The NYT Hires Its Savior this Season

 Just hope he's as good as the press release promises.  An awful lot is being put on this one person to save the paper, I think, after the Ezra Klien mentality took  over, and the activists seized power from the legacies running the shop...

I'm just glad they are recognizing the need to focus on content and reporting again, and stop dumping so much money into little graphics that help the stories "move".  Literally, not with the written words.

Eli Saslow is simply one of the best writers in American journalism. That’s why we are thrilled to announce that he will be joining The Times as a writer at large.

Eli takes on some of the biggest and most sensitive issues in American life — gun violence, poverty, immigration, the opioid epidemic — and helps readers understand how the most vulnerable people are affected. He writes nuanced narrative stories that convey a deep sense of empathy for his subjects, burrowing inside their lives without ever passing judgment, and providing a sense of intimacy that’s extraordinarily rare in daily journalism. ...

At The Times, Eli will continue to write his signature narrative stories chronicling people across the country whose lives intersect with national themes.