Accuracy in Media

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet chided The Washington Post over its new masthead slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” as something that sounds more like it belongs in a Batman movie and not on the front page of a leading newspaper: “’I love our competition with The Washington Post,’ he said. ‘I think it’s […]

New York Times public editor Liz Spayd criticized the newspaper on Saturday for preaching diversity, but not practicing it in the newsroom: “The Times can be relentless in questioning the diversity at other institutions; it has written about the white ranks of the technology sector, public schools, police departments, Oscar nominees, law firms, legislatures, the […]

After joining with the rest of the liberal media to try and defeat Donald Trump, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger issued a memo to the newsroom via email that President-elect Donald Trump would be covered “fairly” and “without bias:” Dear Colleagues, As we close one of the most momentous weeks in our nation’s recent […]

In an interview with the Financial Times, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet called out Fox News and CNN for pandering to a particular audience in their coverage of Donald Trump, saying that they were “bad for democracy and those institutions” in the long run. Baquet criticized CNN for hiring former Trump campaign manager […]

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet issued a memo on Tuesday in which he admitted that last year’s buyouts hurt the company in many ways. But he vowed to fix those things in 2015: By any measure, 2014 was a dramatic year — a sudden leadership change ending with the departure of treasured colleagues. […]

Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, is fairly confident that despite difficult conditions in the newspaper industry, the Times will survive: I’m actually not that worried about the future of The New York Times. If you produce a news product that is worthwhile and worth saving, which is my goal, I think we’ll […]

In a move that shocked the newspaper world yesterday, The New York Times fired executive editor Jill Abramson and replaced her with managing editor Dean Baquet. Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. informed the staff of the changes at a quickly assembled meeting, citing “an issue with management in the newsroom” as the reason for […]

For the second time in less than a week, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has taken the paper to task for its reporting. This time Sullivan is wondering what has happened to real news at the Times: It’s a Monday morning in mid-January. Your print edition of the Times is at hand, along […]

According to a report in Inside Climate News, The New York Times will dismantle its environment desk and reassign the remaining reporters and editors to other departments. Two positions are being eliminated and, at this point, the future of the Green Blog is uncertain. Managing editor for news operations Dean Baquet said it was a “structural matter,” and […]

Libya may be in the news, but for the editors of The New York Times, the Congressional hearings on Wednesday weren’t newsworthy enough to merit front-page coverage, and that didn’t sit well with the Times’ new public editor, Margaret Sullivan. Sullivan, who replaced Arthur Brisbane in September, noted in her new column that both The Wall […]