“Work here for five years, go to a high-circulation regional newspaper, then try The New York Times in about 10 years.”
That was more or less the advice that I, as an aspiring and ambitious young reporter, received from a few mentors when I graduated from college. It wasn't all that long ago, but it illustrates the enormous changes that have occurred in the media world in the past decade and the regard in which senior journalists held The Times. ...