New York Times replaces its chief
mainMark Thompson, the former BBC director general who has been chief executive of the NY Times since 2012, is stepping down.
Thompson, 62, has transformed the Grey Lady into a digital powerhouse with five mllion subscribers, albeit one that has lost much of its editorial authority in dealings with the Wikileaks saga and the Trump regime.
A brass player and lover of Messiaen, Mark will have plenty of interests to occupy his post-Times time.
His replacement is the Times’s COO, Meredith Kopit Levien.
Due to my extremely wishful thinking, I misread the headline and thought that perhaps the NY Times had replaced Anthony Tommasini.
That would have been nice, Anon
Surely there is a “finally” missing there…
Hopefully Ms. Levien will make all of the digital content pay-per-view or better yet put all of their articles behind a single paywall and jack up prices on all fronts the NYT franchises out.
“… lost much of its editorial authority in dealings with the Wikileaks saga and the Trump regime.” Uh, no. What a strange and spurious claim. You would have to look far to find anyone who agrees that its editorial status has diminished in any significant way. So what’s your beef with the Gray Lady, Norman?
NYT lost but all of its authority about 15-20 years ago. The decline was gradual and solid! NL is right.
In which case it has nothing to do with Wikileaks or Trump.
The NYTimes forbids dissenting opinions and fires editors who allow them, thereby finishing its status as a newspaper.
Did Trump force the NYT to go ‘white’??
How will #BLM deal with this racial injustice???
The grey lady? Yes, but a senile one.
I like the part about brass player and Messiaen but any reasonable person should he horrified by the crap that once excellent newspaper writes.
NYT is the only decent media outlet that I know, its articles far exceed anything published in the UK which are in the pocket of the johnson regime
You would prefer Corbyn?!? Ha!
Wouldn’t Starmer be the alternative?
Gregor is right. I don’t understand all this NYT bashing.
You are right, Mick. NYT is total crap!
News on paper clearly is doomed, but you’d think there is enough wish for literate, mature, sophisticated, wit-illumined journalism to support one literate rag. Anyone know one? Is “Die Welt” still any good? Any British or even godhelpus American periodical? French? Are all the songs sung, all cultured critics super-annuated? No Saturday Review on any coast? Do we all go down to Orphus un-sung? Must even Beauty die? And is there no end to these quesetions?
The Economist? The Financial Times?
I wonder is Sulzberger deemed Thompson insufficiently woke.