Hard News

by Seth Mnookin

  Hagan, Joe. “Hurling Your Basic Rock at the Arty Crowd.” The New York Times. August 12, 2001. Section 2, p. 25.

  ———. “The Blair Pitch Project.” The New York Observer. May 26, 2003. p. 1.

  ———. “Raines Talk Show Is Deconstructed by Times Staff.” The New York Observer. July 21, 2003. p. 1.

  Hammond, Margo, and Ellen Heltzel. “The Plot Thickens at The New York Times Book Review.” Online Posting. Poynter Online—Book Babes. January 21, 2004. Available at www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=57&aid=59576.

  Hancock, Noelle. “Fake Newsman Speaks Truth.” The New York Observer. May 19, 2003. p. 3.

  Hardball. Interview with Jayson Blair by Chris Matthews. MSNBC. Air date, March 11, 2004. Transcript no. 031100cb.461. Available at www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4514639.

  Harris, Leon. “Howell Raines Discusses Introspection in Fly Fishing.” CNN. December 3, 1993.

  Harris, Paul. “ ‘Betrayal’ by Literary Bible.” The Observer (London). February 8, 2004. p. 20.

  Harwood, Richard. “Incivility: Sparks Fly in Debate over Propriety of ‘Civic Journalism.’ ” The Ledger. March 12, 1996. p. A9.

  Haslanger, Phil. “Tales of Fishing and Aging.” Capital Times. May 13, 1994. p. 7A.

  Henry, William A. “A Head of the Times.” Time. April 18, 1994. p. 66.

  Hernandez, Macarena. “Valley Mom Awaits News of MIA Son.” San Antonio Express-News. April 18, 2003. p. A1.

  ———. “National Betrayal.” San Antonio Express-News. June 1, 2003. p. H1.

  ———. “What Jayson Blair Stole from Me, and Why I Couldn’t Ignore It.” The Washington Post. June 1, 2003. p. B5.

  Hirschhorn, Larry. “The Fall of Howell Raines and The New York Times: A Study in the Moralization of Organizational Life.” Lecture given to the Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society (OPUS) Conference. London, November 21, 2003.

  Hoagland, Edward. “Happily Casting for the One That Will Get Away.” The New York Times. October 5, 1993. p. C17.

  “Hold Off the Republican Dobermans.” Editorial. The New York Times. January 20, 1993. p. A20.

  Holson, Laura M., and Alex Kuczynski. “Schoolyard Superstar Aims for a Second Act, as an Adult.” The New York Times. October 6, 2002. p. A1.

  House, David. “Yanking Up the Weeds of Journalism.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram. March 28, 2004. p. 1E.

  “Howell Raines and the New York Times.” Editorial. The New York Observer. May 26, 2003. p. 4.

  Hubler, Shawn. “A Fight Is Brewing: Effort to Make ‘Politically Correct’ Coffee Berkeley’s Only Choice Has Caused Quite a Stir.” Los Angeles Times. July 3, 2002. Section 5, p. 1.

  Ibarguen, Diego. “New York Times Bars Free-lance Author.” Associated Press. February 21, 2002.

  ———. “N.Y. Times Wins Record 7 Pulitzers.” Associated Press. April 8, 2002.

  Italie, Hillel. “Jayson Blair, Former New York Times Reporter, Has Book Deal.” Associated Press. September 10, 2003.

  Johnson, Peter. “Times’ Execs Address Blair Scandal: Questions of Favoritism, Dishonesty at Closed Meeting.” USA Today. May 15, 2003. p. 7D.

  ———. “USA Today to Review All of Reporter’s Work.” USA Today. January 16, 2004. p. 3A.

  ———. “Panel to Review Former USA Today Reporter’s Work.” USA Today. January 30, 2004. p. 3A.

  Jones, Alex S. “Journal Says a Reporter Is Under S.E.C. Inquiry.” The New York Times. March 30, 1984. p. D1.

  Jurkowitz, Mark. “Admitting Fabrications, Globe Columnist Resigns.” The Boston Globe. June 19, 1998. p. A1.

  Kalb, Marvin. One Scandalous Story. New York: Free Press, 2001.

  Kaus, Mickey. Blog entries, November 2002–July 2003. Online Postings. Kausfiles. Available at www.slate.com.

  Keller, Bill. “Mr. Diversity.” The New York Times. June 28, 2003. p. A15.

  Kelly, Keith J. “A Blair Tell-All Could Net $1M.” New York Post. May 14, 2003. p. 34.

  ———. “Times Gal: I Didn’t Aid Beau Blair.” New York Post. May 17, 2003. p. 4.

  ———. “Sulzberger Holding D.C. Staff Summit.” New York Post. June 3, 2003. p. 35.

  ———. “Interim Boss Vows: Times a-Changin’.” New York Post. June 7, 2003. p. 9.

  ———. “Keller an Inside Fave to Run Times Newsroom.” New York Post. June 11, 2003. p. 32.

  ———. “Media Critic McGowan Cashes in with Blair Book Project.” New York Post. June 27, 2003. p. 46.

  ———. “Times Brass Puts Leash on Miller.” New York Post. June 29, 2003. p. 29.

  ———. “Inside Scoop Has Keller Winning Exec Editor Job.” New York Post. July 6, 2003. p. 27.

  ———. “Boston Globe’s Baron at Times as Contest for Editor Heats Up.” New York Post. July 10, 2003. p. 35.

  ———. “Book and Boss; Blair Tome Deal, Editor Pick May Hit at Same Time” New York Post. July 13, 2003. p. 33.

  ———. “The Worst of Times: In-House Report Blasts Management Culture.” New York Post. July 31, 2003. p. 31.

  Kelly, Keith J., and Dan Mangan. “All the News Not Fit to Print—Times in Mutiny over Bosses’ ‘Whitewash.’ ” New York Post. May 13, 2003. p. 4.

  ———. “Times Weighs Correction to Mega Apology.” New York Post. May 28, 2003. p. 38.

  ———. “Will Pulitzer Winner Brag in His Walking ‘Paper’?” New York Post. June 6, 2003. p. 46.

  ———. “Pinch on the Spot: Times Publisher Faces Wrath of Family Staff.” New York Post. June 7, 2003. p. 21.

  Kelly, Keith J., Dan Mangan, and Todd Venezia. “The Times Madman: Colleagues Blast Blair’s Q&A Insults.” New York Post. May 22, 2003. p. 5.

  ———. “Blair Says ‘Sorry’ as His Ex-Bosses Fall.” New York Post. June 6, 2003. p. 4.

  ———. “Times Up for Raines’ Reign: Top Editor & No. 2 Quit amid Story-Fake Scandal.” New York Post. June 6, 2003. p. 5.

  Kirkpatrick, David D. “Hollywood Publisher Seeks Bankruptcy After Losing Suit.” The New York Times. September 11, 2003. p. C5.

  Kissinger, Henry A. “Our Intervention in Iraq.” The Washington Post. August 12, 2002. p. A15.

  Kolbert, Elizabeth. “Tumult in the Newsroom.” The New Yorker. June 30, 2003. pp. 42ff.

  Koningsberg, Eric. “Times Pulpit: More Taste, Less Filling.” The New York Observer. July 26, 1993.

  “Konrad Kujau.” The Times (London). September 14, 2000. Features.

  Kosterlitz, Julie. “The Times’s Prescription.” National Journal. January 9, 1993. p. 82.

  Krantz, Michael. “Still Setting America’s Agenda; Special Report; Newspapers.” MediaWeek. April 25, 1994. p. 22.

  Krauthammer, Charles. “Kidnapped by the Times.” The Washington Post. August 18, 2002. p. B7.

  Kugler, Sara. “New York Times Finds Two Errors in Wider Probe of Free-lance Author’s Stories.” Associated Press. April 15, 2002.

  Kurtz, Howard. “Talking Tough at The Times: Howell Raines’s Editorials Don’t Finesse with Politesse.” The Washington Post. May 10, 1993. p. B1.

  ———. “Parting Shot.” (“Media Notes.”) The Washington Post. June 28, 1993. p. B1.

  ———. “Outsiders with the Inside Edge.” The Washington Post. January 6, 1994. p. C1.

  ———. “Roberts Rules; Hard Driving Times Editor Collides with Entrenched Ways.” June 30, 1995. p. D1.

  ———. “N.Y. Times Names Keller to Top Post.” The Washington Post. May 23, 1997. p. B4.

  ———. “Stranger Than Fiction: The Cautionary Tale of Magazine Writer Stephen Glass.” The Washington Post. May 13, 1998. p. A1.

  ———. “Under Pressure, Boston Globe Keeps Barnicle.” The Washington Post. August 12, 1998. p. D1.

  ———. “As The Globe Turns.” The Washington Post. August 25, 1998. p. C1.

  ———. “The Gray Lady’s Colorful Chief: New Executive Editor Howell Raines Elicits Strong Opinions.” The Washington Post. September 6, 2001. p. C1.

  ———. “New York Time
s Story Gives Texas Paper Sense of Déjà Vu; San Antonio Editor Cites ‘Damning’ Similarity.” The Washington Post. April 30, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “Reporter Resigns over Copied Story.” The Washington Post. May 2, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “More Reporting by Times Writer Called Suspect; Parents of Two Other Soldiers, Attorney in Sniper Case Say They Never Spoke to Blair.” The Washington Post. May 8, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “Disgraced Reporter’s Deceptions Date to ’99; As Intern, Blair ‘Interviewed’ D.C. Mayor.” The Washington Post. May 10, 2003. p. C3.

  ———. “N.Y. Times Uncovers Dozens of Faked Stories by Reporter.” The Washington Post. May 11, 2003. p. A1.

  ———. “To the Editors: How Could This Happen?; NY Times Staff, Execs in ‘Painful and Honest’ Meeting over Plagiarism Fiasco.” The Washington Post. May 15, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “Blair Book Proposal Lashes Out at Paper.” The Washington Post. May 24, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “Intra-Times Battle over Iraqi Weapons.” The Washington Post. May 26, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “Suspended N.Y. Times Reporter Says He’ll Quit; Rick Bragg Decries ‘Poisonous Atmosphere.’ ” The Washington Post. May 27, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “Rick Bragg Quits at New York Times; Departure Follows Comments That Roiled Scandal-Shaken Newsroom.” The Washington Post. May 29, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “N.Y. Times Defends Its Reporting Methods.” The Washington Post. May 30, 2003. p. C4.

  ———. “Bylines, Datelines and Fault Lines at the N.Y. Times.” The Washington Post. June 2, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “Times Editor’s Tough Style Left Him Few Staff Allies.” The Washington Post. June 6, 2003. p. A12.

  ———. “Howell Raines’s Tenure: It Left a Nasty Mark.” The Washington Post. June 9, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “Raines Says He Was Asked to Resign at N.Y. Times.” The Washington Post. July 12, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “Newsroom Favorite Bill Keller Named Times’ Top Editor.” The Washington Post. July 15, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “N.Y. Times to Appoint Ombudsman; Paper Acts After Task Force Decries Newsroom Culture That Helped Foster Scandal.” The Washington Post. July 31, 2003. p. C1.

  ———. “Tight-Lipped Editors Irk USA Today Staffers.” The Washington Post. January 9, 2004. p. C3.

  ———. “Fear and Lying at USA Today.” The Washington Post. January 11, 2004. p. A1.

  Kurtz, Howard, and Pamela Ferdinand. “Mike Barnicle Forced out at Boston Globe.” The Washington Post. August 20, 1998. p. B1.

  Larry King Live. “Howell Raines on the Art of Aging Gracefully.” Interview with Howell Raines. CNN. Air date, November 25, 1993.

  ———. Interview with Jayson Blair. CNN. Air date, March 9, 2004.

  Layton, Charles. “Miller Brouhaha.” American Journalism Review. August–September 2003. p. 30.

  LeDuff, Charlie. Work and Other Sins. New York: Penguin, 2004.

  Lemann, Nicholas. “The Wayward Press.” The New Yorker. March 15, 2004. p. 136.

  Levine, Robert. “The Season Finale That Isn’t a Season Finale.” The New York Times. May 23, 2004. Section 2, p. 17.

  Lewis, Harry. “NY Times Taps Gerald Boyd as Its New Managing Editor.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. July 27, 2001. p. A1.

  Lieberman, David. “Changing of the Guard at ‘N.Y. Times.’ ” USA Today. April 8, 1994. p. B1.

  “Los Angeles Times Cuts About 160 Jobs.” Los Angeles Times. June 22, 2004. p. C2.

  Lyons, Nick. “ ‘It’s Not About Catching Fish.’ ” The New York Times Book Review. September 19, 1993. Section 7, p. 7.

  MacCormack, John. “Missing & Presumed Dead.” San Antonio Express-News. December 28, 1999. p. A1.

  Malcolm, Janet. The Journalist and the Murderer. New York: Knopf, 1990.

  Mangan, Dan. “Former Times Liar Battles Coke: Mags.” New York Post. May 19, 2003. p. 4.

  Martin, Jurek. “Passing the Baton at New York Times.” Financial Times. April 11, 1994.

  Massing, Michael. “Now They Tell Us.” The New York Review of Books. February 26, 2004. pp. 43ff.

  ———. “Unfit to Print?” The New York Review of Books. June 24, 2004. pp. 6ff.

  McFadden, Robert D. “Lelyveld Will Succeed Frankel as The Times’s Executive Editor.” The New York Times. April 8, 1994. p. A1.

  ———. “Times Names Raines as Successor to Lelyveld as Executive Editor.” The New York Times. May 22, 2001. p. A1.

  McGee, Celia. “For Vet Newsman, The Times Is Right.” New York Daily News. November 5, 1999. p. 52.

  McGeveran, Tom. “After Moss Departure, Times Starting Over on Book Review Boss.” The New York Observer. March 1, 2004. p. 1.

  McNamara, Robert S., and Brian VanDeMark (contributor). In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of the Vietnam War. New York: Crown Publishers, 1995.

  Mergerson, Chris. “God Attracts 62 Students and 4 Teachers.” Centreville Sentinel. September 22, 1993. p. 2.

  Miller, Judith, Stephen Engelberg, and William J. Broad. Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

  Miller, Judith, et al. “ ‘Now They Tell Us’: An Exchange.” Letters to the Editor. The New York Review of Books. March 25, 2004. p. 45.

  Mnookin, Seth. “Bill Keller, Passed Over for Top Spot at New York Times, Has ‘Pig-in-Shit’ New Gig.” Inside.com. June 19, 2001.

  ———. “Gerald Boyd Named New York Times Managing Editor—First African-American in the Job.” Inside.com. June 26, 2001.

  ———. “Philosopher King Is Out at the New York Times, as Southern Pol Settles In.” Inside.com. September 5, 2001.

  ———. “Hard Raines.” New York. February 18, 2002. p. 31.

  ———. “The Times Backs Down: Anderson and Araton Pieces on Augusta Will Be Published This Weekend.” Newsweek.com Web Exclusive. December 6, 2002.

  ———. “The Changing ‘Times.’ ” Newsweek. December 9, 2002. p. 46.

  ———. “A Week to Remember in Memphis.” Newsweek.com Web Exclusive. May 6, 2003.

  ———. “What’s Race Got to Do with It?” Newsweek.com Web Exclusive. May 13, 2003.

  ———. “A Widening Scandal?” Newsweek.com Web Exclusive. May 15, 2003.

  ———. “A Journalist’s Hard Fall.” Newsweek. May 19, 2003. p. 40.

  ———. “More Trouble at the Times.” Newsweek.com Web Exclusive. May 23, 2003.

  ———. “Firestorm in the Newsroom: The Times’s National Staff Defends Their Reporting Methods.” Newsweek.com Web Exclusive. May 28, 2003.

  ———. “A Sorry Sight.” Newsweek.com Web Exclusive. June 4, 2003.

  ———. “Shake-up at the New York Times.” Newsweek.com Web Exclusive. June 5, 2003.

  ———. “Handicapping the Race at the Times.” Newsweek.com Web Exclusive. June 11, 2003.

  ———. “Read All About It.” Newsweek. June 16, 2003. p. 34.

  ———. “New Editor at Times.” Newsweek.com Web Exclusive. July 14, 2003.

  ———. “ ‘Let’s Move On.’ ” Newsweek.com Web Exclusive. July 16, 2003.

  Mnookin, Seth, with Suzanne Smalley, Rebecca Sinderbrand, Martha Brant, Holly Bailey, Pat Wingert, Jonathan Alter, Howard Fineman, and Brian Braiker. “Times Bomb.” Newsweek. May 26, 2003. p. 40.

  Morrison, Blake. “USA Today Reporter Resigns After Deception.” USA Today. January 13, 2004. p. 5A.

  ———. “Ex–USA Today Reporter Faked Major Stories.” USA Today. March 19, 2004. p. 1A.

  “Most of Reporter’s Articles Had Problems, New York Times Says.” Orlando Sentinel. May 11, 2003. p. A22.

  Mott, Frank Luther. American Journalism: A History of Newspapers in the United States Through 250 Years, 1690–1940. New York: Routledge, 2000.

  “Mr. Clinton, Meet Mr. Gore.” Editorial. The New York Times. April 20, 1993. p. A28.

  “Mr. Clinton’s Captious Critics.” Editorial. The New Yo
rk Times. February 23, 1993. p. A20.

  “Mr. McNamara’s War.” Editorial. The New York Times. April 12, 1995. p. A24.

  Nasaw, David. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

  Neal, Terry M. “Don’t Blame Diversity.” Editorial. The Washington Post. May 15, 2003. p. A29.

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  “New Appointments for 2 Editors at Times.” The New York Times. October 29, 2003. p. A16.

  The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. “The Search for Truth.” Reported by Terence Smith. PBS. Air date, May 9, 2003. Transcript available at www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june03/blair_05-09.htm.

  “The New York Times Announces Howell Raines to Become Executive Editor.” Press Release, the New York Times Company. May 21, 2001.

  “The New York Times Chooses New Editor for the Metro Section.” The New York Times. October 17, 2003. p. B3.

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  “New York Times: Ex-Reporter Faces Fraud Inquiry.” Available at www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/05/13/ny.times.investigation/index.htm. May 13, 2003.

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  Nieves, Evelyn. “Freed from Jail Despite His Pleas, 92-Year-Old Is Found Dead in a River.” The New York Times. July 12, 2002. p. A12.

  Noah, Timothy. “Howell Agonistes.” Available at www.slate.com/id/1000276. December 17, 1998.

  ———. “The Deadly Dozen.” George. May 1999. p. 88.

  ———. “Two More Cheers for the NYT.” Available at www.slate.com/id/1006159. September 28, 2000.

  “Now Blair Has Girlfriend Woes.” New York Post. June 6, 2003. p. 12.

  O’Briant, Don. “Raines Reels in the Years.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. October 17, 1993. p. M1.

  O’Brien, Sinead. “Secrets and Lies.” American Journalism Review. September 1998. p. 40.

  Okrent, Daniel. “Weapons of Mass Destruction? Or Mass Distraction?” The New York Times. May 30, 2004. Section 4, p. 2.

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