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Adam Weinstein · 04/28/14 11:50AM
Adam Weinstein · 04/22/14 12:11PM
J.K. Trotter · 04/15/14 01:42PM
Meet the Rich Fashion Couple Who Love Africa, the Winklevoss Twins
Jordan Sargent · 04/14/14 02:16PMTaylor 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"The Story of Our Lives" at the Sources and Secrets Conference
Hamilton Nolan · 03/21/14 02:15PMTom 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 01:05PMThe 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
Sarah Hedgecock · 03/04/14 09:38AM
This Is the 161-Year-Old New York Times Article About 12 Years a Slave
Sarah Hedgecock · 03/03/14 11:15AMJ.K. Trotter · 03/03/14 10:09AM
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 01:30PMNew 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:
Relax, the United States Will Not Dismantle Our Perpetual War Machine
Tom Scocca · 02/24/14 05:54PMThe front page of today's New York Times has astonishing news for a nation accustomed to life on an eternal war footing: Defense secretary Chuck Hagel has proposed shrinking the United States military to a size, as the subheadline puts it, "Equal to That of 1940." Online, where the subheads are more expansive, the paper elaborates:
Times Critic Blasts Nick Kristof, Says Dylan Farrow Wants Attention
J.K. Trotter · 02/21/14 05:05PMLongtime New York Times book critic Janet Maslin, in a panel discussion last night, told an audience that Dylan Farrow had published her child-abuse accusations against her father, Woody Allen, in the Times as a way of “calling attention to herself,” inspired by “sibling rivalry issues” with her brother Ronan Farrow.