Former NY Times Columnist Rips Into the Grey Lady, Says He Left ‘Without Sorrow’

Sean James Sep 1st, 2025, 3:47 pm

Former columnist Charles Blow said he ditched the paper “without sorrow” in February after his confidence as a writer had been “injured” during his last few years at The Grey Lady.

Blow shared those thoughts in his first post on his new Substack blog on Monday. He wrote:

My last years at the paper weren’t my most pleasant. My job went from being one I would say, earnestly, I would do for free, to one I struggled to justify doing for pay. The zombie thing that came to be published under my name had a dwindling trace of my breath in it. It was no longer fully my voice.

Blow did not go into detail about what happened behind-the-scenes at that spoiled his final years t

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