Q and A

  1. December 19, 2011 05:19 PM

    Q&A: New York Times Iraq reporter Michael S. Schmidt

    On finding classified documents in the trash, and transitioning from the sports beat

    By Erika Fry

    Several weeks ago, New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt, a foreign correspondent in the newspaper’s Baghdad bureau, went looking for US military trailers in a local junkyard. Schmidt was trying to find a new way to tell the story of American withdrawal from Iraq—and he found one when he stumbled upon a binder of classified military documents...

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  2. February 23, 2011 04:29 PM

    Mark Cuban’s Business Model

    A media maverick on the news industry

    By Terry McDermott

    Mark Cuban is well known as the brash, combative owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team, the guy who looks like a big kid and sometimes acts like one. His outbursts can obscure his most notable attribute—he is an astute businessman.

    Cuban made his fortune building and selling two businesses—the first a computer-services company and the second...

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  3. January 9, 2009 09:00 AM

    Object Lessons

    Holland Cotter on truth, beauty, and critical Zen

    By Allan M. Jalon

    The art critic Holland Cotter joined the staff of The New York Times in 1998, after six years of freelancing for the paper. Over the last decade, he has focused often on Asian art—and the recent swell of interest in this area has given his work a new centrality. Cotter’s following, however, stems from the sheer quality of his style,...

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