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Sexton Says: ‘Love Jersey’
The New York Times' Metro report will write more about food and sex than ever and it will write less about New Jersey than it has in years. This news officially comes in response to a reader's inquiry...
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Times to Announce Section Consolidation
Media Mob has learned that The New York Times will make an announcement later today that it plans to cut the number of sections it has in the paper during some days of the week and it will fold in the...
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Sexton’s ‘Maudlin’ Memo Invites Times Metro Team to Forget Problems, Dance
New York Times' Metro editor Joe Sexton sent out a memo this morning to the metro staff lamenting that the department would lose its display-front starting on Oct. 6. In some ways, the memo almost...
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Keller to Metro: Come Drink and ‘Drown Your Sorrows’
Between Joe Sexton's "maudlin" note, his follow-up request to "Be Not Afraid," and now the latest, an invitation to drink with and yell at Bill Keller, it's a hard time for the Metro department; there...
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Times’‘Metro’ Section Consolidated Into A-Section; Renamed ‘New York’
The Times' B-section is no longer the Metro Section; it's now the Business Section. And here's Metro's new placement—renamed "New York"—on A21. Today is the first day that the Metro section merged into...
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Times Metro Section’s Big Flatbush Wake
On the evening of Saturday, Oct. 4, several dozen of the past and present staff of The New York Times’ Metro desk made their way out to the increasingly trendy Victorian part of Flatbush, with its...
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Unnamed Times ‘Metro’ Reporter: ‘We’ve Grown a Pair of Balls’
In this week's New York Magazine, Chris Smith tackles the implosion of Caroline Kennedy's effort for the Senate and while picking apart what went wrong, he points to the disastrous interview that she...
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Times Metro Desk Cancels All Newspaper, Magazine Subscriptions
The metro desk at the Times was informed today that all magazine and newspaper subscriptions have been canceled. If reporters want to check out the competition in the Post or the News, they can buy...
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Sexton, Times Metro Editor, Stays Put
Last week we told you about several department heads at The Times who were taking new jobs. Joe Sexton is not one of them, at least for the moment. Mr. Sexton, the paper's metro editor, told staffers...
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Just Asking… Which Financial Daily Is Jumping Into the Gossip Biz?
Last week, we reported that The Wall Street Journal’s New York section was starting—of all odd things—sports beats, with reporters traveling to home and away games of New York teams. Well, now it...
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