Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page

“Politically incorrect and hilarious. To discover what really goes on inside the belly of the media beast, read this book.”

Bill Maher

Outspoken art director Jerelle Kraus quit her dream job to write the only whistle-blowing book about censorship at The Times. Released by Columbia University Press, it’s also the first book to document the tradition-shattering Op-Ed story.

Op-Ed (meaning Opposite the Editorial page), was born in 1970, when The Times launched the world’s first newspaper page with non-staff bylines. The new page prefigured the blogosphere by a quarter century, but it came into existence only after in-house calamity.