U.S. Supreme Court
Linda Greenhouse to Take N.Y. Times Buyout
Posted Feb 27, 2008, 06:13 pm CDT
By Martha Neil
Updated: A renowned legal journalist known for her decades of U.S. Supreme Court coverage has announced that she will be leaving the New York Times.
Linda Greenhouse, 61, says she had been planning to retire soon anyway, and has decided to accept a buyout package from the newspaper, reports the Associated Press.
Greenhouse will reportedly receive a $300,000 voluntary buyout. The buyout is based on two years of salary—$140,000 a year—and a bonus, the New York Observer reports.
After 30 years on the newspaper's Supreme Court beat, she has been at the nation's highest court longer than all of the current justices except for John Paul Stevens, who started in 1975. She worked at the Times for a decade before being assigned to the beat.
While at the Times, Greenhouse wrote numerous law review articles and one book, Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey. She won the Pulitzer Prize, journalism's highest honor, for her beat coverage of the court in 1998.
She plans to stay "actively engaged in thinking and writing about the court," and has speaking and academic writing engagements lined up.
Read about Greenhouse's favorite story.
Updated 1 p.m. Thursday to add buyout details.
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Posted by Joseph J. Chambers - 6 months, 12 hours, 6 minutes ago
Linda Greenhouse is a first-rate journalist. I will dearly miss her coverage of the US Supreme Court.
Posted by Georgene Vairo - 6 months, 8 hours, 30 minutes ago
She was always fair and balanced in her reporting. As a law professor, I was impressed that she always got the legal nuances. Most non-lawyer legal commentators, and even some lawyers, don’t always get it right. She’d have made a first rate lawyer, but I am grateful that instead she shared her acumen with the public as a reporter for the New York Times. Kudo’s and best wishes to her.
Posted by Robert L. Officer - 6 months, 7 hours, 33 minutes ago
This is a loss to journalism and law and the public at large for the reasons stated above. I hope this is a truly voluntary departure and not a result of the recent allegations of conflict in her reporting on cases involving her husband as an advocat. I’m glad to have heard her speak at Washington University a few weeks ago hope to have that privilege again.
Best wishes to Ms. Greenhouse.
Posted by Emily - 6 months, 5 hours, 46 minutes ago
Good for her (assuming it’s vuluntary, as Robert says). It’s great to read about someone who worked her way up and has truly enjoyed her career.
Posted by Emily - 6 months, 5 hours, 45 minutes ago
Oops, breaking out my own red pen (as my English teacher mom would say)—voluntary, that is!
Posted by publius - 5 months, 4 weeks, 2 days, 8 hours, 59 minutes ago
Greenhouse and the NYT were made for each other. She loves dishing out the left-wing pabulum that the collectivist set swallows hook, line and sinker. I had a massive case of schadenfreude upon hearing about the NYT layoffs, I mean buyouts. I supposed Greenhouse will open an abortion clinic after her retirement.