Widely Cited

The Times is one of the first major news organizations to take a firm stand against a growing and disliked practice.

The Times has dismantled its environmental pod and discontinued the Green blog.

The public editor looks into a test drive of an electric car that caused a storm.

The statistical wizard's offer to wager on the outcome of the presidential race is a bad choice.

How does The Times decide which comments to post on NYTimes.com? The public editor gets answers from The Times's online commenting managers.

Readers complained to the public editor over The Times's decision to display a photograph of the unconscious ambassador in Libya.

Government Secrecy and Bradley Manning

Those who reveal classified material are being punished like never before.

When the government asks newspapers to keep quiet, the bar should be very high for saying yes.

Editors were asked by the C.I.A. to withhold information and did so for months before publishing it online Tuesday night.

Scott Shane, a Times national security reporter, was referred to in the government’s prosecution of a former C.I.A. official.

Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks are a major story for The Times, so why was the paper so late to cover the soldier’s pretrial hearing?

The testimony is riveting and the surrounding issues are newsworthy.

Just who is it that the United States is killing with strikes by unmanned aircraft in Yemen and Pakistan?

The First Amendment matters for many reasons, some of them not on the world stage.

False Balance and Objectivity in Reporting

The public editor travels to Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. With audio.

Is the concept outdated or even more important in the new media era?

The journalistic ideal of impartiality is coming under attack. My column for this week.

The public editor speaks with Times editors about how they plan to fact-check the first presidential debate.

When opinion appears in news pages, it needs to be labeled and displayed as just that.

Whatever the conclusions, whatever the effectiveness, of challenging facts, the idea that we have to debate the necessity of the media doing so strikes me as absurd.

Language and Semantics

The Times is reconsidering the use of the term "illegal immigrant."

An article coyly wrote around a business name that used an unprintable word according to The Times's standards.

A crisis in North Africa and a reader’s query bring up crucial distinctions in usage.

Families are rightfully upset by some of the early reporting done on the Newtown, Conn., shootings.

The research and development team’s Chronicle tool may distract you while you’re waiting for the returns to come in.

Unidentified sources make it difficult for readers to know what to believe regarding negotiations between the United States and Iran.

The public editor's judgment is not about immigration reform; it's about clarity and accuracy.

An activist wants The Times to stop using the term "illegal immigrant" in its reporting.

Gender, Race and Ethnicity

After criticism on Twitter and elsewhere, the first sentence of an obituary for Yvonne Brill was changed.

A front-page article involving the New York Police Department's internal communication could have provided greater context.

A headline ignites a discussion about its "undermining" question.

News organizations should evaluate the motivations of parents who want to take their child’s story public.

Parental approval and the child’s own willingness should rule the day.

Readers complained about the absence of people of color in T: The Times Style Magazine.

The Times Magazine interviewer offended some high-profile female writers with his questions.

Where, after what seemed like women's night on Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention, was the coverage of pay equity, along with gender-economic issues in general?

Culture Criticism

Michael Kimmelman views architecture in terms of public policy as well as aesthetics.

The criticism of a new restaurant in Times Square was delicious, even if the food was not.

The critic Pete Wells gave his first “poor” restaurant rating in The Times -- and he did it memorably.

Cathy Horyn's work can't please everyone -- but this is ridiculous.