Everything You Need To Know...

...about the NYT can be summed up in just one paragraph from, of all places, Paul Goldberger's New Yorker review of the new Renzo Piano-designed NYT headquarters off Times Square.

Many of the reporters I spoke to didn’t think much of their new digs. Journalists, of course, love to grouse, but they also don’t like to be regimented, and just about every single workspace here is identical. In a nice, democratic gesture, most of the building’s perimeter has been left open, bringing in lots of natural light, and the private offices for editors all have glass walls facing into the newsroom. One member of the editorial board, who gave up a large, enclosed office in the old building for one of these small fishbowls, growled to me, “There’s no place I can change into a tuxedo.” Undermining the egalitarian topography, Bill Keller, the executive editor, has rigged up a screen of frosted glass inside his office so that he can’t be seen from the newsroom when he sits at his desk.

I wonder if Keller's concern is prying eyes while he's on the phone negotiating the details of a deal to run a story about warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and the like.

Rendering: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, FXFowle