Updated, March 2010 | City Room, a live-news blog about the five boroughs of New York City, is a collaborative effort by reporters and editors of The Times. Listed below are some of the staff members involved:
Earl Wilson/The New York TimesAndy Newman, City Room’s bureau chief since January 2010, has been a journalist since 1990 (Indian-American TV show, weekly paper in Hoboken, Jersey Journal) and joined the Times in 1997, where he has covered transportation, religion and Brooklyn for the Metro section. In 2009 he cofounded and ran The Local, the Times’s multimedia experiment in collaborative neighborhood news coverage in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. His 2,000-plus Times articles include front-page stories on a Chinese orphan’s bat mitzvah, statistical analyses of taxi accidents, murders, murder verdicts, why New Yorkers stare out apartment windows and lash ragged stuffed animals to the grilles of trucks, the advent of the unlimited Metrocard, Billy Graham’s last sermon in New York and a used dining-room table.The offspring of a Brooklyn-Bronx union, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife/bandmate (whom he met while reporting the demolition of a pair of old gas-storage towers), their daughter and basset hound.
Alison Leigh Cowan, a native New Yorker, currently reports on the city for the Metro department. She is the creator of a new on-line feature for the department called “On the Records,’’ which publishes documents and primary sources that are behind the news or are worthy of public interest in their own right. Recent finds have included newly digitized images of Dickens’s manuscript for “A Christmas Carol,” application essays of inmates now enrolled at Wesleyan University, and fine print from the New York City teachers’ contract. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School, Ms. Cowan has held various reporting and editing jobs at the New York Times over the last 23 years. As a suburban reporter, she chronicled everything from the fall of a popular governor to the censorship of a high-school play about the Iraqi war. She spent two years on the investigations desk, where she wrote about hospitals, government-sponsored enterprises and the Clinton pardons. Before that, she was attached to the business news department, most recently as the deputy business editor.
James A. Hunt has been a copy editor since 1971 and a member of the Metro staff of The Times since 1992, at which time he was assured the assignment would be temporary. Before joining The Times, he worked on news, feature and editorial pages for The Baltimore Sun and its competitor, The News American, and for The Washington Times.
Earl Wilson/The New York TimesWendell Jamieson, deputy metropolitan editor for the Web, oversees City Room and breaking metro news online. He began his career as a copy boy at The New York Post during summers in the mid-1980s, and worked at The Jersey Journal in Jersey City, New York Newsday and The Daily News before joining The New York Times as a staff editor in 2000. He was the metro assignment editor from 2003 until 2006, and the city editor until 2008, when he took a sabbatical in the Styles department. He has written for many sections of the paper and is the author of “Father Knows Less, Or ‘Can I Cook My Sister?’” (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007). A graduate of Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and Boston University, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children. He is also a Shodan, or First Dan, in Kendo, which is Japanese fencing.
Corey Kilgannon began working at The Times in 1994 as a copy boy, and began writing freelance articles for the Sports, City and Metro and other sections. From 1996 to 1999, he was reporter for The Resident, a weekly newspaper in Manhattan. He returned to The Times as a contract-freelance reporter for the City section and became a staff writer for the Metro desk in 1999. He has covered Westchester County, Queens and Long Island for The Times and now writes and shoots video for the Street Takes feature on City Room.
Earl Wilson/The New York TimesEmily S. Rueb has been a Web producer for The Times since 2006, working on the Travel and Escapes sections and on breaking news. Before moving to New York, she lived in Paris, Belfast, Edinburgh and London, contributing to various media outlets — including Time Out Paris, the BBC and The Financial Times — and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She graduated from Boston College and has a master’s degree in international politics from the University of Edinburgh. She has lived in six apartments in New York City and now calls Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, home.
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It would be nice if your paper were more in tune with the problems of the surrounding suburbs especially since some of the problems are caused by city politicians.
Here’s a problem with funding with our tax dollars an illegal day laborer site:
Town Funding Misguided – letter about the town of Huntington administration of Supervisor Frank Petrone and council members Cuthbertson and Berland who used taxpayer money of at least $115,000 per year for over 7 years to pay for a small pile of dirt so that crooked businesses could use the day laborer site while the needy children in the Huntington Station area only got $10,000 a year for very much needed programs.
Newsday even had a picture of all these cute kids at the Huntington Station Enrichment now being denied programs because the town of Huntington wanted the day laborer site used for businesses seeking cheap labor and avoidance of taxes.
Kudos to Newsday for printing this.
Maybe the IRS can now see who the real culprit is in this criminal mess of non payment of taxes. It’s not the enrichment center but the Town of Huntington Administration of Frank Petrone and Mark Cuthbertson.
Please pass this on to the Manahattan politician Espaillat. He needs to stop dictating like a tyrant in a third world country.
— Moon DogLouis’ house in Corona? Rainy day a couple of years ago; no one there. Me, on a haphazard visit from Paris, getting a look with tour included of Louis’ house. People ask me what I see in New York. They think of Times Square, shopping – so I visit Macy’s, but it’s the store that’s fascinating. Last winter I got a porkpie hat on Orchard Street. Wearing it back to Queens nobody looked at it twice, all those Latin dudes wearing Mets caps. Flushing, Woodside, the Christmas lights in Brooklyn, Katz’ Deli; New York is my dreamland. City Room keeps it surreal. Thanks.
— Ric EricksonSewell ~ Chan I might add.
— John Brady“The Times” should publish a separate “North of Westchester-Rockland/West of the Hudson” section once a week. This section would concentrate on the political and economic news of that vast swatch of geography and sociology rare’sly given any thought by the New York City media.
“The Times” has increased the number and range of articles it publishes about the “upstate” area in the last two years.
I believe the paper could increase its paid readership and advertising income with such a weekly section. After all, we do have Macy’s and other stores upstate cities. We even have some retail stores y’all downstaters do not have in your neighborhoods and malls.
— Harvey