speaking as the editor of this post, if you're an editor writing great headlines and not an editor shooting the shit with writers about puns for a half hour until someone farts out something genius, you're not doing it right

In an appearance before a press-rights group in New York this evening, New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger had some pointed words for his peers atop U.S. media organizations.

New PRESS BOX: How to Interview Wemby Our Clipping Nightmare Bari Weiss Dad Books RIP The Best Story About Star Wars PLUS: Stephen Colbert's last stand w/ @zinoman open.spotify.com/episode/5Fb…

This @Zinoman piece is one of the best things I’ve read all year — heartfelt, comprehensive, well-written, and capturing Martin Short at his wisest and very best. Highly recommended: nytimes.com/2026/05/15/movie…

A legend. Already miss her, and she's not even gone yet.

Michael Frayn at 92 - on fine intellectual form, despite a brush with death. "I think there’s something a bit ridiculous about some committee somewhere deciding that some people should constitute a different class from other people." telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what…

I was surprised by this answer — and the one about whether Eddie Murphy is funnier stoned.

After three years off this platform, I'm back on because of what's happened at @washingtonpost and what we're trying to do about it at @CityCast_DC. We're going to start hiring journalists immediately to make sure DC continues to have great, useful, ambitious local journalism...

Making it into the box score of the Washington Post as a high school basketball player was my proudest moment in print.

It seems like only yesterday that nearly every American newspaper, dozens and dozens of them, even in mid-size cities, ran book reviews by local critics. The alt-weeklies (I wrote for many of them) were everywhere and had feisty and boisterous book sections. Time, Newsweek and other weeklies had serious critics who mattered to the conversation. All this is gone. The stamping out of the Washington’s Post’s excellent book section - one of the last standing - ends an era. It’s a turning point in America's literature, which can’t thrive without serious and ardent criticism - aka public talk, back and forth, between competing voices, in something like real time. The silence out there is good for no one. Gloom suddenly feels like eclipse.

"Which is it? Do Jews tell Nazi jokes to cope with antisemitism or is it freedom from antisemitism that allows us to joke about Nazis? Probably both."🎯-@zinoman nytimes.com/2026/02/03/arts/…

New one.

Thank you LA Press Club.

Gloriously indefensible

"Life is filled with comedy and tragedy, and they don’t always exist apart." - @zinoman at his best. nytimes.com/2025/11/21/arts/… via @NYTimes

Fantastic interview of a comedy genius. Great work by @Zinoman nytimes.com/2025/10/17/arts/…

So grateful for this clown write up in the @nytimes by @zinoman thanks Jason!nytimes.com/2025/10/07/arts/…