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New York Times Insider To Provide Insight On 'The Changing Times'

Glenn Kramon is a graduate of Scarsdale High School.

An editor for the , who is also a Scarsdale High School graduate, is set to talk about the evolution of the newspaper as part of the Sunday Speaker Series.

Glenn Kramon, assistant managing editor for The New York Times since 2006, has been invited to speak on Sunday, April 15 at the , 37 Drake Road, at 3 p.m.

Kramon oversees longterm reporting efforts in the newsroom. His talk, “The Changing Times,” is expected to give insight on how the newspaper is changing and not changing with the times

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Kramon’s projects include the dangers of distracted driving; the safety and environmental hazards of sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks; the overlooked problem of concussions among young athletes; cheating on taxes, and the loopholes and inequities in the tax code; questionable medical treatments; whether or not the United States is moving toward a more secure energy future; routine abuse of clean-water laws; the financial exploitation of American soldiers by insurers, investment companies and lenders; the exploitation of the elderly by a variety of businesses; environmental devastation in China; and the proliferation of tax and regulatory breaks afforded religious organizations.     

Reporters whom Kramon has supervised and edited have won eight Pulitzer Prizes, and have been finalists for the Pulitzer 22 times.  They have also earned a number of other honors including 10 George Polk awards for courageous journalism, seven Gerald Loeb awards for distinguished business journalism, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Grantham Prize for environmental reporting.  In June 2003, Kramon became the first recipient of the Gerald Loeb/Lawrence Minard award for outstanding work as an editor.

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Kramon is a graduate of and received a B.A. degree with honors from Stanford University in 1975.  Following his remarks, Kramon is scheduled to answer questions from the audience. 

The Sunday Speaker Series programs are free and open to the public, underwritten in part by a grant from the Irving J. Sloan Education Fund, made possible by the Liz Claiborne-Arthur Ortenberg Foundation.


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