Who Is in Charge at The New York Times?
Illustration by The Free Press.
The Gray Lady’s top brass has lost patience with the newsroom activists. But will their crackdown work? Eli Lake investigates.
If you’ve read anything about the tumult at The New York Times in recent years—here’s one account by James Bennet, who was ousted as opinion editor at the paper in 2020—you’ll know many Times employees see themselves as activists first, and reporters and editors second. You’ll also know that Times’ leadership has usually cowed before those activists.
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