New York Times
From NYT AME/News
Richard Berke's "Talk to the Newsroom" transcript:
Q: How many times do we have to hear about how "hard working" and "underpaid" newspaper reporters are? It seems like half of the Monday Business section (and substantially every article by Katharine Q. Seelye!) must mention these phenomena! -- Nathan
BERKE: But we are hard working! We are underpaid! And Kit Seelye is one of the finest (and most tenacious). As a veteran political reporter, she stared down the likes of Bob Dole and Al Gore. Now her subjects are newspaper and magazine editors around the country. Our own Bill Keller is not spared; I've seen her pry information out of him that he'd rather not share with the world. (It was her persistence -- we certainly didn't spoon feed it to her -- that led to her article about our plans to run advertisements on the front of the Times business section. I don't think Ms. Seelye is too sympathetic on journalists. If anything, she accurately captures the financial strains and uncertainty in our industry these days.
UPDATE: Berke points out that
"a quick check of our database shows that Kit has never used either the word 'hardworking' or 'underpaid' since she started covering the media in February 2005."
