(2005-08-25) Ny Press Editorial Change

NyPress has a new editorial team. Our editorial team consists of Harry Siegel (son of Fred Siegel), our editor-in-chief, and Jonathan Leaf, senior editor. Tim Marchman will be joining the paper in October as managing editor. Among us we have a broad range of experience in publishing. We've filed on local and national politics, music, theater, fiction and sports for publications ranging from the Weekly Standard and the New York Post to The New Yorker and The New Republic; had plays produced and written novels; edited for the New York Sun and for our own Web site, New Partisan Com.

• they close with: Our final principle is that it is not enough merely to give space to interesting ideas and good writing. A newspaper must serve an ideal of justice. We believe that everyone has a right to affordable housing in a clean, decent neighborhood, the right to have their children educated by competent, dedicated teachers in safe schools, the right to quality healthcare, and the right and obligation to hold a useful job, and that good policy is needed to extend these rights to all New Yorkers. We believe that government is not fully democratic when it is not transparent and open, and that a government that is not fully democratic is in important ways not legitimate. These beliefs will guide what we run and what we write. Goodness those are a lot of rights for NYC to provide.

• their New Partisan Com description sounds vaguely Libertarian.

Matt Taibbi is leaving.

Some history of recent NyPress management.