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Agi Mishol

In his New York Times book review of Look There (2006), Joel Brouwer wrote: "Mishol... takes up political subjects with a sly delicacy reminiscent of the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska’s best work".

Andrew Cockburn

Apart from his books he has written for National Geographic, Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, CounterPunch, Condé Nast Traveler, New York Times, and the Dungarvan Observer.

Baghdad Bulletin

The newspaper had a full-time reporting pool of Iraqis and Westerners, many of whom were young Oxbridge graduates who had previously written for Associated Press, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters and the Evening Standard.

Bobby Ray Inman

During the press conference, Inman made angry remarks about comments by New York Times columnist William Safire.

BSAA Star Tiger disappearance

Coningham's death shared the front page of the 31 January edition of the New York Times along with the news of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the death of Orville Wright.

Charles Herold

He wrote the "Game Theory" video game review column for the New York Times from 2000 to 2008, when he left the Times to become the Wii Games Guide at About.com.

Christine Mayo

The New York Times reviewed the movie unfavorably, comparing it to a discarded Daisy Ashford effort.

Collective for Living Cinema

Many people affiliated with the Collective for Living Cinema were or have gone on to be quite influential in media, such the late Alf Bold, the former programmer of the Arsenal Kino in Berlin, Judith Shulevitz, the columnist for the New York Times and Slate, and John Sloss, the attorney and film producer who has produced more than 40 films, including Far From Heaven, Before Sunset, Personal Velocity, and The Fog of War.

Community Financial Services Association of America

The payday lending industry has been the source of ongoing controversy due to its lobbying tactics and industry practices that New York Times chief financial correspondent Floyd Norris bluntly calls predatory lending.

Concord Monitor

While 2008 was the first year the Monitor or one of its staff won a Pulitzer, the paper has a number of alums who have been honored, including Jo Becker, of the New York Times and Steven Pearlstein, of the Washington Post, both of whom also won the award in 2008.

Contemporary Jewish Museum

Edward Rothstein of the New York Times criticizes the museum for its dedication to “multiple perspectives and open-mindedness…without a grounding in knowledge, without history, detail, object and belief.”

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

In a New York Times interview, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago stated that he wants to make Chicago the “most immigrant-friendly city in the country;” in addition to offering in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants, he has also made plans for an ordinance that would prevent undocumented immigrants with no criminal background from being turned over to immigration enforcement agencies.

Double Fold

Christened the "Erin Brockovich of the library world" by the New York Times, Baker is not shy about placing blame on the custodians of the nation's heritage and intellect: "The library has gone astray partly because we trusted the librarians so completely." (p. 104).

Emerson Combat Systems

New York Times bestselling author David Morrell underwent training in Emerson Combat Systems as research for several of his books about Special Operations and close quarters combat.

Gerrit Henry

Henry published feature and critical articles in After Dark, Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Art International, The Spectator, and The New Republic.

Helvidius Priscus

Senator Robert Byrd was quoted in the New York Times on November 20, 2002 referencing Helvidius Priscus.

Hugh Raffles

His writing has appeared in academic and popular venues, including Granta, Public Culture, Natural History, Orion, American Ethnologist, the New York Times, and The Best American Essays.

HumorFeed

The awards panel for the first two years included a range of noted humorists and journalists including Andrew Marlatt of SatireWire, John Markoff of the New York Times, Robert Zelnick of Boston University, Eric Weiner of National Public Radio, and Madeleine Begun Kane of "Mad Kane's Humor & Satire".

International Size Acceptance Association

Despite being of relatively small size, ISAA has managed to pull media attention, being mentioned by Yomiuri, CNN, Los Angeles Times, TIME Magazine, Fox News, and the New York Times.

Jeff Gunther

As an early adopter of ROWE, his approach to employee engagement was covered in Daniel Pink's latest book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Jennifer Damiano

In his review in the New York Times following the 2009 Broadway opening, Ben Brantley observed, "The notion that personality is fragile, always on the edge of decomposition, is exquisitely reflected in Ms. Damiano’s astringent, poignant Natalie".

Joseph Carl Breil

An article in The New York Times, dated 12 June 1914, noted that he "...will conduct the orchestra at the Illinois Theatre, Chicago, during the engagement of the second presentation of Gabriele D'Annunzio's Cabiria, which opens on Thursday night."

Larry Correia

The sequel, Monster Hunter Vendetta, was a New York Times bestseller.

Maggie O'Kane

In its first three years, her company made 30 films – mostly for television – including the Baghdad Blogger reports, featuring Baghdad resident 'Salam Pax' – whose blog Where is Raed? was printed in The Guardian and New York Times during the occupation of his city.

Marcy Darnovsky

She has appeared on television and radio, and has also been cited by numerous sources, including ABC news, Associated Press, Nature, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Wired Science

Mobil Showcase Network

A Mobil Oil media expert, Herb Schmertz, wrote canned paid "editorials" placed into newspapers like the New York Times opinion-editorial page.

Morris Schwartz

He started in the New York Times in 1922, staying with the paper until 1926, when he moved to the Jewish Daily Forward, where he was a staff photographer until 1931.

News propaganda

A New York Times editorial (March 16, 2005) entitled "And now, the counterfeit news" affirms that at least 20 U.S. federal agencies, like the Department of Defense and the U.S. Census Bureau, produced and distributed hundreds of TV news reports since 2001 that were aired as if they were produced by the media.

No-knead bread

New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman described Lahey's method in his November 8, 2006 column The Minimalist.

Numeracy

Max Frankel, former executive editor of the New York Times, argues that "deploying numbers skillfully is as important to communication as deploying verbs".

Palisades Center

New York Times writer Joe Queenan criticized the mall's Brutalist exterior for lacking any sense of design or theme, and characterized its rectangular layout as "a series of interlocking coffins".

Past exonerative

The "past exonerative" tense is a witticism coined by William Schneider of the New York Times to describe the rhetorical tactic of speaking in the passive voice in order to distance oneself from blame.

Patriot Reign

Patriot Reign is a best-selling book by Boston Globe/New York Times sports writer Michael Holley resulting from two years he was given unprecedented access to the inner sanctums of the world champion New England Patriots football operations, as they worked to turn a season of good luck into a legitimate contender of a team.

Paul O. Husting

The New York Times described him as "the most aggressive leader" of the "loyalist" (i.e., supportive of Woodrow Wilson's pro-Allied policies) forces in Wisconsin, and contrasted him with "Senator La Follette and the pro-German constituency behind him".

Pride of the Bimbos

New York Times reviewer Raymond Sokolov called the book "an oddly unsettling satire of American machismo".

Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

1976: Sydney H. Schanberg, New York Times, "for his coverage of the Communist takeover in Cambodia, carried out at great risk when he elected to stay at his post after the fall of Phnom Penh."

Raymond Workman

Widely known by the nickname "Sonny," his competitiveness was such that the Chicago Tribune called him a "riding demon" and the New York Times called him a "bulldog in silks."

Rhino Times

The newspaper features editorial columns by noted science fiction and fantasy author and Mormon Orson Scott Card and local investigative reporting by New York Times best-selling author Jerry Bledsoe.

Richard Sandomir

Richard Sandomir is an award-winning sports and television columnist for the New York Times and author of several books including Bald Like Me: The Hair-Raising Adventures of Baldman and The Englightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything.

Rule of the Bone

Some critics, such as Michiko Kakutani for the New York Times, describe the book as descending from other novels about rebellious teens, such as J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn New York Times review, May 19, 1995.

Scott C. Johnson

His writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy, New York Times, BuzzFeed, Guernica Magazine, Granta and various other outlets.

Shadow of Night

Shadow of Night was first published in hardcover on July 10, 2012 by Penguin Books, becoming a New York Times Best Seller upon its release.

Sports rating system

Some older computer systems still in use today include: Jeff Sagarin's systems, the New York Times system, and the Dunkel Index, which dates back to 1929.

The Book of Truth and Facts

The booklet was written in response to an article entitled “Germans as Exponents of Culture” penned by Brander Matthews, which appeared in the September 20, 1914 edition of the New York Times2.

The National Debutante Cotillion and Thanksgiving Ball

The ball is the subject of the 1989 documentary film Coming Out, in his review of which the New York Times critic Vincent Canby stated that it has "little to do with the kind of old-fashioned 'coming out' rituals and debutante 'seasons' that once so fascinated the social outsiders Scott Fitzgerald wrote about" and that "the escorts for the ball are ... bussed in from nearby military camps and from West Point with the promise of a free meal".

The Slugger's Wife

A New York Times review of March 28, 1985 written by Janet Maslin began: "It's a shock to find Neil Simon's name attached to something as resoundingly unfunny as this."

The Towerlight

Brian Stelter - New York Times reporter; he served as The Towerlight's editor-in-chief from 2005 to 2007.

Village Voice Media

Until 2012, Goldman Sachs owned 16% of Village Voice Media, but sold its shares soon after Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times publicized the fact and began asking them questions about its stake.

Voice of San Diego

In November 2008, New York Times media writer Richard Pérez-Peña profiled Voice of San Diego and more generally, the nonprofit journalism model.

War and Decision

He also deplored the failure of major newspapers to mention the book, reporting that "the excellent James Risen" has written an article about it that the New York Times has never published.


see also

1941 World Series

Meyer Berger of The New York Times, then its local color reporter, covered the events in "Casey in the Box", a poem derived from the 1888 classic "Casey at the Bat".

1953 Iranian coup d'état

In a related story, The New York Times reporter James Risen penned a story revealing that Wilber's report, hidden for nearly five decades, had recently come to light.

2 Columbus Circle

May 2005 – Nicolai Ouroussoff, chief architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote, "Representing a pivotal moment in architecture's eventual turn from mainstream Modernism, the Stone building's modest scale and concave facade are a gentle counterpoint to the new Time Warner Center's bland gigantism.

Alfred Balk

Among other prominent articles, for The Reader’s Digest he reported on nursing-home neglect, threats to public parkland, Great Lakes water problems, boating-boom safety hazards, and Thomas Edison remembered by a son; for The Reporter, the social significance of Ebony magazine founder John Johnson’s success; and for The New York Times Magazine, the “Dust Bowl” revisited.

Arthur Pember

Mr. Pember died on 3 April 1886 in LaMoure, North Dakota according to an obituary note in the 4 April 1886 edition of the New York Times.

Balboa Bay Resort

The Balboa Bay Resort is well known as a prime viewing location for the annual Newport Beach Christmas boat parade, hailed as “one of the top ten holiday happenings in the nation” by the New York Times.

Charles J. Shields

“This biography will not disappoint those who loved the novel and the feisty, independent, fiercely loyal Scout, in whom Harper Lee put so much of herself,” wrote Garrison Keillor in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

CIA activities in Afghanistan

HRW said The New York Times, in January 1991, said Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Robert Kimmitt had "battled with CIA officials who would like to unleash the guerrillas in Afghanistan in one last effort," while United States Secretary of State James Baker worked to "coax the rebels and the Najibullah regime into democratic elections."

Collegiate Network

CN alumni include the editor of National Review Rich Lowry, CNN and ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, and best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza.

David Corn

In the Washington Post, Roger Warner called it "an impressive feat of research"; but, in the New York Times, Joseph Finder claimed Corn was seriously distorting history to blame Shackley for a series of CIA failings.

Debby Applegate

As of 2011, Applegate is working on a biography of Polly Adler, New York City's notorious Prohibition-era brothel-keeper whose 1953 memoir A House is Not a Home became a New York Times Bestseller and a 1963 film starring Shelley Winters.

Diana Kennedy

1969 At Craig Claiborne's (food editor of New York Times) urging started to give Mexican cooking lessons in New York and spent more than half the next 7 years travelling intensively to do research for future books.

Discovery Museum and Planetarium

Starting in 2005, the museum has held an annual Tech Fest hosted by David Pogue, technology columnist for the New York Times.

Dublin Evening Mail

Halpine was among other things the private secretary to P. T. Barnum, became a prominent journalist with the New York Times, a decorated soldier in the 69th New York Volunteer Infantry and in the Irish Brigade (where his letters, sent as "Private Myles O'Reilly", to the media defending the union became famous), and a key figure in the creation of the United States Army's first African American regiment.

Electronic Cottage

Jon Pareles on cassette underground, The New York Times, May 11, 1987

Eric Asimov

Between 1999 and 2004, Asimov had a daily spot on the New York Times-owned radio station WQXR for which he critiqued food and wine.

Erin E. Stead

Amos McGee was edited by Neal Porter at Roaring Brooks Press and named one of the "10 Best Illustrated Children's Books" for 2010 by The New York Times.

Eva Evdokimova

The last dance created for her (by choreographer Henning Rübsam) in 2002, prompted New York Times critic Jennifer Dunning to comment, "Both the solo and her performance were celebrations of the kind of artistry that comes only with maturity and experience."

Everett Carll Ladd

He reached out to the public through a column in The Christian Science Monitor (1987-1995) and op-ed essays in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and many others.

Gettleman

Jeffrey Gettleman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times

Howard Friel

He also co-authored Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East with Richard Falk (Verso, 2007).

Ian Ayres

Reading Ayres' 2007 book Super Crunchers, David Leonhardt of the New York Times "came across two sentences about a doctor in Atlanta that were nearly identical to two sentences I wrote in this newspaper last year."

Issues relating to biofuels

Steven Rattner, former "auto czar" for U.S. President Barack Obama, wrote an Op-ed for The New York Times in June, 2011, entitled "The Great Corn Con," characterizing ethanol as "an example of government policy run amok."

Jack H. Jacobs

In October 2008, the Penguin Group published Jacobs' memoir, If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice In America's Time of Need, coauthored with New York Times best-selling author, Douglas Century, with a foreword by NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams.

Jenny Valliere

Along with Molly Picon, she was a star at New York City's Second Avenue Theater in the Yiddish Theater District; a 1925 New York Times article singles them out as the only women whose talents provided the major anchor for a New York Yiddish theater at that time.

Josh Balk

His work at COK led to a feature in Kathy Freston’s New York Times best-selling book, Veganist, as well as Melanie Joy’s, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows.

Julie Finley

In November 2005, in response to a report that press freedoms in Kazakhstan were being violated by President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Finley made a statement that, according to reporter C.J. Chivers of the New York Times, seemed to dismiss the significance of the crackdown on the press.

Mary S. Lovell

Her book on Markham, Straight on Till Morning, researched and written in under a year, after weeks of interviews with the subject in Nairobi, became an immediate international bestseller when it was published in 1987 and was twelve weeks on the New York Times Best Seller lists.

Murrah High School

Kathryn Stockett - author of the New York Times Bestseller, "The Help"

National Book Award

The first National Book Awards were presented in May 1936 at the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association, one month after The New York Times reported institution of the "new annual award".

Paul Rudnick

Frank Rich, in The New York Times, called Rudnick, “a born show-biz wit with perfect pitch for priceless one-liners” and Stephen Holden, also in the Times, said that Jeffrey was, “Just the sort of play Oscar Wilde might have written had he lived in 1990s Manhattan.”

Personal Antivirus

The person responsible for the ads originally requested that the New York Times run ads for Vonage VoIP service.

Pierson Parker

After the revealing of the Secret Mark of Morton Smith, Pierson published a critical response in The New York Times calling the document "an early Christian hoax".

Pillar of Fire International

Alma White, the Pillar of Fire, and their association with the Klan are dramatized in Libba Bray's New York Times best-selling 2012 murder mystery The Diviners, in a chapter titled "The Good Citizen." The Diviners is being made into a feature film by Paramount Pictures.

Rick S. Piltz

Within months, the New York Times exposed White House operative Philip Cooney for editing government climate documents to increase uncertainty about the science.

Stacy Curtis

Curtis then began a new career as a children's book illustrator, eventually illustrating more than 25 children's books, including a New York Times Best Seller, Sean Covey's The 7 Habits of Happy Kids, a version of Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People simplified for children.

Steven Baillie

As Arena Homme Plus gained prominence and influence, Baillie was hired back to New York to work for the New York Times’s The Fashion of the Times (later T magazine), and Fabien Baron took over AD duties at Homme Plus (later succeeded by Doug Lloyd, M/M Paris, and Neville Brody).

Taptu

For example, the technology news stream could contain news flowing from TechCrunch, The New York Times Bits Blog, Read Write Web, Engadget, Gizmodo, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.

The Forbidden Quest

The New York Times Janet Maslin praised the "honest power of the film's archival scenes" while condemning its narrative as slow-paced, portentous, and poorly written.

The Moses Expedition

Being a household name in Europe but not yet in the United States, a group of New York Times bestselling authors such as Brad Thor, Matthew Pearl, Javier Sierra, Stephen Coonts, Steve Berry and Katherine Neville among others backed The Moses Expedition with quotes.

The New York Times Book Review

A study published in 2012, by University professor and author Roxane Gay, found that 90 percent of the New York Times book reviews published in 2011 were of books by white authors.

The War Cloud

The War Cloud is a 2010 cyber-thriller by New York Times bestselling novelist Thomas Greanias.

Times Building

The New York Times Building (former), the building at 229 West 43rd Street in New York City that housed The New York Times from 1913 to 2007

William S. Halstead

It was only the second radio station in Pennsylvania, and was described at the time as having “one of the most unusual forms of aerials ever used by a radio broadcasting station.” (See The New York Times reference and original article from December 14, 1934, below.) See also List of Haverford College people.

William Welch II

Sterling was indicted in December 2010 under the Espionage Act of 1917 on charges he had violated national security provisions by disclosing classified information to a New York Times journalist, James Risen, specifically being information used in the book State of War.

Winifred Byrd

James Huneker, reviewing a Byrd recital for The New York Times on November 4, 1918, wrote, "She blazes with temperament. She has the energy of a demon."

Yoshiaki Onishi

Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times said of the piece: “Who needs electronic instruments when a composer can draw such varied, eerily alluring sounds from good old string instruments?”.

Youth Communication

Youth Communication counts many notable alumni, including the authors Edwidge Danticat (Breath Eyes Memory), Veronica Chambers (Mama's Girl), and Gina Trapani (LifeHacker), the hip hop writer and actor Bönz Malone, and the reporters Rachel Swarns (The New York Times), and Mohamad Bazzi (Newsday).