Adam Nagourney, "The Times"

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Adam Nagourney, "The Times: How the Newpaper of Record Survived

Sandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism" (2023)

 

세 publisher와 일곱 executive editor에 걸친 1977~2016 뉴욕타임즈 역사를, 사람들 이야기라서, "삼국지"처럼 재밌게 읽었다.

 

      "In The Times, Adam Nagourney, who has worked at The New York Times since 1996, examines four decades of the newspaper's history, from the apointment of A. M. Rosenthal as executive editor in 1977 through the watershed year of 2016, when this symbol of the American print newspaper ... took its final steps to becoming a model for journalistic success in a digital age." --- 겉표지 안쪽에서

 

뉴욕 타임즈 서평

 

아래는, 사진과 함께, 위 서평에서:

 

Nagourney describes his journalistic colleagues as “by their nature self-reliant, secretive, insecure, competitive, sensitive and suspicious. They have sprawling egos and high self-regard.”

 

That isn’t even half of it. Numerous passages are devoted to rivalries, feuds, conspiracies, squabbling, bullying and jostling for position. Of the paper’s executive editors during the book’s time frame, Nagourney describes Max Frankel as the “not-Abe” (Rosenthal, his predecessor) and Bill Keller as the “not-Howell” (Raines, his predecessor). But why stop there? Raines more or less defined himself against his predecessor, Joseph Lelyveld, who, he said, had made the paper boring. Jill Abramson, who succeeded Keller, appears to have detested Raines, who frequently criticized her when she served as Washington bureau chief under him, while Dean Baquet, Abramson’s successor, famously punched his fist against a wall out of fury with her.

 

 

The New York Times’s executive editor Bill Keller at the newspaper’s headquarters in 2009,

announcing a 5 percent pay cut for most employees. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times