Larry Ingrassia

Janet Robinson said this morning on a conference call with investors that nytimes.com had 3 of its 10 best days ever for traffic during the week of Oct. 5. The Web site also recorded three consecutive record-breaking weeks in terms of page views (presumably also during the financial crisis).

She said that "in coming months" the Web site will continue to expand the personal technology, your money and small business sections channels, which it launched on nytimes.com in September.

She also said that The Times would "introduce more journalists" to the business section (something they've already started).

Because the financial world went on fire, page views for the business section have been up 66 percent year over year in September and the newly launched economy section had 4 million page views in September.  read more »

The Times has hired Stephanie Clifford to become their new advertising reporter. Ms. Clifford spent the last three years at Inc. Magazine and before that freelanced for places like Us Weekly and Sports Illustrated Women. She'll replace Louise Story on the beat, who in turn is getting a new—and unannounced—duty on the business desk. Business editor Larry Ingrassia writes in a memo that Ms. Clifford "is eager to work at a newspaper where she can expand her repertoire." Click "read more" for the memo.  read more »

Former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald did not inform one of his editors at The Times that he suffered from memory loss. "Kurt never told me that he suffers from memory loss, and to the best of my knowledge he didn't tell any editor here," wrote Times business editor Larry Ingrassia--who oversaw Mr. Eichenwald's controversial child pornograpahy story--in an email to The Observer.

Mr. Eichenwald revealed in an interview today with NPR that he has long-term memory loss due to a battle with epilepsy.

Mr. Eichenwald did inform Portfolio editor-in-chief Joanne Lipman that he has memory disruptions, but only in one of their final conversations together, two sources said. He later resigned from the glossy magazine.

Brian Stelter, the 21-year-old blogger behind TVNewser.com, graduated from Towson University last month. Next, he’s joining The New York Times.

Mr. Stelter is going to be a staff reporter for the Times business section, according to an internal memo.

It’s not such a surprising move, considering that Mr. Stelter has clearly been on the Times BizDay radar. In November 2006, he was the subject of a 1,400-word profile. The headline: “The Kid With All the News About the TV News.”

Mr. Stelter launched CableNewser on Jan. 1, 2004, and the name changed nearly six months later.

Full memo after the jump ...  read more »

“Some day we’ll all be reading our papers electronically,” said Arthur Gelb, who s  read more »

Today, Times editor Bill Keller announced changes in the paper's Page 1 meeting schedule. And he insists this move is not just to get AME Rick Berke out of bed earlier: it's about web strategy.

Full memo after the jump.  read more »