Word: lelyveld
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days after Princess Diana's death, Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor of the New York Times, sat in his office comparing two front pages from the Sunday paper. One had a typically Times-worthy story at the top of the right-hand column--about a new study documenting the number of illegal Mexican workers in the U.S. In the later edition, Diana's death had supplanted it as the lead story. The paper was fast on its feet with the late-breaking news: trucks heading out to the Hamptons, weekend hangout of the media elite, were even turned back...
...story and a photo. The headline, moreover, was a discreet single line across three columns (DIANA KILLED IN A CAR ACCIDENT IN PARIS), a far cry from the banners that ran in most other big-city newspapers. Granted more time, would the Times have given the story bigger play? Lelyveld, a pale, reserved man who seems to personify the good, gray image of the Times, flashes a half-smile. "Actually," he says, "I might have given it less...
Inside the paper, the Times' very dominance may help foster a certain arrogance and complacency. The Times has been slow to jump on some major stories, notably the campaign-finance scandals in Washington (where the Washington Post's Bob Woodward has had some big scoops). Concedes Lelyveld: "We were too slow off the mark." Its big, serioso reporting projects are sometimes lumbering: a seven-part series in March of 1996 on middle-class people who had been downsized out of a job was vivid and affecting but late; it came out just as economic statistics were highlighting job growth...
...Lelyveld's major tasks has been to deal with the perennial Times issue of editorial succession. When an obvious candidate for the No. 2 slot of managing editor wasn't apparent three years ago, he hired Roberts, three years away from retirement. Then, early this year, he named Bill Keller, 48, a former foreign correspondent who won a Pulitzer for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union, to replace Roberts this month. Though criticized in some quarters as having too similar a background to Lelyveld (and causing a stir internally because of his messy personal life: around...
...newspaper's first reporter to die on assignment since World War II, according to Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor of The Times...