Read more New York Times stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/529/new-york-times.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:28:28 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73589/times-star-sorkin-too-cozy-with-wall-street.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAndrew Ross Sorkin isn't the only entrepreneurial writer in the New York Times stable, but he might be the most successful, with his DealBook blog and newsletter, his Times column, and now his bestseller, Too Big to Fail making him ubiquitous in the media these days. “It’s hard to overstate...http://www.newser.com/story/73589/times-star-sorkin-too-cozy-with-wall-street.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 12:21:26 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72054/new-york-times-to-cut-100-newsroom-jobs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn an effort to continue cutting costs, the New York Times will eliminate 100 jobs from its 1,300-person newsroom. The paper will offer buyouts before instituting layoffs if necessary, executive editor Bill Keller said in an email to his staff. The move comes on the heels of an across-the-board...http://www.newser.com/story/72054/new-york-times-to-cut-100-newsroom-jobs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Oct 2009 16:17:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71944/nyt-reporter-recounts-7-months-as-prisoner.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNew York Times reporter David Rohde begins a gripping first-person account of his 7 months as a Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan before he managed to escape. In the first of the five-part series, he writes of his capture ("I waited for the sound of gunfire. I knew I might die...http://www.newser.com/story/71944/nyt-reporter-recounts-7-months-as-prisoner.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 17 Oct 2009 17:05:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71789/pulitzer-winner-nan-robertson-dead-at-83.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Nan Robertson died yesterday at 83, apparently of heart disease. Robertson is best known for a vivid recounting of her battle with toxic shock syndrome in the Times Magazine , which netted her the Pulitzer in 1983, and The Girls in the Balcony , a book...http://www.newser.com/story/71789/pulitzer-winner-nan-robertson-dead-at-83.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 13:20:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70601/safire-was-no-nattering-nabob-of-negativism-dowd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBill Safire, to use the phrase he coined, was anything but a "nattering nabob of negativity," writes his New York Times "colleague in columny" Maureen Dowd. The former Nixon speechwriter—who once told Dowd he had been frozen out by the Times ' liberal writers until he saved a drowning...http://www.newser.com/story/70601/safire-was-no-nattering-nabob-of-negativism-dowd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 7:20:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70401/leakers-have-agendas-that-journos-hide.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn the past few days the New York Times and Washington Post broke three major stories with the help of leaks: John Edwards' readiness to declare paternity, Stanley McChrystal's blunt assessment of the Afghanistan war, and Barack Obama's intervention in the New York governor's race. For Post media columnist Howard...http://www.newser.com/story/70401/leakers-have-agendas-that-journos-hide.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 7:58:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70394/times-columnist-william-safire-dead-at-79.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist William Safire died today outside Washington, the paper reports. He was 79 and suffered from cancer. A onetime speechwriter for Richard Nixon, Safire, a self-described "libertarian conservative," used his background as a reporter and love for English usage to punch up his op-ed column,...http://www.newser.com/story/70394/times-columnist-william-safire-dead-at-79.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 27 Sep 2009 13:54:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69731/ivy-league-crimes-are-more-equal-than-others.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe killing of Yale grad student Annie Le dominated headlines around the world, "but every murder is uniquely dramatic," Jack Shafer writes for Slate. Why this one? It involves a magic word. "Three murders at a Midwestern college equal one murder at Harvard or Yale," Shafer calculates. "If you kill...http://www.newser.com/story/69731/ivy-league-crimes-are-more-equal-than-others.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 14:49:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69631/student-loan-bill-a-no-brainer-that-actually-might-pass.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor health reform watchers despairing that lawmakers "will never be able to do anything, ever," it's time to turn an eye on the no-brainer student loan reform in the House, Gail Collins writes in the New York Times . Right now, the government gives banks money, pays them to lend it...http://www.newser.com/story/69631/student-loan-bill-a-no-brainer-that-actually-might-pass.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 17 Sep 2009 9:10:00 CDT