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Jacques Steinberg

• November 1 -- The Times Finally Checks Out Its Own Scoop
The Times finally questions ("Why is this coming out in the week before the election?") its suspiciously timed "scoop" on missing Iraq explosives -- on the back pages of the Saturday edition.

• May 10 -- Bush's "Chilling Effect" on Broadcasters
A front-page story by Jacques Steinberg using the emotionally fraught term "chilling effect" to describe the effect the Bush administration is having on broadcasters regarding obscenity, but provides no evidence Bush is behind the F.C.C.'s actions.

• February 27 -- Jayson’s Back…And In the Bookstore
Times media reporter Jacques Steinberg reported briefly on the forthcoming Jayson Blair memoir. Executive Editor Bill Keller declared: "We don't intend to respond to Jayson or his book.” In the next sentence, the Times responded. “Yesterday Catherine J. Mathis, a spokeswoman for The Times, said: ‘The events of last spring were deeply painful to The Times and its staff…’”

• October 27 -- Times Appoints First-Ever Public Editor
The Times announces the appointment of a former Life magazine editor, Daniel Okrent, as the paper's ombudsman. A colleague of Okrent remarks: "He loves fairness and accuracy." Times Watch hopes that turns out to be true.

• August 8 -- Gerald Who?
Condoleezza Rice spoke to a convention of black journalists in Dallas, and media reporter Jacques Steinberg delivered a straightforward account. Yet Steinberg makes no mention of the afternoon speaker: Gerald Boyd, the former Times managing editor who resigned with Howell Raines.

• July 15 -- The Times Newsroom Lets Off Some Steam
Tuesday’s Times media reporter Jacques Steinberg’s piece on Bill Keller’s imminent ascension to the executive editor’s slot (effective July 30) lets off some internal newsroom steam against pushed-out executive editor Howell Raines.