What We're Reading
Date: 01 August 2014
By INSIDER STAFF
Insider STAFF
Recommended reads from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web.
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1st of August 2014 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 1, 2014
An ABC Veteran Is Named ‘PBS NewsHour’ Producer
Date: 01 August 2014
By ELIZABETH JENSEN
Elizabeth JENSEN
Sara Just, Washington deputy bureau chief for ABC News, is named executive producer of PBS NewsHour; is first major change to the program since it was acquired by the public broadcaster WETA in July.
Once Leader of Outcry, de Blasio Is Now Trying to Quell It
Date: 01 August 2014
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Michael
News analysis; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who campaigned as a critic of Police Department policies, is now trying to strike a delicate balance between supporting the police and delivering on promised reform; as frustrations grow over death of Eric Garner after being put in a police chokehold, de Blasio is finding that quelling an outcry can be much more difficult than leading one.
Rounding Up Journalists in Iran
Date: 02 August 2014
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Editorial decries arrests of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife and fellow journalist Yeganeh Salehi in Iran; argues that incident shows that country's oppression of journalism is continuing unabated despite talk of thaw by Pres Hassan Rouhani; calls on Rouhani to release them.
More Online Publishers Let Readers Fill the Space
Date: 02 August 2014
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Leslie KAUFMAN
Media companies have introduced technology that allows users to upload digital content like links, text, video and other media, with little to no oversight; many publishers see trend as a way to enhance reader relationships while filling space with content at minimal cost.
Good News on Financial Reform
Date: 01 August 2014
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Paul KRUGMAN
Too big to fail? Not so much, now.
Knowledge Isn’t Power
Date: 01 August 2014
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Paul KRUGMAN
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column discusses troubling question of whether we as societies are even capable of taking good economic policy advice; contends when politicians pick and choose which experts to believe, the odds are that they will choose badly; concludes one has to wonder whether and how the nation will avoid disaster.