World & Nation
Pete Hamill, the eloquent voice of his beloved hometown of New York as both newspaper columnist and bestselling author, died Wednesday morning.
Aug. 5, 2020
Books
A veteran reporter decides to quit when his newspaper converts to a Web-only publication. But he still has stories to chase.
May 8, 2011
Book review: ‘Tabloid City’ by Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill, the New York Post’s editor-icon, returned to work at the tabloid Tuesday, grinning at the cheers of his newsroom colleagues and declaring that he intended to get out a paper.
March 17, 1993
Acclaimed writer Pete Hamill, hired just nine months ago to stem a circulation slide and inject some street smarts into the city’s largest tabloid, resigned Thursday as editor in chief of the Daily News, the newspaper said.
Sept. 5, 1997
Warm and snug in the Lion’s Head as an icy rain lashes the Greenwich Village streets outside, Pete Hamill is recalling when this bar built its following in the late ‘60s.
Feb. 3, 1994
A DRINKING LIFE: A Memoir by Pete Hamill (Back Bay Books: $11.95; 263 pp.).
April 9, 1995
Late in 1969, after five years as a daily newspaper columnist in Atlanta and the reward of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, I was summoned to New York to see if I wanted to take my act to the mother of cities.
Jan. 23, 1994
Television
This week marked a grim chapter in the ongoing saga of American journalism, with sweeping layoffs at Gannett newspapers and heralded digital outlets HuffPost and BuzzFeed.
Jan. 26, 2019
Movies
Woody Allen is such a notoriously private filmmaker it’s not surprising to learn that once he found a set photographer he trusted, he never used another one.
Dec. 2, 1995