Adam Moss Is Seeking Inspiration
One of the works of art in Moss’s book is a Times front page from May 2020, which saw the paper memorialize nearly 100,000 COVID deaths by filling…
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“People Are Disgusted”: Why Washington Post Staff Walked Out
The Guild is asking for 4% raises a year for three years, while the company is offering 2.25% for the first year of the contract, and 2% the…
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How Jessica Lessin’s The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult
The OpenAI saga was, in many ways, a perfect story for The Information. Reporters at the influential tech site spent the week of Thanksgiving obsessively chronicling the chaos…
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How the New York Times Union Finally Got a Pay Raise
Tuesday night, after protracted negotiations and public disputes, the bitter labor fight within The New York Times came to an end: The staff union, which represents more than 1,400…
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“How Do We Get Every Second of Your Day?”: The New York Times Goes All In on a New Podcast App
The average New York Times reader, as the Times sees it, checks their push notifications first thing in the morning, scrolls through the internet while making coffee, then puts…
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Inside the Very Tough Business of Trying to Disrupt Media
On Monday, Grid News, a one-year-old online news start-up, went dark; its articles and teal branding disappeared, and its web address redirected to a navy blue page with…
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Stephen A. Smith Thinks You, Too, Could Be Stephen A. Smith
Less than a minute into discussing his upcoming memoir, Stephen A. Smith set out the facts: no ghostwriter, no help, did it himself. The boisterous ESPN personality got his start…
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What Happened to The New York Times’ Media Column?
It was this time last year that New York Times media columnist Ben Smith announced he’d be giving up one of the most coveted jobs in journalism. The…
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“The Sulzbergers Must Hate This”: Scenes From The New York Times Picket Line
A sea of red shirts filled the half block outside The New York Times headquarters in Manhattan, spilling out onto the street; Scabby, the 12-foot inflatable rat with…
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