Former NY Times managing editor dies
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Gerald M. Boyd, a former managing editor of The New York Times who was forced to resign amid a reporter's plagiarizing scandal, has died. He was 56.
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Ellen J. Pollock, a longtime editor and writer for the Wall Street Journal, is leaving to become executive editor of BusinessWeek.
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Eliot Fremont-Smith, in a photo from The Timesâs archive, with markings by editors. Eliot Fremont-Smith, who died last week at 78, was a book critic at the Times from 1961-1968, stormy and important years in American writing. Iâm not old enough to remember his work here (or anywhere, really), but Fremont-Smithâs name has long been [...].
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Gerald Boyd, a prominent American  black journalist and former managing editor of The New York  Times who was forced to resign after a young reporter under his  leadership was involved in a plagiarism scandal, has died. He  was 56.
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Richard Avedon, who turned fashion  and portrait photography into art forms and captured  unforgettable images of some of the world's most famous  figures, died on Friday at 81, a spokeswoman for the New Yorker  magazine said.
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Khalid W. Hassan, who worked for the New York Timesâs news bureau in Baghdad, was shot and killed today.
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William Safire, a former speech-writer for President Richard Nixon who became one of the country's most-quoted conservatives, said on Monday he would retire his New York Times political column in January after almost 32 years of making the high and mighty wince.
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William Safire, a former  speechwriter for President Richard Nixon who became one of the  country's most-quoted conservatives, said on Monday he would  retire his New York Times political column in January after  almost 32 years of making the high and mighty wince.
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A veteran British magazine editor who specializes in celebrity and entertainment publications was named on Wednesday as editor-in-chief of America's largest weekly, the 9-million circulation TV Guide.
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USA Today publisher Gannett Co Inc said on Thursday that the president of its newspaper division will retire in late May.
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The New York hotel that inspired writers and artists from Mark Twain to Sid Vicious has removed the longtime manager who nurtured their sanctuary, raising concern about the future of an institution.
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Lester Tanzer, 75, a longtime Washington journalist who was managing editor of US News &amp; World Report for nine years, died Dec. 8 at his home in Arlington.
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The Wall Street Journal, whose parent Dow Jones & Co. is the target of a $5 billion takeover offer by News Corp., is set to shake up its newsroom by reassigning and replacing several top editors, the New York Times reported on its Web site.
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Bill Farrell retired Friday after more than 30 years as a reporter and columnist with the Daily News.
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William Kristol, a prominent  conservative pundit and magazine editor, has signed on as a  columnist for The New York Times, a publication he has often  sharply criticized, the newspaper announced on Saturday.
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_ Michael Oreskes, a New York Times assistant managing editor, has been appointed deputy managing editor at the paper, effective Jan. 1. Executive editor Bill Keller made the announcement Monday, the Times said.
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The Wall Street Journal, whose parent  Dow Jones & Co. is the target of a $5 billion takeover offer by  News Corp., is set to shake up its newsroom by reassigning and  replacing several top editors, the New York Times reported on  its Web site.