friday (July 4, no less) the editorial board wrote a piece titled "New and Not Improved" about how Obama's... [FishBowlNY]

Leona Helmsley Dead At 87 - Posted August 20, 2007
Leona Helmsley has passed away at the age of 87 from heart failure. Over at the New York Times/City Room, Sewell Chan (with assistance from Roja Heydarpour) was the first out of the gate with a proper obituary within an hour of Howard Rubinstein's formal announcement. At press time, the Daily... [FishBowlNY]

Fox News, New York Times Vandalizing Rivals' Wikipedia Entries? - Posted August 15, 2007
Were staffers at Fox News and the New York Times engaged in Wikipedia vandalism on the job? It sure looks like it. A writer for tech publishers O'Reilly Media traced changes to Al Franken's Wikipedia entry to a Fox News IP address. Then bloggers Geeks Are Sexy compiled a list of Fox... [FishBowlNY]

NY Times Sends Men to International Herald Tribune - Posted January 9, 2007
Tribulations continue in Paris as the New York Times exerts more of its influence at the International Herald Tribune. Disgruntled staff held a meeting yesterday, and there were plenty of complaints expected, including continued concerns over compensation and how long the paper can continue as a business. There had previously been... [FishBowlNY]