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April 2, 2009 - In the News

Philip Taubman, CISAC consulting professor and former associate editor of the New York Times, introduced Bill Keller, the Times' executive editor, April 2 in Kresge Auditorium on the occasion of the dedication of the Stanford Daily's new campus building. In a conversation with Taubman, Keller discussed, the "Next Life of Newspapers." The audio interview can be downloaded from Stanford on iTunes at http://itunes.stanford.edu/.

The Next Life of Newspapers

About Bill Keller:
Bill Keller is executive editor of The New York Times.

Before becoming executive editor in July 2003, Mr. Keller had been an Op-Ed columnist and senior writer for The New York Times Magazine as well as other areas of the newspaper since September 2001. He served as managing editor from 1997 to September 2001 after having been the newspaper's foreign editor from June 1995 to 1997. He was the chief of The Times bureau in Johannesburg from April 1992 until May 1995.

From December 1986 to October 1991, Mr. Keller was a Times correspondent in Moscow, serving as bureau chief during his last three years there. In 1989, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Soviet Union. Mr. Keller joined The New York Times in 1984 as a domestic correspondent based in the Washington bureau.

Before coming to The Times, Mr. Keller was a reporter for The Dallas Times Herald, the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report in Washington and The Portland Oregonian.
Mr. Keller graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. degree in 1970 and is a member of the college's board of trustees.

About Phil Taubman:
Phil Taubman is a consulting professor at Stanford University and former reporter and editor at the New York Times. 


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