The view from the NYT media desk

Dylan Byers of Adweek talked to New York Times media editor Bruce Headlam about the prominent role that his desk plays in the documentary “Page One” about the newspaper.

Here is an excerpt:

Do you personally think that the Media desk is the best representation of the paper?
No, no. I think it’s a representation of the paper. You know, we do things a particular way, but we’re not getting shot at, we’re not covering the Arab Spring. We’re covering ourselves. And as we say here, ‘How do we cover ourselves? That depends on where we’re getting kicked.’ But I don’t want to say, ‘We are the best representation.’ We may be the stars of the film; we’re not the stars of The New York Times, and I’m pretty happy with that…There are certainly times in the film where you think, ‘Why are they talking to the media guys? They’re not getting shot at.’ But we’re kind of stand-ins for the entire newsroom.

How do you mean?
Well, we kind of represent the Times way of reporting; we just happen to be reporting on our own demise—or, our own near-demise.

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