@NYTResearch

News Research Desk of The New York Times. Contributor: Jack Begg

 Times Square
nytimes.com
Joined June 2011
  • Tweets106
  • Following37
  • Followers1.1K
See tomorrow’s NYT front page. A labor of Hercules by our researcher Alain Delaquérière: nyti.ms/2LXu4dS
2
1
3
It's as if, like Joan of Arc facing her inquisitors, she had been instructed by an inner voice to "answer them boldly." Did she ever! The miracle is that, despite the raging indictment, there is a distinct and unmistakable holiness about the girl. youtube.com/watch?v=u9KxE4Kv…
Even if you've seen this video of Greta Thunberg speaking at the U.N. climate summit on Monday, see it again. Greta seemed to channel the Earth itself -- an Earth that's been condemned to death...
Poniewozik nails it: “He’s half-man, half-TV, with a camera for an eye that is constantly focused on itself.” nytimes.com/2019/09/06/opini…

Opinion | The Real Donald Trump Is a Character on TV (Published 2019)

Understand that, and you’ll understand what he’s doing in the White House.

nytimes.com
Never — ever — have we worked two mass shootings simultaneously. Incredible.
1
Yes, Chuck -- research librarians know books and they're cool about it, but...they don't have "plenty of free time:" nyti.ms/2Y47cBt

Chuck Klosterman Likes Writers Who Aren’t Self-Absorbed Sociopaths (Published 2019)

The cultural critic and author, most recently, of the story collection “Raised in Captivity” also says that he trusts librarians’ literary opinions: “They have no agenda and plenty of free time.”

nytimes.com
"They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” Two Generations of Humans have Killed Off Half the World’s Wildlife Populations: bit.ly/2EV2m10
“We are living in the middle of a mass extinction today. But none of us feel that urgency, or that it really is so.” theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…

The Nastiest Feud in Science

A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that...

theatlantic.com
Very clever illustration. And read to the very end for the in-joke. nytimes.com/2018/08/13/insid… – at Annapolis, MD

Meet The Times’s ‘Mini Detective Agency’ (Published 2018)

The bylines of Times researchers are unassuming, but their work informs some of the paper’s biggest stories.

nytimes.com
1
3
3
Read it and weep. The villain in this story? John Sununu. nyti.ms/2mWMDT8 – at Annapolis, MD
1
1
EOTW: "...another sign of a marine ecosystem in collapse...Things are out of whack...And the clock is ticking." nytimes.com/2018/07/09/scien… – at Annapolis, MD

Orcas of the Pacific Northwest Are Starving and Disappearing (Published 2018)

The population of endangered killer whales has hit a 30-year low, numbering only 75 this year.

nytimes.com
1
EOTW: "In all, the world’s tropical forests lost roughly 39 million acres of trees last year, an area roughly the size of Bangladesh..." nytimes.com/2018/06/27/clima…

Tropical Forests Suffered Near-Record Tree Losses in 2017 (Published 2018)

New satellite data reveals that the world’s tropical forests lost roughly 39 million acres of trees last year — an area the size of Bangladesh.

nytimes.com
EOTW: "'What do I do? Shall I smash my head into a wall? How long can I live here?'” nytimes.com/2018/06/10/world…

‘The Dump Killed My Son’: Mountains of Garbage Engulf India’s Capital (Published 2018)

On top of polluted air and water, New Delhi is being forced to grapple with trash dumps growing so large that they are killing people.

nytimes.com
EOTW: "The world we know is moving to its end..." goo.gl/sdN2Er – at Annapolis, MD
Hey, Mr. President, did you think you could out-research the Research Department of The New York Times?? goo.gl/06wkOn

Our Articles on the Attacks Trump Says the Media Didn’t Cover (Published 2017)

Here is the Trump administration’s list of what it calls underreported terrorist attacks. The Times covered most of the attacks cited, many with multiple articles.

nytimes.com
2
1
Historians disagree on how the Electoral College came to be, but this explanation seems as good as any: goo.gl/m9KEeE
1
1
1
The Unified Field Theory of Donald Trump: goo.gl/ObAb5D
1
2
Our researcher raises the dead (in a manner of speaking): goo.gl/hZse1E
1
1
Our morgue scores: “Official Report of Proceedings of Democratic National Convention [1924] sourced in Dwyer’s col: nyti.ms/21vBPGB

G.O.P. Path Recalls Democrats’ Convention Disaster, in 1924 (Published 2016)

There were fistfights and major influence by the Ku Klux Klan during the party’s convention at Madison Square Garden, an existential battle over the meaning of America.

nytimes.com
Re: Serge Kovaleski – I’d ask Trump, Have you no decency? But I already know the answer. So I’ll ask his supporters: Aren’t you ashamed?
Load more