Talk:Bill Keller

NPOV
Lots of good content, but I think this might need a little work to make the SWIFT controversy content NPOV. 124.157.144.83 14:58, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Ditto - obviously alot of well researched material, but I'm concerned that the article gives only one pespective to the SWIFT controversey (the administration's), and that the SWIFT matter is by and large the substance of the article. In particular, the Normandy analogy should be sourced to a particular person. That "the right wing" or believe as much is, I think, a little reductive. -Jahenderson 06:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

It seems this could still use review for tone and emphasis. I just make occasional edits and am not familiar with Wikipedia policies on this or how it works when different people post differently, but the Lisa Bonchek Adams column is getting focus way beyond what it deserves. Is it more notable than his entire time at the Marshall Project?Jreiss17 (talk) 12:56, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Mandela
We do not mention this juvenile biography:
 * Bill Keller, Tree shaker: the story of Nelson Mandela (Boston: Kingfisher, 2008) ISBN 0753459922 —128pp, illustrated (LC Catalog)

Is the Library of Congress is wrong to equate the two Bill Kellers, author of this book and NYT journalist (Bill Keller at LC Authorities).

The NYT columnist biography notes that that Keller is married to Emma Gilbey, a writer and the author of a biography of Winnie Mandela (KELLER-BIO at NYT).

--P64 (talk) 19:18, 1 November 2013 (UTC)


 * From a School Library Journal review of the book, quoted by Amazon.com
 * "Keller draws on his years of experience as the Johannesburg bureau chief for the New York Times in this compact profile of South Africa's leading political figure." --SLJ
 * Here he talks about the book himself
 * Nelson Mandela: 'Tree Shaker', ABC News 2008-05-29 (audio-video, 3:02)
 * --P64 (talk) 20:05, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * All that is now covered in the biography, largely in new section 3 (since it isn't part of his NYT career) Nelson Mandela (in retrospect I prefer South Africa).

That NYT columnist biography does not mention his Executive Editor position, which we date from 2003. So I wonder whether the three children it names are those of Bill and Emma--we don't say so, nor does NYT--or of one of them in a previous marriage. They were married only in 1999 and he had been married previously, according to their NYT wedding coverage. --P64 (talk) 16:01, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Keller's decision not to revoke Walter Durante's Pulitzer Prize
Walter Durante noted schill for Stalin and the Holdmor (the starvation of 10 million Ukrainians)still holds onto his Pulitzer Prize in spite of years of revelations of his cooperation with Stalin and his deliberate lies about Gareth Jones' factual reporting of the event. 136.24.200.20 (talk) 22:41, 23 September 2023 (UTC)