Blog Entry 3

James C. McKinley Jr. is a graduate of Cornell Unicersity. He began his career in journalism while still in college, working for local radio stations and stringing for the The Syracuse Post Standard. He started at The New York Times as a copyboy, eventually earning a spot on the staff. He covered the police department, city hall and Federal courts in Manhattan, before being named the Nairobi Bureau chief. He returned to New York, working as an investigative journalist in the Sports Department then as a political reporter in Albany. He was named Mexico City Bureau chief. Then he was transferred to Houston. Three years later, he was hired as the Times pop music reporter and returned again to New York City.

Margaret Sullivan is the fifth public editor appointed by The New York Times. The public editor works outside of the reporting and editing structure of the newspaper and receives and answers questions or comments from readers and the public, principally about news and other coverage in The Times.  Her opinions and conclusions are her own.

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