If you follow the goings-on at @nytopinion this Vanity Fair story has some good information. I will pass along some of the nuggets. vanityfair.com/news/2020/01/o… One is that the Times has decided to use its "institutional voice" (meaning: no byline) less often. Only for big things. 1/
About opinion editor @JBennet. The people who run the Times thought he "had edited and published the finest single piece of Opinion journalism of the past several years: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 'The Case for Reparations.' That’s the guy they wanted to run Opinion at the Times..." 2/
The Opinion section has grow a lot. From around 70 in 2016 to 115 people today.
Then there's Bret Stephens. Turns out the Times wanted him for a long time, as did the Post. The current Times publisher several times suggested him. It wasn't til Benett came on that it happened. 3/
Then there's Bret Stephens. Turns out the Times wanted him for a long time, as did the Post. The current Times publisher several times suggested him. It wasn't til Benett came on that it happened. 3/
"Journalists in the department aired their grievances during a monthly town hall with Bennet on January 8, questioning how the [Ashkenazi genius] column made it into the paper in the first place, as well as vocalizing their exasperation with the embarrassment it had caused." 4/
