Two years ago a scandal involving a rogue reporter called Jayson Blair plunged the New York Times into a crisis that triggered the removal of its editor, his deputy and a painful period of self-examination. Now the Times faces another scandal involving another favoured reporter and is enduring a similar bout of self-criticism. Some media critics and even Times staff members fear the fall-out could...
NEW YORK -- With a ferociousness usually reserved for presidents caught lying to the public, the journalism world has turned on The New York Times and its reporter Judith Miller, who only weeks ago was being lauded for going to jail to protect a source. A few media critics and academics suggested Monday that the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter should be fired for her actions covering the search...
WASHINGTON -- The anguish among New York Times staffers over the paper's handling of the Judith Miller saga has mounted in recent days, much to the consternation of its top executives. "Of course I'm concerned by the very palpable frustration in the newsroom," Executive Editor Bill Keller said yesterday. "I share it. It's excruciating to have a story and not be able to tell it, and annoying to be...
In July 2003, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador, created a firestorm by publishing an essay in The New York Times that accused the Bush administration of using faulty intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. The administration, he charged, ignored findings of a secret mission he had undertaken for the Central Intelligence Agency - findings, he said, that undermined claims that Iraq was...
In a notebook belonging to Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, amid notations about Iraq and nuclear weapons, appear two small words: "Valerie Flame." Ms. Miller should have written Valerie Plame. That name is at the core of a federal grand jury investigation that has reached deep into the White House. At issue is whether Bush administration officials leaked the identity of Ms. Plame...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under pressure from prosecutors, a New York Times reporter testified on Wednesday to a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity about a previously undisclosed conversation with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney. In her second appearance before the grand jury, Times reporter Judith Miller was questioned for more than an hour after turning...
NEW YORK: In the 11 days since Judith Miller left jail after agreeing to testify before a federal grand jury about her sources, many of the facts in the case have yet to come out. But one thing is clear: Her newspaper, The New York Times, has had very little to say about her role in the Plame/CIA leak case, and has been regularly scooped by other papers on the latest twists in her involvement. The...
Ten communications unions representing a million workers are banding together to provide a united front in the face of "rapid media consolidation and massive technological shifts." That will include organizing, collective bargaining, and pushing for public policy. And in a separate move, one of those guilds, the Writers Guild of America East, joined with its West Coast counterpart Thursday to mend...
LONDON - The Wall Street Journal is publishing an eight-page guide to the compact version of its European and Asian editions, which launch later this month. The guide, which will be published on Monday October 10, will explain the new format to readers of the paper's international editions and is being produced in the same format as the new compact version. It will contain many of the design...
The warm tone of the letter from White House insider Lewis "Scooter" Libby to Judith Miller of the New York Times conveyed an essential reality of reporter-source relationships, which we in the media sometimes tend to play down: These are often relationships between like-minded people who care about the same issues and who become -- dare I say it? -- friendly. "Your reporting, and you, are missed...
