The Associated Press made headlines last week when it decided to strike the phrase “illegal immigrant” from its style guide. Related idioms such as “illegal alien,” “an illegal,” or “undocumented immigrant” are likewise now verba non grata to the AP.… Read more
"Representing a diversity of authors and books is extremely important at the Book Review, and it will continue to be. And by diversity, I mean variety in every way: a diversity of author backgrounds and ideologies and arguments, a diversity of genre, a diversity of subject matter. While the VIDA numbers were indeed dismal overall, I was pleased to see that the Book Review has had a far better record than many other publications."She didn't elaborate on how she would help diversify the section.
Former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller discusses the paper’s recent buyouts:
I hated to see Jon Landman leave the paper and I hated to see Joe Sexton leave the paper. … Landman and Sexton were the kind of people who could do just about anything. You feel that sense that your bench has lost a certain nimbleness, and I think [current Executive Editor] Jill [Abramson] would agree with that.
On the other hand, I think it made her job in some ways harder that she decided to focus it on non-Guild — more of the higher-end editors. But it was a shrewd thing to do, A. because we’d just been through a rough time with the Guild and it was a way of saying, “You’re not the only ones who are bearing the burden around here, and B. frankly because people who are higher up in the pyramid make more money. So you lose fewer people to hit your dollar target.
Among the benefits of the new design, according to the press release: "A cleaner, more engaging design," "Responsive designs optimized for desktops and tablets" and "Higher-impact presentation of advertising." I’m pretty sure that if we had been the sole recipient we would not have shared Manning’s gift with other news organizations. That is partly for competitive reasons, but also because sharing a treasury of raw intelligence, especially with foreign news media, might have increased the legal jeopardy for The Times and for our source.A lot of the documents in Manning's database were too local for the Times, he adds, writing, "WikiLeaks got much more mileage out of the secret cables than we would have done." Prosecutors probably would have leapt on Manning no matter who received the documents, Keller writes.
Although as a matter of law I believe WikiLeaks and The New York Times are equally protected by the First Amendment, it’s possible the court’s judgment of the leaker might be colored by the fact that he delivered the goods to a group of former hackers with an outlaw sensibility and an antipathy toward American interests. Will that cost Manning at sentencing time? I wonder. And it might explain the piling on of maximum charges. During pretrial, the judge, Col. Denise Lind, asked whether the prosecution would be pressing the same charges if Manning had leaked to The Times. “Yes, Ma’am,” was the reply. Maybe so. But I suspect the fact that Manning chose the anti-establishment WikiLeaks as his collaborator made the government more eager to add on that dubious charge of “aiding the enemy.”Related: Law enforcement agencies, others, grapple with definitions of "journalist" when issuing press passes (Associated Press) Previously: NYT doesn’t remember call from Bradley Manning
(more...)WOW! #BradleyManning reveals tried to give US secrets to Wash Post and NYTimes but failed to get through to them so went to #WikiLeaks
— Ed Pilkington (@Edpilkington) February 28, 2013
"We think he is in heaven now with a New York Post and a falafel sandwich, having a good chuckle over this notoriety,” his son said.Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy told Post reporters Jennifer Bain and Pedro Oliveira Jr. she thought the notice was "sort of amusing."
Daniel Shuchman acknowledged that his father might not have liked his obit because he would “not have wanted to generate revenue for the Times.”
But “he would have laughed heartily at the irony and the posthumous attention the obituary is getting,’’ the son said.