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Family of Slain Reporter Settles Lawsuit

The family of a slain New York Times reporter settled its lawsuit against a hospital and emergency workers they had accused of negligence and medical malpractice, representatives for both sides said Thursday.

Business Watercooler Stories

THE WORLD IS NOT SO FLAT: In his best-seller, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman proclaimed globalization the enabler of emerging countries, "flattening" inequalities with developed nations.

Report: Blackwater Killings Unjustified

Blackwater Worldwide supports "stringent accountability" for any wrongdoing, a spokeswoman says following a report saying federal investigators found that the shooting deaths of at least 14 Iraqi civilians by its guards violated rules of deadly force.

Report: Israel Hit Syria Nuclear Reactor

An Israeli airstrike on Syria last month targeted a partially built nuclear reactor that was years away from completion, the New York Times reported Saturday, citing U.S. and foreign officials.

New York Times to Stop Charging Web Fees

The New York Times said Monday it is scrapping a two-year-old program to charge fees for access to parts of its Web site, including op-ed columnists and archives dating back to 1987.

Giuliani Attacks Clinton in Campaign Ad

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani criticized Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton in a full-page ad in Friday's New York Times, accusing her of assailing Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus' character.

2 Soldiers Who Wrote Op-Ed Died in Iraq

Two sergeants who helped write a New York Times op-ed article sharply critical of the Pentagon's assessment of the Iraq war were killed in a Baghdad crash this week, and one grieving mother wants the Army to explain their deaths.

Iraqi New York Times Journalist Killed

Gunmen killed an Iraqi journalist from The New York Times as he drove to work Friday, the third staffer of a Western news organization to be killed in the past two days. In his last moments, Khalid W. Hassan called his mother on his cell phone and told her he had been shot.

MySpace Expands Video Offerings

Social networking site MySpace is launching video channels that will feature news and lifestyle video from partners including The New York Times and National Geographic, the company announced Tuesday.

Stern Critical of Study on Racial Bias

NBA commissioner David Stern criticized a study regarding racial bias among league officials and the New York Times for printing it, saying racism "doesn't exist in the NBA."

Uganda Promises to Aid, Protect Somalia

Uganda's top military officials promised to help train a national army for Somalia and help provide security for its government, a Somali official said Friday.

Libby, Cheney Avoid Stand in Leak Trial

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Tuesday abandoned plans to testify in his own defense and decided against calling his former boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, to help defend him in the CIA leak trial.

NYC Cop Might Not Have Rushed to WTC

The search for World Trade Center heroes led the media last month to Cesar Borja, a police officer killed by a lung disease his family believes was caused by exposure to toxic dust at ground zero.

Judge Refuses to Block Reporter Subpoena

The judge in the CIA leak trial Tuesday refused to block a subpoena for a New York Times reporter's testimony, a ruling favorable to defendant I. Lewis Libby.

Libby...Not the First Source?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller acknowledged Wednesday that she had conversations with other government officials and could not be "absolutely, absolutely certain" that she first heard about an outed CIA official from I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Gov't Asks Court Not to Block Records

The Justice Department on Saturday asked the Supreme Court to refrain from stepping into another First Amendment battle featuring federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and The New York Times.

N.Y. Times Must Disclose Anthrax Sources

A federal judge upheld an order requiring The New York Times to disclose a columnist's confidential sources as part of a libel lawsuit filed over its coverage of the 2001 anthrax attacks.

House Intel Chair Suspends Staff Member

Democrats say the Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee had no grounds to suspend a staff member who's come under scrutiny for the leak of a secret intelligence assessment.

Agreement Gives All Libyan Kids Laptops

The government of Libya reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers to all of its 1.2 million schoolchildren, The New York Times reported in Wednesday's editions.

Bush Slams Leak of Terror Financing Info

President Bush said Monday it was "disgraceful" that the news media had disclosed a secret CIA-Treasury program to track millions of financial records in search of terrorist suspects. The White House accused The New York Times of breaking a long tradition of keeping wartime secrets.

U.S. Criticizes Media on Terror Funds

Major newspapers came under fire from top Bush administration officials Friday for publishing accounts, despite objections from the White House, of an extensive program to collect data on international financial transfers by suspected terrorists.

Times Admits Incorrectly ID'ing Hooded Man

The New York Times acknowledged in Saturday's editions that it incorrectly identified an Iraqi man in a front-page story as the hooded figure shown in a photograph from Abu Ghraib prison that became an icon of abuse by American captors.

Limbaugh Makes Error About Brown's Race

Brown is black in the eyes of Rush Limbaugh. When Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett was forced out of the Democratic primary in the U.S. Senate race in Ohio, the conservative commentator criticized The New York Times for not saying that the Democrats' preferred candidate is black.

The Vine

Call Off the War Dogs at the New York Times

Source: Counterpunch

I've got a better idea: the U.S. government should butt out of Pakistani affairs -- as well as the affairs of Iraq, Iran, Korea, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and all the rest.

New York Times defends hiring conservative Kristol

Source: Politico

The New York Times' hiring of Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol to write for its op-ed page caused a frenzy in the liberal blogosphere Friday night, with threats of canceling subscriptions and claims that the Gray Lady had been hijacked by neo-cons

New York Times Admits Wrongdoing against Ron Paul

Source: The New York Times

Editors' Note: The post below, which appeared on The Medium on Monday, contained several errors.

The BookCrossing adventures of Michelle Slatalla

Source: Eco-Libris blog

Michelle Slatalla is one of my favorite writers at the New York Times and it's always a delight to read her column Cyberfamiliyas every other Thursday (Style and fashion section). Last week she wrote a great piece on her BookCrossing adventures.

The pope calls on Christmas Mass to protect the environment

Source: Eco-Libris blog

Today is Christmas, and I was happy to read on the New York Times ('Pope Makes Appeal to Protect the Environment') that Pope Benedict XVI talked on the midnight Christmas Mass about the environment and expressed his concerns of the way we're treating the planet.

New York Times in Iraq: Blackwater shot our dog

Source: Reuters

The U.S. embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards -- this time of the New York Times's dog.

New York Times In Iraq: "Blackwater Shot Our Dog"

Source: Reuters

he U.S. embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards -- this time of the New York Times's dog.

NYT editorial condemns Clinton for Iowa student voting comments

Source: The New York Times

Glad the NYT came out on the right side of this one.

Gail Collins Versus the Underdogs

Source: Counterpunch

Ms. Collins' treatment of the "second tier" candidates in the Democratic Party, such as Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich...Columnists such as Gail Collins and her humane colleague, Bob Herbert, abhor going into these fields of political fertility.

Primary Perspective

By New Media Alliance Staff Writer Thomas E. Brewton Presidential primary campaigns illustrate politics as manipulation of, as well as pandering to, public opinion, with no necessary connection to political wisdom.

NYT Profile Radiohead: "Pay What You Want for This Article"

Source: The New York Times

SHORTLY after Radiohead released its album "In Rainbows" online in October, the band misplaced its password for Max/MSP, a geek-oriented music software package that the guitarist Jonny Greenwood uses constantly. It wasn't the first time it had happened, Mr.

U.S. Says Iran Ended Atomic Arms Work

Source: The New York Times

Another proper headline, instead of the incorrect statement that the Iran nuclear weapon program continues. The surprise is how little analysis and review this obtained despite the high number of comments on the other headline from the AP that claimed the program continues.

Fact and Fiction on the Campaign Trail

Source: The New York Times

The Times, with its own rich Web offerings on the presidential campaign, would do well to showcase a fact-checking feature.

Lead article on Newsvine misstates the facts about Superdelegates

SUPPLEMENT Of course, this is no longer the lead article. Indeed, I was tempted to post this again, because of the incredible slowdown we experienced earlier today on Newsvine.

Green Holidays - the discussion

Source: Eco-Libris blog

December started today and it's the time to see how we can make the holidays greener. Eco-Libris blog will bring you this month tips, ideas and thoughts that will hopefully inspire us all to enjoy joyous holidays, but with a smaller impact on the environment.

New York Times Doesn't Know From Video Games

Source: Kotaku

The NYT makes mention of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 both being powered by the Cell processor, with the latter listing for as low as $299.

The New York Times: Rudy Giuliani Is A Liar

Source: The New York Times

In almost every appearance as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, Rudolph W. Giuliani cites a fusillade of statistics and facts to make his arguments about his successes in running New York City and the merits of his views.

Civil Discourse, Meet the Internet

Source: The New York Times

How does The Times come to terms with the culture of the Internet, where readers expect to participate but sometimes do so in coarse and misinformed ways?

Scientific Method: Evidence, Not Faith

Source: The New York Times

Which is more improbable — that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead or that there is an invisible, omniscient moral intelligence present everywhere that has the highest tolerance for cruelty?

The power of the tower- The new NY Times Building

Source: Guardian Unlimited

"Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of the New York Times, put it best.

100 Notable Books of the Year

Source: The New York Times

The Book Review has selected this list from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 3, 2006.

The valley of books

Source: Eco-Libris blog

Roger Mummert of the NYT bring us the story of Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, which is a paradise for every avid reader - plenty of independent bookstores, many literature events every day and even loads of authors that live next by ("The Pioneer Valley is arguably the  …

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