The Writers of The People vs. Big Tobacco Are Just Doing Their Job
The next time you feel underappreciated at work, consider the lot of three reporters for Bloomberg Business News–Carrick Mollenkamp, Adam Levy and Joseph Menn–who together authored The People vs. Big...
View ArticleInside The New York Times ‘ Gossip Column
Public Lives, The New York Times ' "non-gossip gossip column," as executive editor Joseph Lelyveld prefers to call it, turned 1 year old on Jan. 6. To most Times watchers, that's hard to believe. It...
View ArticleConsensus at Times on Succession: It’s Howell Raines, Not Keller
A little more than one year from now–April 5, 2002– The New York Times' executive editor, Joseph Lelyveld, will turn 65, the mandatory retirement age for editors at the paper. Speculation about Mr....
View ArticleRaines Succeeds Lelyveld at Times
The announcement that New York Times editorial-page editor Howell Raines will succeed Joseph Lelyveld as the paper's next executive editor hardly came as a shocker. As one Times reporter noted, the...
View ArticleA Journalist Investigates Memory, Family and Race
Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop, by Joseph Lelyveld. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 226 pages, $22. In 1964, an Ohio rabbi named Arthur Lelyveld went to Hattiesburg, Miss., and started knocking on doors in...
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Remembering Molly
Fine writers and close friends gathered Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the passions and the prescience of Molly Ivins, the larger-than-life Texan who spent every day of her life fighting for what she...
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