Dogged Times Op-Ed Columnist Gail Collins Will Not Let ‘Crate Gate’ Drop
“You’re the third person to contact me about this this week!” Gail Collins said through laughter when we reached her at her desk at The New York Times. Read More
Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
Sulzberger Family Place Sells for $10.25 million on Central Park West
Like their newspaper's readership, it seems the Sulzberger family has a particular affinity for the Upper West Side. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. recently bought a place at the Dorilton for $3.9 million, and now his cousins have been involved in a nearby sale for more than twice that amount. Daniel and James Cohen, whose Read More
Sulzberger Jr. Pinches Pointy Penthouse on UWS
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has erected a paywall around his newpaper's website to help keep out freeloading readers. When it comes to gossips and paparazzi, "Pinch" prefers an Upper West Side penthouse.
Back in February 2008, Mr. Sulzberger handed over his Central Park West duplex at Harperley Hall (home to quite a few media moguls) to his ex-wife Gail Gregg, though a flack claimed at the time that there would be no Sulzberger divorce. According to a deed from the transfer, he then moved into a boomerang-shaped studio atop 155 West 70th Street, which rented for $6,500 a month, according to StreetEasy.
Now Mr. Sulzberger has found a permanent penthouse to hang up his ink-stained suspenders in. Read More
Sulzberger on The Times’ Print Lifers…. Dueling Water Analogies for Web Media
It's Day Two at the e-G8 tech summit in Paris, and the main event is a standing-room-only panel going on now (8:52 a.m. New York time) about disintermediation ("Is the Internet Relaunching or Killing the Media?"), featuring Arthur Sulzberger of The New York Times and Robert Thomson of The Wall Street Journal. Interestingly enough, from the audience's perspective, Mr. Read More
In Other News…: Patrick McMullan Gives Bill Keller Proverbial Middle Finger
- If you look at one thing today, let it be this. Patrick McMullan a) doesn't know who Bill Keller is and b) misspells Arthur Sulzberger's name. It's genius.
- So, apparently the Titanic was sunk by human error. Nice try. We've seen Titanic enough times to know it was HUBRIS, plain and simple, Read More
Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Admits The Inevitable
During a talk at the International Newsroom Summit held in London, Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. admitted that "we will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future," but, said Sulzberger, that date is "TBD."
Business Insider has said for a while that this is the way the Times must Read More
Taiwan’s Next Media Releases Computer Animation Version of NYT v. WSJ Battle
Taiwan's forward-thinking Next Media Animation has affixed its CG gaze on the war between The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for the city's readers. And, thanks to the unsurprisingly fantastic result of the effort, everybody wins.
The clip may only last a minute and thirty seconds, but still manages to fit in scenes with Read More
Internal Memo: Les Hinton
I have little recollection of my time as head of News International. I simply do not know or do not remember the circumstances relating to the hacking of various voice-mail accounts of sundry royals, officials and celebrities that occurred four years ago, which is quite a long time. At the same time, I do not Read More
It’s New York Times Night at The Open
In case you didn't know (and really, how couldn't you?) today was Stonyfield Organic Yogurt Day at the Open! But that's not all: Tonight is New York Times Night!
What exactly does that mean? Will Bill Keller, Arthur Suzlberger, Janet Robinon and Jill Abramson be occupying seats in a suite?
The paper will receive a "certain number Read More
New York Times Proctologist, Signing Off
“Well, you’re here. You must be dumber than you look.” New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt remembered hearing these words from publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. on his first day.
In his last column over the weekend, Mr. Hoyt also remembered one highlight from his interactions with Bill Keller.
Bill Keller, the executive editor, once joked Read More
Whoa! Sally Singer Named Editor of T Magazine
Arthur Sulzberger Jr. just stunned the city.
Sally Singer, the features and fashion news editor at Vogue, the ear to Anna Wintour and regarded as one of the biggest talents in fashion publishing, is the new editor of T Magazine.
Ever since Stefano Tonchi left T for W, the search has been a long one, and it was expected the Read More
Journal Responds to Times Cease-and-Desist Letter: ‘We’re Within our Rights’
The Journal has responded to The Times' cease-and-desist letter over the "Not Just Wall Street. Every Street" ad campaign. The Journal said, in words more bitter than this, essentially: Stuff it.
And if you thought The Times' letter was catty? Well, this raises the ante a bit more. And even though the letter is signed by Dow Read More
Times Sends Journal Cease and Desist Letter Over Brand Campaign
A lawyer from The New York Times Company has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the marketing director at Dow Jones after a recent Journal advertisement used the same language as a recent Times ad.
"Not Just Wall Street. Every Street." That's the language of a new New York Times advertisement. It's an obvious dig at The Journal, and a familiar jab as Read More
Executive Compensation Compensation
2009: Bad Year for Media Biz (But Not Media Executives)
Even as media budgets dried up in 2009, some executive pay packages soared.
CBS C.E.O. Leslie Moonves' pay ($43 million) doubled between 2008 and 2009 and Viacom C.E.O. Phillip P. Dauman ($34 million) saw a 22 percent jump.
The New York Times reports that while the paper's own C.E.O. Janet Robinson and Chairman Arthur Read More
At Greater New York Fete, Murdoch Tells Sulzberger to ‘Get a Life’
It was a few minutes after 7 p.m. Monday night on Broadway and 36th Street, and Rupert Murdoch was addressing a crowd of a few hundred pinstripe-suited machers. “With tonight’s launch of Greater New York, we are going to make The Journal a complete paper and New Yorkers’ essential source for news and information,” he Read More
