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Two-Way Tie in New York Times ‘Year in Pictures 2021’ Bakeoff
As some of you splendid readers might recall, the end of December is the most photoful time of the year around the Global Worldwide Headquarters, thanks in no small part to the annual Dance of the Shutterbugs in the New … Continue reading
Oh No the New York Times Di’int Print ‘Fucked’ on Page One!
Hey, the Nude York Times is one thing. But the Crude York Times is something else. From today’s front page: Of course, that should come as no surprise after the Grey Lady printed Donald Trump’s Access Hollywood grab ’em boast verbatim … Continue reading
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Tagged Access Hollywood, Crude York Times, Donald Trump, Grey Lady, The Nude York Times
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New York Times Ventures Into New Adver-Whatever Frontier
Over the past several years, the hardworking staff – and our kissin’ cousins at Sneak Adtack – have chronicled the Grey Lady’s opening the kimono to advertorials and edvertorials from marketers hither and yon. Still, we weren’t sure what to … Continue reading
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Tagged advertorial, Crush, edvertorial, Generation G, Grey Lady, native advertising, New York Times, Sneak ADtack, Tia
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Rarer Than the Eclipse! Wall Street Journal Runs Ad in NYT!
Here’s something else you’ll see about once every hundreds years: The Wall Street Journal taking out a full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times. The hardsipping staff has no idea how many Times readers will discover the WSJwine … Continue reading
The Grey Lady Moneti$es Yet Another of Her Journalists
As the hardworking staff has diligently chronicled, the New York Times is turning itself into a full-service, well, service. Travel agency, tchotchke shop, conference center – you name it, the Times will do it. For money, of course. Now comes the … Continue reading
The Grey Lady Opens the Kimono All the Way
As the hard tracking staff at Sneak Adtack has dutifully noted, the New York Times is increasingly blurring the line between advertising and editorial. Especially prevalent are the Russian nesting ads the Times has developed – advertising in the print … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Seaman, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., Campaign Outsider, Charles Duhigg, Columbia Journalism Review, Dean Baquet, Elisabeth Bumiller, Grey Lady, Half Moon Bay, Jeff Gerth, native advertising, New Work Summit, New York Times, New York Times Conferences, Nicholas Kristof, NYT Live, Paul Farhi, Ray Dalio, Reuters, Russian nesting ads, shenadigans, Society of Professional Journalists, State of the Cuisinart, T Brand Studio, Times Journeys, Times Store, Washington Post
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More Pom Poms From News Media Pep Squad for Truth
As the hardworking staff has diligently noted, all kinds of news organizations are busily marketing their truthfulness and reliability to a skeptical public. Call the roll: New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and some outfit called … Continue reading
Newspapers Fight Fake News Rap with Pep Squad for Truth
As our kissin’ cousins at Two-Daily Town noted the other day, newspapers are falling all over themselves trying to convince the American public that the press actually matters in a very real way. It started with the Washington Post pasting … Continue reading
New York Times Editing Slashback: ‘What Driver’s Want’ Edition
Latest in what we expect will be a long-running series As the hardworking staff noted earlier this week, the New York Times is jettisoning its “low-value line editing” and replacing it with “bespoke editing.” Or, more likely, “be-broke editing.” Exhibit … Continue reading
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Tagged be-broke editing, be-woke editing, bespoke editing, Grey Lady, Honda, low-value line editing, New York Times, Toyota, Yoshihiro Masui
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Does The New York Times Have A Pulitzer Complex?
Interesting juxtaposition in Sunday’s New York Times. From the Public Editor’s column about the Pulitzer Prize celebration at the New York Times last Monday: I was struck by how well-tuned the whole affair seemed to be. At other newspapers, celebrations … Continue reading
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Tagged Grey Lady, New York Times, Public Editor, Pulitzer Prize, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
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