Tom Mcgeveran
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Bruce Headlam out, too, in Times video shake-up
The Times will conduct a broad reexamination of its video efforts. → Read More
The end of adolescence for a bizarre East River utopia
The Roosevelt Island I grew up on is very different today, and looks like it will be very, very different some time in the 2030s, when Cornell has finished building its enormous technical institute. → Read More
'Was she hot?': Jeans commercials, from Brooke Shields to the girl who looked like Molly Ringwald
Jeans have a long history in the United States, since they were invented in 1873 by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss as workmen's pants whose distinct characteristic was not the denim cloth they were made of but the copper rivets that reinforced the weak points in work pants. After World War II they were common as playclothes and work clothes, and later among hippies and flower children; bell-bottom… → Read More
The kingdom and the power of David Carr
He's the battle-hardened face of The New York Times, that kind of zealous convert every clerical magisterium (and the top of the Times masthead is a sort of Vatican) wishes for but could never intentionally create. He is the institution's most important champion. → Read More
'A step away from life': Why you should watch Larry Sanders on Netflix right now
The last episode of "The Larry Sanders Show" begins with the camera trained on a TV screen showing Jack Paar's 1965 farewell to the audience of "The Jack Paar Program." Paar is sitting on a stool. "There are great opportunities for new talent in television," he says. "I know from my own beginnings in radio how important that first break can be, and I've tried to offer such a beginning to new… → Read More
POLITICO shuffles the deck for 2016
A new hire, and some moving pieces, to prepare for the big race. → Read More
Catastrophic 'News of the World': Some salvage jobs are impossible, even for Rupert Murdoch
Previous scandals at News Corp. have merely harmed Rupert Murdoch's his reputation as a facilitator of respectable journalism. This is the first one that threatens his reputation as a winner. → Read More
What do America and the Vatican want from each other?
An interview with Vatican scholar the Rev. Thomas Reese. → Read More
Finanical Times to debut big redesign Monday
A memo to staff suggests the new look is about more than just looks. → Read More
Financial Times to debut big redesign Monday
A memo to staff suggests the new look is about more than just looks. → Read More
Is the Times' editorial board a Democratic player or protester?
Last night's results suggest the paper's editorial board is going in a different direction from those Democrats most likely to vote. → Read More
This was Williamsburg
There was nothing around there back then. I mean really, nothing but working factories, mostly textile mills with giant mechanized looms churning out cheap sweaters, amazing late-industrial objects to watch, the noises of which became familiar to us quickly as one was still operating on the other end of our floor. → Read More
Predicting the past
The hedge-funder as outer borough gentrification-hunter → Read More
U.A.E. printer stops presses on International New York Times
An article about workers at New York University's Abu Dhabi campus was deemed 'too sensitive for local printing.' → Read More
Anna Holmes to direct digital content for Fusion
Jezebel founding editor and New York Times columnist Anna Holmes will take a job at Fusion, the millennial-targeting cable news channel owned by ABC News and Univision, as "editor of Digital Voices and Storytelling," she told Re/code's Peter Kafka in an interview. "[Their] audience is made up mostly of millennials, and because they consume stories and the news in ways that are much different than… → Read More
When Jill Abramson was the only grown-up in the Times building
Of all the people at the Times who bore responsibility for the paper's fatally flawed Iraq coverage, Jill Abramson was the only one to claim it for herself. → Read More
When straight-keeper in chief Jill Abramson gets the tabloid treatment
Has Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, → Read More
When Jill Abramson was the only grown-up in the Times building
Of all the people at the Times who bore responsibility for the paper's fatally flawed Iraq coverage, Jill Abramson was the only one to claim it for herself. → Read More
D.C. media chronicler Dylan Byers to shift base to L.A.
Byers will continue to write about the media from his new home. → Read More
A 'Parks and Recreation' guide to the local media universe
There are lots of ways the charming town of Pawnee, Indiana is behind the times. → Read More