Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times

Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times

The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.

We’ve finally learned why Paul Krugman quit the Times - Kevin Drum

When Paul Krugman left the New York Times last year, it was kind of weird. He wrote a column saying the next one would be his last and then just disappeared. Did he suddenly learn he had six months to live? Was he unwilling to endure four years of column writing under Donald Trump? Or what? We finally know. Here it is from an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review: Krugman agreed that he could have stayed at the paper. But in an interview…

An interview with Paul Krugman on leaving the NYT in 2024 after his newsletter was killed and editing of his column “became extremely intrusive”, Substack, more

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