Romenesko

Editor & Publisher
Departing Times Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman says the biggest misconception about the bureau is "that it is a mean place to work, that there are rivalries and backstabbing. That is just dead wrong." He tells Joe Strupp: "The attacks on the paper, the chilly attitude of the Bush administration are factors in the life of the New York Times Washington bureau. We have continued to do what we came here to do. The noise that sometimes surrounds the New York Times has never stopped us from doing that."