Byron Calame
Byron Calame
Byron "Barney" Calameis an American journalist. He worked at the Wall Street Journal for 39 years, retiring as deputy managing editor in 2004. In 2005, he became the second public editor of the New York Times for a fixed two-year term...
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For the first time since I became public editor, the executive editor and the publisher have declined to respond to my requests for information about news-related decision-making.
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I have had unusual difficulty getting a better explanation for readers, despite the paper's repeated pledges of greater transparency.
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These two changes are profoundly altering the role of confidential sources.
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I see transparency as a default position for all those who want to do good journalism. I simply am not sure what the right degree of transparency is, and my not being sure is really a product of my some nine months now as the public editor at the Times.