Times staffers received this memo early Monday morning:
From: Jolly, Tom
Date: May 2, 2011 4:15:37 AM EDT
To:
Subject: Two style decisions
At Jill and Bill’s request, we dropped the honorific for Bin Laden.
Without a “Mr.” in front of his name, it was decided that we should capitalize the “B” in Bin Laden on second references.
Thanks.
—
Tom Jolly
Associate Managing Editor / Night News
The New York Times
212-556-7197
http://twitter.com/tomjolly
http://facebook.com/Jolly.nytimes
http://nytimes.com
Comments