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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Times
    sub title: how the newspaper of record survived scandal, scorn, and the transformation of journalism
  title info:
    title: How the newspaper of record survived scandal, scorn, and the transformation of journalism
  name:
    name part: Nagourney, Adam
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History
  genre: Informational works.
  genre: Documents d'information.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiv, 563 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm
  abstract: "A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of "the paper of record," The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential threat of the internet For over a century, The New York Times has been an iconic institution in American journalism, one whose history is intertwined with the events that it chronicles--a newspaper read by millions of people every day to stay informed about events that have taken place across the globe. In The Times, Adam Nagourney, who's worked at The New York Times since 1996, examines four decades of the newspaper's history, from the final years of Arthur "Punch" Sulzberger's reign as publisher to the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. Nagourney recounts the paper's triumphs--the coverage of September 11, the explosion of the U.S. Challenger, the scandal of a New York governor snared in a prostitution case--as well as failures that threatened the paper's standing and reputation, including the discredited coverage of the war in Iraq, the resignation of Judith Miller, the plagiarism scandal of Jayson Blair, and the high-profile ouster of two of its executive editors. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents and letters contained in the newspaper's archives and the private papers of editors and reporters, The Times is an inside look at the essential years that shaped the newspaper. Nagourney paints a vivid picture of a divided newsroom, fraught with tension as it struggled to move into the digital age, while confronting its scandals, shortcomings, and swelling criticism from conservatives and many of its own readers alike. Along the way we meet the memorable personalities--including Abe Rosenthal, Max Frankel, Joe Lelyveld, Bill Keller, Jill Abramson, Dean Baquet, Punch Sulzberger and Arthur Sulzberger Jr.--who shaped the paper as we know it today. We see the battles between the newsroom and the business operations side, the fight between ol…
  table of contents: Preface -- Part I: Keeping it honest, 1977-1986. A man of his times -- Do this for me -- The tenth floor -- Dead ends -- Winners and sinners -- Upward and onward -- Part II: The newsroom, 1986-1994. Changing course -- Two hundred miles -- The shoe at home -- Palm Beach -- Not punch -- The next horizon -- A Timex watch -- Part III: A reporter's editor, 1994-2001. Marching around my head -- "Our Jackie Robinson" -- Newspaper dot com -- No cigar -- Please read this column -- Renegades -- Part IV: A passing storm, 2001-2003. Tête d'armée -- A terrible beauty -- Custer's horse -- At swords' point -- House on fire -- Raw talent -- A room filled with gas -- Losing the newsroom -- Part V: Transitions, 2003-2011. The cure for what ails us -- The second choice -- In the national interest -- Hand on the wheel -- A painful legacy -- Mother times -- Paying the bills -- A digital divide -- Part VI: Change, 2011-2016. A tiger on the news -- No Switzerland -- The pivot -- Diplomat -- Epilogue.
  target audience: adult
  note: Adam Nagourney.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-533) and index.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: New York times
    topic: History
  subject:
    title info:
      title: New York times
  subject:
    topic: American newspapers
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Journalism
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Journaux américains
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Journalisme
    topic: Histoire
  classification: PN4899.N42 N3763 2023
  classification: 071/.471
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Times
    name:
      name part: Nagourney, Adam.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Crown, 2023
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2023012061
  identifier: 9780451499363
  identifier: 0451499360
  identifier: 9780451499387
  identifier: 2023012060
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230512
    record change date: 20231024141237.2
    record identifier: in00004751494
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng