Adam Nagourney’s new history of the Gray Lady recounts the paper’s dramatic history from 1977 to 2016
“Will the New York Times make it?” That was the topic of the town-hall meeting that the newspaper’s then-executive editor, Bill Keller, held for his anxious staff in the late 2000s. He walked onstageToday, when the New York Times has nearly 10 million paying subscribers and posts annual profits in the hundreds of millions of dollars, it is easy to forget how bleak its future looked 15 years ago.
In the second half of the book, which takes us from 2001 to 2016, the Times’s troubles burst into the open. First came the revelation that the reporter Jayson Blair had fabricated or plagiarized dozens of stories, then the realization that the Times, led by reporter Judith Miller, had helped launder fictions about Iraq’s weapons programs in the run-up to war. After these blows to the paper’s reputation came a devastating hit to its business.
had bungled its efforts to adapt to the internet. A janky collaboration with America Online in 1994 was quickly scrapped, and an experiment called TimesSelect, which put only the paper’s opinion columnists behind a paywall, bombed in the mid-2000s. But this time it worked, and nearly every other major print publication, including The Washington Post, has since taken a similar approach.
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