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New York Times

Katie Kingsbury

The Times’ Ruemmler in the Jungle

Weeks after the Kristof vs. Bibi kerfuffle, the Times newsroom is again in an uproar over an Opinion story, this time allegedly attempting to rehabilitate the reputation of an Epstein associate. Big deal? Little deal? No deal?
Dylan Byers • June 15, 2026
Julia Alexander • June 12, 2026
The Wellness Wars
Mark Thompson
CNN is chasing The New York Times to tap into the wellness-obsessed world of peptides and GLP-1s as its next great subscription engine. Can legacy media compete with an army of TikTok doctors? And, perhaps more to the point, should they?
Dylan Byers • May 15, 2026
Will There Be “Blood Libel”?
Nicholas Kristof
Nick Kristof’s exposé on Israeli prison abuse has brought the threat of a potential “blood libel” case from Netanyahu and another epic internal schism on Eighth Avenue, once again pitting the Opinion section against the newsroom. Here’s how it’s playing on the inside.
Meredith Kopit Levien
Julia Alexander • April 17, 2026
Doomsday Prepping for the A.I. Media Apocalypse
The already shell-shocked media business is bracing for yet another existential disruption: a future in which many readers are replaced by A.I. agents summarizing their work—and cutting out the advertisers that are the lifeblood of the industry.
Leon Black
William D. Cohan • April 1, 2026
Leon Black From the Ashes, Part III
The erstwhile Apollo executive has more to say about his entanglements with Epstein, Ron Wyden, and his latest foe, The New York Times.
Marc Lacey
Dylan Byers • January 23, 2026
The Times 4-Day Workweek Holy War
Each era seems to get the New York Times union the negotiations it deserves. The latest, already contentious round of labor relations at the paper is likely to come down to issues like A.I. and return-to-office. Don’t expect a return to the recent age of conciliation.
Tim Cook
Ian Krietzberg • January 13, 2026
10 Bold Predictions for A.I.’s Year Ahead
Mass adoption, steep contraction, and the fruits of Apple’s waiting game are all part of the coming year in artificial intelligence.
Journalists
Dylan Byers • December 19, 2025
The 2025 Media State of the Union
The inherent tension of the journalist-as-brand model, the continued erosion of institutional authority, the potential for an A.I. newsroom: Industry leaders weighed in on all this and more at a panel this week to unveil the results of our latest Puck–Orchestra survey.
Hamish McKenzie, Substack
Julia Alexander • November 28, 2025
Substack Entrapment Theory
Google Zero killed the open web, ChatGPT isn’t replacing lost traffic, and superstar talent is a phenomenally difficult business. Digital media companies trying to stay upright are belatedly turning to creator-first subscription platforms in search of sustainable, niche audiences—without realizing that they’ve seen this movie before.
Olivia Nuzzi
Dylan Byers • November 19, 2025
A Brave Nuzzi World
Between the Bravo-ready mess of the Nuzzi-Lizza imbroglio and Michael Wolff’s Epstein deference, it was a monumentally bad week for media ethics. As journalists, even principled ones, become increasingly central characters in the stories themselves, is this kind of spectacle an unavoidable component of a new media world order?