Bill Keller
Bill Keller
Bill Kelleris an American journalist. He is a writer for The New York Times, where he was executive editor from July 2003 until September 2011. He announced on June 2, 2011, that he would step down from the position to become a full-time writer. Jill Abramson replaced him as executive editor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 January 1949
CountryUnited States of America
views media tools
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
technology printing presses
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
thinking names done
I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.
thinking treasure privacy
Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.
ideas giving competition
One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.
couple believe gay
Most recently, the President's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum -- a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay lovers in their bedrooms, or even to criminalize couples who use contraceptives -- was an occasion to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Bush was born-again into.
abet may enough
Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
nice media rings
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
thinking crowds fabulous
I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings.
want internet pundits
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
children would-be journalism
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
country religious rights
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
thinking media credit
I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
mean movement ends
Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.