The Nytimes and its employees are deeply concerned with the prestige of the paper.
In fact, much of its terrible strategy when it came to digitization, major political moments, and its own journalistic integrity (The Jayson Blair affair comes to mind) stems from this navel gazing.
In fact, much of its terrible strategy when it came to digitization, major political moments, and its own journalistic integrity (The Jayson Blair affair comes to mind) stems from this navel gazing.
Customarily the ombudsmen is supposed to do what you describe; the NYTimes got rid of theirs in 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/public-editor/liz-spayd-f...