#new-york-times

#new-york-times

Six years after Warren Buffett sold off all of Berkshire Hathaway's newspapers and predicted unending declines for most of the industry, Berkshire disclosed a new $350 million investment in The New York Times on Tuesday. The somewhat surprising move highlighted the quarterly update Berkshire filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission about the company's stock holdings in Buffett's last quarter as CEO.

According to a Tuesday report from Intelligencer, Times staffers were invited last year to begin nominating co-workers for what would eventually be called the Ochs Awards. Finalists for the 25 awards were announced Monday, and winners will be announced at an event on February 10. Cash prizes will also be given. Award categories include Best Scoop, Writer of the Year, and Rising Journalist. One Times writer joked that the idea was delightfully insane.

Anyone with a New York billing address who canceled a digital Times subscription between January 19, 2018 and June 30, 2022 or a home delivery subscription between January 19, 2018 and August 9, 2023 qualifies for a $14 refund if they submit a claim form by March 3.

The New York Times has refuted claims from a former editor that its senior staff are "militant" in their anti-trans views. The 175-year-old news publication claimed accusations of its transphobic reporting are based on "falsehoods" and insisted its coverage of trans topics is "guided by facts and questions". Trans journalist Billie Jean Sweeney, who previously worked in the organisation's International Desk, told Trans News Network (TNN) that senior management shut down " all avenues " of internal criticism over its reporting

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell went off on the press over their lack of outrage over what he called President Donald Trump's publicly flaring madness this week. O'Donnell has consistently called out what he sees as Trump's growing incapacity, growing to a crescendo this week amid a series of escalating stumbles, a speech to military leaders, and social media antics around the government shutdown.

My last years at the paper weren't my most pleasant. My job went from being one I would say, earnestly, I would do for free, to one I struggled to justify doing for pay. The zombie thing that came to be published under my name had a dwindling trace of my breath in it. It was no longer fully my voice.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, "I’m actually looking at whether a country can sue The New York Times... it's such clear defamation."

The federal judge has granted the New York Times and its co-plaintiffs access to OpenAI's user archives, including deleted materials, amid a copyright infringement lawsuit.

The Times editorial board's strong recommendation is for voters to look past the leading progressive candidate, warning of a return to urban chaos, similar to the 1970s.

Mr. Onwuachi paints a vibrant portrait of the Afro-Caribbean culinary diaspora, adding surprising touches inspired by his Bronx upbringing - spicy, nutty suya is dusted onto pastrami, while lobster gets the bright and bracing escovitch treatment.

Glide through the revolving doors on 65th Street and enter a world where well-coiffed servers still set plates down in unison, and roast duck is carved and pressed tableside. Daniel has reinvented itself a few times, but its appeal remains the same: Here is a classic French restaurant where the food will always be careful and precise, the service is designed to charm and the whole experience will make you feel like a fabulous Upper East Side socialite. The famed chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud, who runs several other restaurants in New York, still walks the dining room regularly, as if taking a victory lap around his most prized accomplishment.

The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prize awards, highlighting its reporting on Sudan's civil war, U.S. failures in Afghanistan, and the opioid crisis.

Thank you to everyone who spent an evening with us, partied a little too hard and ate a little too much. The opportunity to share that moment was truly a pleasure.