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Frank Bruni Is Pure Garbage

Hamilton Nolan · 05/05/14 10:35AM

Frank Bruni, a bad newspaper columnist who is nevertheless employed as a columnist by America's most prominent newspaper, is obligated to write two columns per week. He has approximately zero good ideas per week. This is what causes things like Sunday's column to happen.

J.K. Trotter · 04/15/14 01:42PM

New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson tells Employee of the Month host Catie Lazarus* that she has two back tattoos: Her newspaper’s “T” insignia and “a Crimson Harvard ‘H,’” both of which represent “the two institutions that I revere, that have shaped me.”

Taylor Berman · 04/11/14 05:02PM

Emmis Publishing, the publisher of the Texas Monthly, initiated a lawsuit on Friday against the Monthly's current editor, Jake Silverstein, and the New York Times for breach of contract. Last month, Silverstein was hired as the editor of the New York Times Magazine. UPDATE: Emmis claims they're only suing the Times.

Times Story on Pakistan-Bin Laden Ties Vanishes in Pakistan Papers

Adam Weinstein · 03/22/14 10:45AM

International editions of the New York Times appeared in Pakistan Saturday with a huge gaping white space where a story on Pakistan's alleged ties to Osama Bin Laden should have been, according to multiple reports from journalists and observers in the region.

"The Story of Our Lives" at the Sources and Secrets Conference

Hamilton Nolan · 03/21/14 02:15PM

The NSA, America's all seeing eye, doesn't want to know everything about everybody, Barton Gellman said today, his face hovering on a screen at the front of the New York Times' airy auditorium. "It wants to be able to know anything about anybody."

Tom Scocca · 03/12/14 02:55PM

Is opinion writing dead? Is there even such a thing as "opinion writing," or is it just a concept that you impose on things? ("You.") ("Things.") Maybe you are reading these words but to your reality they are words about lawn care or asteroids. Maybe the words are reading you, did you ever think? (["Think."])

Can Writing Be Assessed? A Five-Paragraph Essay

Tom Scocca · 03/11/14 01:05PM

The New York Times had yet another of its delightful "Room for Debate" sessions, in which various experts throw quick-take opinions on a subject past one another. The subject: Was the College Board right to have decided to make the essay portion of future SAT tests optional? Or, more broadly, "Can Writing Be Assessed?" Although Gawker was not specifically invited to participate, below is our contribution to the conversation.

J.K. Trotter · 03/11/14 11:45AM

The New York Times Editorial Board says employers who require unpaid interns to earn academic credit “pretend that the credit somehow justifies not paying for a student’s work.” Does that include the New York Times?

Sarah Hedgecock · 03/04/14 09:38AM

The New York Times issued a correction today on its 161-year-old article about Solomon Northup, the real-life hero of 12 Years a Slave. The writer of the article had misspelled Northup's last name.

J.K. Trotter · 03/03/14 10:09AM

“Diversity was a leading motif for ceremony that was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, a happy-go-lucky lesbian who spent most of the evening in a tuxedo.”

Tom Scocca · 02/25/14 04:52PM

The Times tells the gripping and unreal tale of David Bar Katz, who found Philip Seymour Hoffman's body, was quoted in the National Enquirer as the actor's lover and drug buddy, and will now start a playwrights' foundation with quick settlement money after the tabloid realized its source was an impostor.

No, Margaret Sullivan, Goldman Sachs Never Banned Talking In Elevators

J.K. Trotter · 02/25/14 01:30PM

New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan weighed in today on DealBook editor Andrew Ross Sorkin’s unmasking of the titanically unfunny Twitter account @GSElevator, which purported to publish conversations overheard in the office elevators of investment bank Goldman Sachs. The bank was so concerned with account, Sullivan writes, that it banned talking in elevators:

Hamilton Nolan · 02/10/14 04:22PM

"'The only thing better than the smell of a new car is the smell of a new house,' Ms. Desiderio said. 'Just the 1 percent of buyers seems to want old and antique.'" Every last person who is quoted in last Sunday's New York Times real estate section should be jailed.