Joseph Lelyveld, who won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for his book, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, and was a former executive editor and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, died on Friday at his Manhattan home.
He was 86 and succumbed to complications of Parkinson’s disease, according to Janny Scott, his partner of 19 years and a former Times reporter.
Lelyveld was reported from Washington, Congo, India, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and London during his long career.
He served as the Times executive editor from 1994 to 2001, arguably the most powerful post in American journalism. He oversaw a newspaper transitioning to the digital age, ushering in the New York Times website and the beginning of 24-hour news coverage.
Lelyveld retired a week before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. However, in June 2003, he returned to the top post in the wake of disclosures of journalistic fraud and plagiarism by a reporter,...
He was 86 and succumbed to complications of Parkinson’s disease, according to Janny Scott, his partner of 19 years and a former Times reporter.
Lelyveld was reported from Washington, Congo, India, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and London during his long career.
He served as the Times executive editor from 1994 to 2001, arguably the most powerful post in American journalism. He oversaw a newspaper transitioning to the digital age, ushering in the New York Times website and the beginning of 24-hour news coverage.
Lelyveld retired a week before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. However, in June 2003, he returned to the top post in the wake of disclosures of journalistic fraud and plagiarism by a reporter,...
- 1/6/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Variety and Rolling Stone will co-host their first-ever Criminal Justice Reform Summit next month in Los Angeles.
Featuring CNN host and activist Van Jones, as well as Kim Kardashian West and hip-hop artist Meek Mill, the Nov. 14 event will bring together the entertainment, philanthropic, advocacy and policymaking communities to drive criminal justice reform.
Jones will keynote the conference by talking about the failings of the American criminal justice system with Kardashian West, who recently began leveraging her celebrity platform to advocate for prison reform with D.C.’s top policymakers. Notably, she aided in the early release of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender who spent 21 years in prison, after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House.
“Not only do we face a mass incarceration problem in the United States, but almost 60 percent of inmates currently in prison or jail are racial and ethnic minorities,” said Jones,...
Featuring CNN host and activist Van Jones, as well as Kim Kardashian West and hip-hop artist Meek Mill, the Nov. 14 event will bring together the entertainment, philanthropic, advocacy and policymaking communities to drive criminal justice reform.
Jones will keynote the conference by talking about the failings of the American criminal justice system with Kardashian West, who recently began leveraging her celebrity platform to advocate for prison reform with D.C.’s top policymakers. Notably, she aided in the early release of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender who spent 21 years in prison, after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House.
“Not only do we face a mass incarceration problem in the United States, but almost 60 percent of inmates currently in prison or jail are racial and ethnic minorities,” said Jones,...
- 10/26/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Kim Kardashian, Meek Mill and Alicia Keys will be among the speakers at the upcoming Criminal Justice Reform Summit co-hosted by Rolling Stone and Variety. The event, featuring a keynote address and conversation with activist Van Jones, will take place November 14th at Los Angeles’ Jeremy Hotel.
The summit aims to join together the entertainment, philanthropic, advocacy and policymaking communities and harness the power of entertainment to drive criminal justice reform. It will feature panel discussions about the importance of sharing the stories of former inmates, the ways in which...
The summit aims to join together the entertainment, philanthropic, advocacy and policymaking communities and harness the power of entertainment to drive criminal justice reform. It will feature panel discussions about the importance of sharing the stories of former inmates, the ways in which...
- 10/25/2018
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Lisa Bonchek Adams shared her breast cancer battle with strangers through tweets and blogs online.
On Friday, the mother of three passed away at 9:45 pm.
"The thousands upon thousands who knew and loved Lisa Bonchek Adams; whether in person or via Facebook, Twitter, or her website and blog read around the world; whether up close or from afar; will find it hard to believe that her steely will and indomitable spirit were finally overcome by the disease she had lived with for so many years," her website now says.
Adams shared her story in more than 176,000 tweets and regular blog posts. Her Twitter account had 15,300 followers, and she wrote that more than 10,000 visitors a day went to her website.
Recently, on Feb. 26, she tweeted out a beautiful message. "Make the most of this day. Whatever that means to you, whatever you can do, no matter how small it seems," she said.
News:...
On Friday, the mother of three passed away at 9:45 pm.
"The thousands upon thousands who knew and loved Lisa Bonchek Adams; whether in person or via Facebook, Twitter, or her website and blog read around the world; whether up close or from afar; will find it hard to believe that her steely will and indomitable spirit were finally overcome by the disease she had lived with for so many years," her website now says.
Adams shared her story in more than 176,000 tweets and regular blog posts. Her Twitter account had 15,300 followers, and she wrote that more than 10,000 visitors a day went to her website.
Recently, on Feb. 26, she tweeted out a beautiful message. "Make the most of this day. Whatever that means to you, whatever you can do, no matter how small it seems," she said.
News:...
- 3/7/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
The revelation that Jill Abramson may have been fired as executive editor of The New York Times after confronting top brass over being paid less than her predecessor Bill Keller has led to a Twitter uproar. Media writers including journalism professor Emily Bell, influential women bloggers like Rachel Sklar, non-profit organizations and casual observers alike balked at the idea that a woman might have lost her job for bringing up an issue of equal pay. One blogger dryly referred to Abramson being too “bossy,” a reference to Sheryl Sandberg's new “Ban Bossy” campaign. And while The New York Times denied that.
- 5/15/2014
- by L.A. Ross
- The Wrap
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen took aim at her former colleague, ex-New York Times columnist Bill Keller over a controversial column about a woman with cancer that raised a storm of criticism among readers. Speaking at an event to promote her new novel, “Still Life With Crumbs,” Quindlen responded to an audience question about Keller by saying she was “made uncomfortable” over the fact that Keller and his wife Emma Gilbey Keller wrote about “the same subject, the same woman.” Quindlen said she was further bothered about whether the cancer patient in question, Lisa Bonchek Adams, knew that Keller had written.
- 2/20/2014
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
New York Times columnist Bill Keller is departing the newspaper to become editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news startup that covers the U.S. criminal justice system. Keller also was executive editor of The Times from 2003-11. Prior to that, he served as Moscow and Johannesburg bureau chief, foreign editor and managing editor. Andrew Rosenthal, editor of The Times' editorial page, told the paper that he was surprised that Keller was leaving. “But what an amazing opportunity,” Rosenthal said. “If you want to do something new, this is a great area. My first thought,
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- 2/10/2014
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York Times columnist Bill Keller, the former executive editor of the paper, is leaving to become editor in chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit journalism start-up focused on the American criminal justice system. “It’s a chance to build something from scratch, which I’ve never done before,” Keller said in a Times story Sunday announcing the change, “and to use all the tools that digital technology offers journalists in terms of ways to investigate and to present on a subject that really matters personally.” Keller won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting as a correspondent in Moscow; chronicled the collapse.
- 2/10/2014
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan posted a column Monday afternoon largely in defense of columnist Bill Keller’s controversial Sunday opinion story about breast cancer blogger Lisa Adams while acknowledging his piece had issues with “tone and sensitivity.” “I don’t make a practice of commenting on whether or not I agree with columnists, or whether or not I like their columns in general or on a particular day,” Sullivan, who serves in an ombudsman-like capacity, wrote about the column penned by the paper’s former executive editor. “In this case, I’ll go so far as to say that there are issues.
- 1/14/2014
- by L.A. Ross
- The Wrap
New York Times columnist Bill Keller has whipped up an online backlash over a recent opinion piece that used stage 4 cancer patient and blogger Lisa Adams to question the wisdom and efficacy of expensive medical treatments. Adams and her defenders were quick to slam Keller, the paper’s former executive editor, as insensitive and tone-deaf. “The main thing is that I am alive,” Adams tweeted after Keller’s piece hit. “Do not write me off and make statements about how my life ends Til It Does, Sir.” Keller used his father-in-law’s decision not to participate in research trials and take experimental drugs as.
- 1/13/2014
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
CNN this morning will premiere new host Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources, a show that examines how journalists do their jobs and how the media affect the stories they cover. Stelter’s guests include The New York Times’ Bill Keller and Ryan Seacrest. EW asked Stelter, a former TV reporter for The New York Times, to answer a few questions about his new gig.
Why is this show still relevant? “Reliable Sources has been on the air on one form or another for a couple of decades. And it’s really one of the only shows on television that looks...
Why is this show still relevant? “Reliable Sources has been on the air on one form or another for a couple of decades. And it’s really one of the only shows on television that looks...
- 12/8/2013
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
Bradley Manning, the United States Army soldier who in 2010 was arrested for having passed along classified materials to the website WikiLeaks, was found not guilty on Tuesday on charges of "aiding the enemy," but was convicted on 17 of 22 charges -- including five counts of espionage and theft. Even though the verdict is only a day old, already several movies are in the works, looking to dramatize Manning's story.
Last year, Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney ("No End in Sight," "Taxi to the Dark Side") and producer Marc Shmuger, the filmmakers behind this year's "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," optioned the rights to Denver Nicks's nonfiction account "Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History."
According to Variety, Gibney and Shmuger are looking to develop a drama, rather than another documentary like "We Steal Secrets."
In September, "The Fifth Estate," which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,...
Last year, Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney ("No End in Sight," "Taxi to the Dark Side") and producer Marc Shmuger, the filmmakers behind this year's "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," optioned the rights to Denver Nicks's nonfiction account "Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History."
According to Variety, Gibney and Shmuger are looking to develop a drama, rather than another documentary like "We Steal Secrets."
In September, "The Fifth Estate," which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,...
- 7/31/2013
- by Drew Taylor
- Moviefone
Two-Lane Blacktop
Directed by Monte Hellman
Written by Rudy Wurlitzer and Will Cory
1971, USA
Two-Lane Blacktop just might be the greatest car movie ever made. This quiet, anti-narrative, masterpiece, and bonafide cult classic is the best of the ‘existential road-trip’ movies, and one of the greatest American films made in the early 70′s. As the pinnacle of director Monte Hellman’s career, it ages better with time. As much as Monte Hellman’s 1971 road movie will forever be associated with Easy Rider, it also springs to mind Dirty Mary Crazy Larry and Vanishing Point. But unlike those two films, Hellman is less interested in allegory nor in the race itself. For a movie about a race, it moves incredibly slow. Two-Lane Blacktop instead explores how three men head out to nowhere in particular. Hellman is interested in the process whereby a passion is subtly transformed into an obsession – and as...
Directed by Monte Hellman
Written by Rudy Wurlitzer and Will Cory
1971, USA
Two-Lane Blacktop just might be the greatest car movie ever made. This quiet, anti-narrative, masterpiece, and bonafide cult classic is the best of the ‘existential road-trip’ movies, and one of the greatest American films made in the early 70′s. As the pinnacle of director Monte Hellman’s career, it ages better with time. As much as Monte Hellman’s 1971 road movie will forever be associated with Easy Rider, it also springs to mind Dirty Mary Crazy Larry and Vanishing Point. But unlike those two films, Hellman is less interested in allegory nor in the race itself. For a movie about a race, it moves incredibly slow. Two-Lane Blacktop instead explores how three men head out to nowhere in particular. Hellman is interested in the process whereby a passion is subtly transformed into an obsession – and as...
- 6/7/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
NEW YORK -- Reporter Judith Miller, who spent 84 days in jail earlier this year after refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury investigating the CIA leak case and became a lightning rod for controversy, resigned Wednesday from the New York Times. In a memo to staff Wednesday afternoon, executive editor Bill Keller announced Miller's retirement after 28 years at the newspaper as both an editor and a reporter. It capped a weeks-long controversy that boiled over after Keller and the Times criticized her role in the CIA leak case and her relationship with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
- 11/9/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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