The New York Times selected Arthur S. Brisbane, a longtime journalist who has been a reporter and editor at
The Washington Post, the editor and publisher of
The Kansas City Star
and a senior executive at Knight Ridder, as its next public editor, beginning this summer. Brisbane will become the fourth public editor of
The New York Times.
Brisbane, who is the grandson of the legendary Hearst editor Arthur Brisbane, said he expected to tackle a wide variety of subjects during his three-year term, including the affect on The
Times' journalistic standards of publishing articles for the Web on tight deadlines.
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