How a NY Times biz reporter protects confidential sources
New York Times finance editor David Enrich talked about his job and how he does his reporting and writing. Here is an excerpt: So you often edit and report on sensitive stories. How do you protect the confidentiality of sources and leave no digital trace? I use encrypted chat programs like WhatsApp and Signal for […]
Poferl named associate masthead editor and audience director at NYT
Hannah Poferl has been named associate masthead editor and the next audience director at the New York Times. Poferl, one of the paper’s top strategists and analytics experts, helped build the audience team as a deputy to Jodi Rudoren, who recently left The Times to assume a new post as editor of The Forward. In […]
New York Times ad highlights female athletes’ fight for pay equity
To showcase how independent journalism helps people understand the gender gap and why it persists, The New York Times will release a new ad during the U.S. Open semifinals. Called \”The Truth Has a Voice\”, the ad highlights the challenges women athletes face when it comes to pay equity. In 1974, the U.S. Open made history […]
NY Times hires WSJ’s Hong
New York Times metro editor Cliff Levy sent out the following announcement on Friday: I’m thrilled to announce that Nicole Hong, an ace criminal justice and investigative reporter, is joining Metro. Nicole has been a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for seven years, where she was a member of the team that won the […]
Muse Abernathy named 2019 Welles Memorial Prize Winner
Penelope (Penny) Muse Abernathy was awarded the 2019 Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize by The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business at the Columbia Journalism School. Muse Abernathy was recognized for her widely-cited research titled “The Expanding News Desert,” which looks at implications for communities at risk of losing their primary source of credible news […]
New York Times drops sponsorship of oil conference after protests
The New York Times has dropped sponsorship of an oil conference after protests by climate activists outside its Manhattan offices. The Oil and Money conference is due to take place next month at the InterContinental Hotel on Park Lane in London and will attract executives from the world’s biggest oil companies as well as senior […]
NY Times’ Alba: Tech reporting should focus on how it infiltrates systems
Donna Patricia Manio of Metro.style profiles new New York Times tech reporter Davey Alba. Manio writes, “Later on, Davey found herself beating deadlines for Wired and BuzzFeed News where she was able to pursue stories she deemed important. ‘After a few years in the business, I started to see a shift in tech reporting from […]
WSJ reporter Rothfeld hired by New York Times
New York Times editors Cliff Levy and Kirsten Danis sent out the following announcement on Friday. We’re very excited to announce that Michael Rothfeld, one of the finest investigative reporters around, is joining the investigative unit on the Metro desk. His hiring is another sign of our robust commitment to local investigative reporting at The […]
A NY Times biz reporter solicited Epstein for charity donation
David Folkenflik of NPR writes about how former New York Times business reporter Landon Thomas had asked convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for a donation to a Harlem charity, which Epstein made. Folkenflik reports, “This account is based on interviews with five current and former New York Times staffers with knowledge of the episode. They […]
Why a NY Times economics reporter writes stories longhand
Conor Dougherty, an economics reporter at The New York Times, talks about why he writes his stories longhand. Here is an excerpt: Writing is all about getting started and keeping going, so whatever system helps you do that is the best system for you. In my case that’s paper, preferably yellow, but I can be […]
