American Journalism Review
"All the good people who are left after we've finished our own hiring," adds New York Times executive editor
Bill Keller. He also tells
Rachel Smolkin:
* "The Washington Post, you know, has become an education company that happens to own a newspaper." The Post "is one of the properties that the Kaplan Co. owns," and is "certainly under a lot of pressure."
* Dow Jones "seems to be pumping out a lot of smoke to mask a retreat," covering business for business and offering a more "magaziney" approach to the WSJ. "My sense is that they're hollowing out the reporting behind it. This really struck me between the eyes during the war on Lebanon...You sensed a real absence of reporting on the ground."
* On the Los Angeles Times: "What they have been going through is a fairly relentless cost-cutting exercise driven by people in Chicago ... who all but say it would be just fine if the L.A. Times were the Chicago Tribune. The Chicago Tribune is an OK paper. It's a fine paper. It's not the L.A. Times."
