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Articles tagged James Bennet (7)

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 9, 2022

Please explain tweet threads to the jury: The Sarah Palin v. New York Times trial shines a light on opinion sections

The trial is very accessible, and it’s generating a lot of peeks inside.

Sarah ScireJune 8, 2020

After newsroom protests, The New York Times opinion page editor and the top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer have resigned

The editor of The New York Times opinion section, James Bennet, and the top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Stan Wischnowski, faced crises in their newsrooms over an op-ed and an offensive headline, respectively, last week.

Laura Hazard OwenJune 4, 2020

“This puts Black @nytimes staff in danger”: New York Times staffers band together to protest Tom Cotton’s anti-protest op-ed

“It has never been my expectation that every piece the New York Times publishes will confirm my personal worldview, but it was also never my expectation The Times would run an op-ed calling for state violence.”

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 27, 2019

A hotline for racists, a gun control app for “a**holes”: The New York Times is taking its opinion video coverage in a new, YouTube direction

“We’re trying to be a platform for voices that you wouldn’t ordinarily read in text at the Times.”

Ken DoctorFebruary 22, 2019

The New York Times’ Mark Thompson on how he’d run a local newspaper: “Where can we stand and fight?”

“I believe that if you’re producing journalism of value, there is no reason to expect that consumers wouldn’t be prepared, in some way, to support that — potentially to pay for it. And that’s probably, ultimately, true of regional and local journalism as well as national and international journalism.”

Shan WangSeptember 17, 2015

How The Atlantic built an online splash around its Ta-Nehisi Coates cover story

“We publish the magazine ten times a year, so we need to take advantage of this extraordinary piece of real estate to drive a really big idea out there into the public consciousness,” said The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief and co-president James Bennet.

Through The Wire: What happened with The Atlantic’s experiment in aggregation?

The Atlantic invested years and money into figuring out what they wanted The Wire to be. Now, after relaunching and promising reinvestment, the site is being brought back under the wing of its parent. Justin Ellis