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So, what you're saying is that New York is affordable ... for RICH people.

You’ll spend less here on everything — but only if you’re rich enough to pay the rent. The typical American’s shopping habits don’t really apply to the typical New Yorker.

04/23/13

Rutgers is the best university at not knowing how to deal with important things.

Officials at the school just don’t seem to know how to handle potentially destructive actions when they fall into their laps. From being there firsthand, I can claim that it’s just too big of a place with a web of bureaucracy.

Even though the Penn State scandal was a far different event, I am reminded of it in a way. People in power try to dust things under the rug to protect themselves and their school’s golden “reputation.” They need to realize that in our world now, EVERYTHING will surface and be shared online.

04/4/13

What do you mean, stretching is not effective?

I don’t know anything anymore.

04/3/13

brooklynmutt:

Flashback March 17, 2003: NY Times captures US on brink of war with Iraq.

via @nycjim

(via brooklynmutt)

03/16/13

Is there a better descriptor than this?

I do love owls, though, New York Times.

03/12/13

“

On her last day at one job, her 75-year-old supervisor asked her to help move some heavy things in her house. In her garage, the supervisor opened a door from which issued a blinding stream of light.
“It was a huge room filled with her own field of marijuana plants,” Ms. Schiller said. “She conscripted me for no pay to harvest it overnight. She makes $35,000 per crop and it goes straight to her retirement account.”
The intern’s payment the next morning: a breakfast burrito.

From a NYT article, “The No-Limits Job,” about how far some young people will go for a job. Yikes.

03/4/13

inothernews:

~~The~~ ~~New Yorker~~ New York magazine brings us the obit printed in the New York Times that dissed the New York Times.

02/26/13

shortformblog:

The New York Times Company purchased the Boston Globe for $1.1 billion back in 1993. It’s unknown why the Times is currently planning to offload the paper, which has been in circulation since 1872, though rumors that it would be sold have been circulating for some time now.

oh wow.

02/20/13

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I don’t get to complain anymore. It’s just true. Some of the most delicious time that you spend as a journalist is like, complaining. At no times have I had fewer actual friends to gossip with, and kind of complain with, or at least commiserate with. That is a hard part of being the boss. Newsrooms are just full of cantankerous complaining people. It’s so enjoyable to be part of that.

Jill Abramson, Executive Editor, The New York Times, about life as the boss. Capital New York, Editor Jill Abramson opens up about layoffs, the time she almost quit, and loneliness at the top. (via futurejournalismproject)

02/20/13

This is What the Sky Over New York Could Look Like

imagine that.

02/1/13

shortformblog:

Today in hackings originating from China: The New York Times. The hacking incident began after The Times started working on this story about Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s fortune. Every Times employee had their corporate password stolen, and 53 employees had their personal computers infiltrated, mostly outside of the office. So yeah, kind of a big story.

01/31/13

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Q: In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
A: Type.

David Carr

Fun Fact: I once passed David Carr while on my daily walk to Port Authority. He was outside The New York Times building, asking someone on the phone: “So Enrico’s is a bowling alley?”

01/25/13

This was on the June 18, 1897 front page of The New York Times. Boozer, a Chicago newsroom cat, survived a 150-foot fall.

12/26/12

Jackpot. This isn’t even my present, but it’s my favorite.

12/26/12

NYT's interactive feature "Snow Fall." Is this the future of digital journalism? I hope so.

12/20/12

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