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...Because of the yearbook’s practical function, Editor-in-Chief Kory A. Byrns ’06 says that its artistic merits are often overlooked...
...time Okrent’s term ended last spring, he was noted for having established the job of public editor at the paper, getting the Times to reconsider its policies on anonymous sources, and influencing its decision to publicly re-examine its erroneous reporting on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...
Okrent started his job at the Times in the midst of “widespread skepticism” in the newsroom about the necessity of a public editor, said Adam Nagourney, a political correspondent for the paper who was a fellow at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics this fall. Nagourney—himself a target of a 2004 Okrent column criticizing the Times’ coverage of the Howard Dean campaign—said much of that skepticism evaporated by the end of Okrent’s tenure...
Byron Calame succeeded Okrent in May 2005, by which point Okrent had “made it very clear that the public editor at the New York Times was truly independent,” Calame said yesterday...
...interview yesterday, Okrent said that “establishing the job” of public editor at the Times was among the most important achievements of his tenure there. While Okrent said the post has yet to be formally declared permanent, it will remain “certainly for the foreseeable future...