The NYT Now Allowing Comments on its Op-Ed Pieces - Posted September 25, 2008
Many of you who read the New York Times online will no doubt already have noticed that a comments function has been added to the op-ed columns. Now instead of spending Sunday brunch screaming at your relatives and friends over the latest Friedman, Dowd, or Rich column (really, is Kristol... [FishBowlNY]

The Wall St. Bailout: Is it Really a Good Idea to Give the Administration All the Purse Strings? - Posted September 23, 2008
It wasn't the New York Times headlines that gave us a fright this morning so much as NPR news. To paraphrase the segment we tuned into, this $700 million bailout proposal (it's actually only three pages long) that is currently hurtling its way through Congress (deadline Friday), if it is... [FishBowlNY]

McCain and the Press: Be Careful What You Wish For - Posted September 23, 2008
It's no secret that John McCain has been demonizing the press of late: it's an old trick that often works in the candidates advantage, however McCain, once the favorite son of the media may have taken it a step too far. Yesterday, during a conference call McCain campaign brain Steve... [FishBowlNY]

NYT's Timespeople Has Arrived - Posted September 23, 2008
So this morning when we clicked on to the New York Times homepage to read the morning financial doomsday headlines we were greeted with something new: Timespeople has arrived! For everybody! Timespeople, for those of you not already familiar, is the NYT answer to social networking, wherein you can... [FishBowlNY]

Should the Front Page of NYT.com Be Giving Us a Panic Attack? - Posted September 17, 2008
The homepage of the New York Times is scaring us. Not surprisingly we're not entirely clear on the details, but if the government just stepped in in order to bail out AIG isn't that supposed to make things better? This graph does not look better, which begs the question,... [FishBowlNY]

NYT Adds Breakingviews.com to its Opinion Roster - Posted September 17, 2008
How does the saying go? One person's trash is another person's treasure? Well, looks like it works for newspaper columns also. Reuters is reporting that the New York Times is planning on launching a daily business column (what timing!) to be provided by Breakingviews.com. You may recall... [FishBowlNY]

What Would Rupert Murdoch Do With the NYT? - Posted September 17, 2008
The answer is, nothing! Once and for all, Rupe does not want the New York Times! Or any other paper for that matter. Sadly, for the Newark Star-Ledger it seems he has enough newspapers. Per Murdoch at the Goldman Sachs conference today: Whoever wrote that crap, it's... [FishBowlNY]

How New York Media is Marking Sept. 11 - Posted September 11, 2008
Today is the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11 and we thought we'd take a look at how the day is being commemorated in the New York print media. Somewhat amazingly the New York Daily News is the only paper to feature today's anniversary on their cover (though both the News... [FishBowlNY]

Sunday NYT in Denver: Thinner, More Expensive - Posted August 25, 2008
Who knew the Sunday New York Times wasn't such a monstrosity for the entire country? Yesterday at the local Starbucks we encountered Denver's version of our weekly weight-lifting session and it was half the size. Not only that, it cost more. It's five dollars here.... [FishBowlNY]

Enough About the News, Let's Talk About Us — Why Don't You Like Us? - Posted August 7, 2008
Wow, so the New York Times seems to be doing its own peculiar impression of Woody Allen at his most neurotic. A recent reader's survey from the Times wants to know what it is exactly about them that you don't like. Was it that whole Judy Miller thing? ... [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]

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]