Bill Keller
Bill Keller
Bill Kelleris an American journalist. He is a writer for The New York Times, where he was executive editor from July 2003 until September 2011. He announced on June 2, 2011, that he would step down from the position to become a full-time writer. Jill Abramson replaced him as executive editor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 January 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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We do our best to make sure that doesn't happen, but occasionally it does. But notebooks are not by any means a vehicle for people to slip their personal opinions into the newspaper.
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This news organization is a national treasure. I will do everything in my power to uphold its high standards, preserve its integrity and build on its achievements.
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I wish it had been a clear-cut whistle-blower case. I wish it had been a reporter who came with less public baggage,
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It felt somehow unsavory to begin a tenure by attacking our predecessors, ... We allowed the anger inside and outside the paper to fester. Worse, we fear, we fostered an impression that the Times put a higher premium on protecting its reporters than on coming clean with its readers.
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It felt somehow unsavory to begin a tenure by attacking our predecessors,
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Judy met this afternoon with the special counsel to hand over additional notes and answer questions. She is to return to the grand jury Wednesday to supplement her earlier testimony.
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Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign.
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Judy believed Libby was afraid of her testimony,
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Some of it is just, 'I can't talk to you on the phone anymore,' and some of it is, 'I think I better lay low for a while.'
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What our reporting has done is set off an intense national debate about the proper balance between security and liberty.
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When we learn something anonymously, we push very hard to bolster our reporting with on-the-record information and documents. But often the first alert of something going wrong comes from a nervous insider who wants to expose something amiss but can't afford to risk his or her job.
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There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.
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There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
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Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.