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New York Times
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A Dream for the Dead
In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times history through artifacts housed in the Museum at The Times. The Oscar-winning director David Frankel knows a lot about movies and television. ('The Devil Wears Prada,' 'Marley and Me,' 'Sex and the City' and 'Entourage' are among his credits.) Magazines? Maybe not so much. In the mid-90s, Mr. Frankel dreamed up Obit, a People-style magazine about the dead, covering worthy figures whose passing had gone unrecorded or insufficiently noted in the newspapers. His father thought it was a nifty idea. His father was Max Frankel (1930-2025), then the executive editor of The New York Times, who often turned first to the obituary pages when he picked up his morning paper. 'Dad encouraged me to share Obit with a few publishers I knew, and they thought it was the dumbest idea they'd ever heard,' David recounted at his father's memorial service on June 18. 'Because magazines depend on advertising, and who would want their product advertised in the pages of Obit?' Max urged David to make one last pitch to Jack Rosenthal (1935-2017), then the editor of The Times Magazine. As there was traditionally little advertising in the first issue after Christmas, Mr. Rosenthal offered to publish a version of Obit then. 'Only he wouldn't call it Obit — sigh — he'd call it Lives Well Lived,' David said. A copy of the first issue, Jan. 1, 1995, is in the Museum at The Times. In an introduction, the editors explained they had chosen 'well-known people about whom there is nonetheless more to say,' 'half-forgotten people about whom there is much to say,' and 'people for whom we found a special witness.' Forty lives were chronicled in Lives Well Lived. Among them were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Kurt Cobain; Ralph Ellison; Richard Nixon; the Olympic medalist Wilma Rudolph; and the inventors or creators of 'Meet the Press,' decorative shower curtains, Teflon and Levittown. The experiment was such a success that it was made a permanent year-end feature in 1995, under the name The Lives They Lived. It has long been overseen by Ilena Silverman, the deputy editor of The Magazine, who said the section may be more popular today than ever. 'With news flying at us day and night, it's a respite to immerse yourself in a piece of writing that's not about this very moment but about a full, complex life,' Ms. Silverman wrote in an email last week. 'And writers love it too, delighting in the challenge of trying to create compelling character studies in miniature.' And yes, she said in response to my question, the editors do hope to publish something about David's father in the next issue.
New York Times
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Corrections: March 26, 2025
An obituary on Monday about Max Frankel, a former executive editor of The New York Times, referred incorrectly to the impact of the 1987 stock market crash. It led to an advertising slump in the newspaper industry, not a national recession. The obituary also misstated the position Richard C. Holbrooke held at the United Nations. He was the U.S. ambassador to that body, not a delegate to it. A Times Insider article on Monday about a New York Times journalist's coverage of the U.S. auto industry misidentified the founders of Tesla. The company was co-founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, not Elon Musk. (Mr. Musk, the current chief executive of the company, was an early investor in Tesla.) An article on March 18 about exemptions from military service in Israel misstated the extent of military exemptions for ultra-Orthodox men. From 1948 to 1977, annual exemptions were capped, meaning some, not all, ultra-Orthodox men were exempt from mandatory military service. An article on Tuesday about a vote that could secure child care vouchers for low-income families in New York City misstated the surname of the chief policy and innovation officer of the Day Care Council of New York. He is Gregory Brender, not Bender. An article on Saturday about the artwork of the novelist Flannery O'Connor, based on information from Georgia College & State University, misstated Louise Florencourt's age when she died. She was 97, not 99. An article on Saturday about the Japanese musician and visual artist Hiroshi Yoshimura misstated which album Brian Eno made after an automobile accident. It was 'Discreet Music,' not 'Ambient 1: Music for Airports.' An article on March 18 about the growth of an online DIY subculture focused on quitting psychiatric medications misidentified Dr. Mark Horowitz, the co-author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines. He is a psychiatric resident, not a psychiatrist. Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions. To contact the newsroom regarding correction requests, please email nytnews@ To share feedback, please visit Comments on opinion articles may be emailed to letters@ For newspaper delivery questions: 1-800-NYTIMES (1-800-698-4637) or email customercare@
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Max Frankel, Pulitzer Prize-Winner and Former NYT Executive Editor, Dies at 94
Max Frankel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times corresponded who would rise to become its executive editor, has died, his wife confirmed to the paper on Sunday. He was 94. Frankel died Sunday in his Manhattan home, wife Joyce Purnick, herself a former reporter and editor at The Times, said. Frankel fled Nazi Germany as a child and came to New York not knowing any English. He gravitated toward journalism, a career that would see him rise to the summit of his profession, befriending world leaders and leading the Times during eight years of great change and turmoil on the global stage. Frankel went with Richard Nixon to China on his 1972 mission to normalize relations, and chronicled the president's meetings with Mao and Chou En-lai, along the way giving American readers a look into the lives of everyday Chinese, who had been in isolation since the Communist revolution of 1949. His 24 articles in those eight days won the 1973 Pulitzer for international reporting. Frankel served as the Times' opinions editor and later executive editor from 1986 to 1994, a time of mostly massive growth for the storied newspaper. More to come … The post Max Frankel, Pulitzer Prize-Winner and Former NYT Executive Editor, Dies at 94 appeared first on TheWrap.
New York Times
23-03-2025
- General
- New York Times
Max Frankel, Top Times Editor Who Led a Newspaper in Transition, Dies at 94
Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as boy and rose to pinnacles of American journalism as a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and later as its executive editor during eight years of changing fortunes and technology, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 94. His wife, Joyce Purnick, a former reporter and editor at The Times, confirmed the death. Mr. Frankel landed in New York in 1940 without a word of English, a refugee in knickerbockers with European sensibilities for opera, art, languages and mathematics. But he found his calling in journalism, and it led to global news assignments, associations with world leaders, the pantheon of Pulitzer honorees and the editorships, successively, of The Times's opinion pages and of its news coverage. It thrust him, too, into the major events of his era — the Cuban missile crisis, the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union — and into the Moscow of Nikita S. Khrushchev, the Havana of Fidel Castro, the Peking of Mao Zedong and the Washington of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. Accompanying Nixon to China in 1972 on a historic mission to establish contacts after decades of estrangement, Mr. Frankel, then chief of The Times's Washington bureau, chronicled the president's meetings with Mao and China's premier, Chou En-lai, analyzed the news and, in Reporter's Notebook pieces, took readers into the homes, factories and lives of a people who had been isolated since the 1949 Communist revolution. He wrote 35,000 words and 24 articles in eight days in Shanghai, Peking (now Beijing) and Hangchow (Hangzhou), and won the 1973 Pulitzer for international reporting. Mr. Frankel talked to the reporter Hedrick Smith at The Times's Washington bureau in 1969. Mr. Frankel was the bureau chief and the chief Washington correspondent at the time. Credit... George Tames/The New York Times Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
