Katie Robertson

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Katie Robertson

In opening statements, lawyers for Sarah Palin and The Times each presented arguments on whether the editorial board had published a statement knowing it was false. A retrial of the yearslong defamation case brought by Sarah Palin against The New York Times got underway before a Manhattan jury on Tuesday.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Benjamin Mullin |Katie Robertson

Radhika Jones, the editor of Vanity Fair since 2017, said on Thursday she would step down after seven years of leading the magazine. Ms. Jones, 52, said in an email to Vanity Fair's staff that she was leaving to take on new challenges, adding that she didn't want to experience the "horror of staying too long at the party.""I began to feel, more powerfully, the pull of new goals in my life, around family and friends and writing and other ways to make an impact," Ms. Jones wrote.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Benjamin Mullin |Katie Robertson

In February, as morale at The Washington Post was reaching new lows, two of the newspaper's most respected alumni decided to intervene, according to several people with knowledge of the decision. Leonard Downie, the paper's top editor for 17 years, and Bob Kaiser, who spent more than a half-century at the newspaper, including as managing editor, emailed The Post's owner, Jeff Bezos, with a simple message: He needed to cut ties with Will Lewis, its embattled chief executive.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Katie Robertson |Benjamin Mullin

The New Yorker has parted ways with its art critic after the magazine received complaints about his behavior at its 100th anniversary party in February, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. The critic, Jackson Arn, who joined the magazine in 2023, was accused of making inappropriate overtures to some of the attendees and appeared intoxicated at the celebration, according to the two people, one of whom witnessed his actions. Mr. Arn declined to comment when reached by phone.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Katie Robertson

On Sunday evening, as well-heeled guests trickled out of a screening of " Becoming Katharine Graham," a documentary on the fabled former Washington Post publisher, they couldn't help but remark on how much has changed at the paper, and in Washington. Under Ms. Graham, from 1963 to 1991, the publication transformed itself from a regional newspaper into one of the country's leading journalistic institutions.