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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

New York Times Employment Columnist Now Unemployed

For the last year and a half, New York Times columnist Marci Alboher wrote about other people’s jobs. Yesterday, she wrote about her own–the one she no longer has at the paper. Since she was a contractor, this doesn’t count as a violation of Executive Editor Bill Keller’s “no more layoffs, we hope” kind-of pledge. But the Times is going to have a hard time keeping its existing payroll intact.

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Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider.

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Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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