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Choire · 09/17/07 10:16AM

In-house memo from Larry Ingrassia, the New York Times Business editor: "I am pleased to say that Peter Goodman, who has been the international economic correspondent at the Washington Post, is joining Business Day as an economics reporter."

'Times' Biz Editor's Problematic Murdoch Book Proposal

Doree Shafrir · 08/31/07 10:50AM

A couple weeks ago, the Columbia Journalism Review defended the New York Times' coverage of the Dow Jones-Rupert Murdoch deal from the editorial writers at the Wall Street Journal, who alleged that the Times only had its own self-interest at heart: "I really object to the Journal's editorialists calling into question—by name—the motives behind The New York Times and The Financial Times for their coverage of the News Corp. story." But now people are saying that the NYT's Business section didn't have the purest of motives in its coverage—its editor is shopping a book about the deal itself.