Patrick Healy

Assistant Managing Editor, New York Times • [email protected]

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

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[Michael Barbaro @mikiebarb]

A truly stunning run of NYT scoops, involving a huge cast from our Biz and White House teams, led to Jensen Huang's resignation.
You can listen to one of those reporters @trippmickle on today's Daily:
https://t.co/PyFpF4XWjn

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

When does the New York Times give credit to other news outlets for their reporting -- and why don't we in some cases? I look at recent decisions and talk to our executive editor Joe Kahn about it in our latest Backstory newsletter. (Sign up!) https://t.co/WdvIco1JlC

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

Some readers have had criticisms and questions about our Alaska Senate race investigation into the Democrats trying to find other Dan Sullivans to run against Sen. Dan Sullivan. I spoke with @Amy_Siskind about her critique of the story. Here's a clip: https://t.co/YSklg5lIG1

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

NYT readers sometimes ask me, why do you guys bother calling up Trump, he gets enough attention already and doesn't say much? I asked my colleagues @tylerpager & @EricaLG about that after their election night call, for our latest Backstory newsletter. https://t.co/Zuqs24BaiP

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

I did an AMA on the midterms with @nytimes readers. We talked about key race results to watch tonight for signs of overall victory. Readers also pressed me on our Alaska ballot-stacking investigation and Beatrice Keul’s allegations against President Trump. https://t.co/egJzKiuYZX

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

Final @nytimes Senate battleground polls are out. https://t.co/Ti4Cn1yP03

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

Great work has been done by @WSJ @washingtonpost @propublica @Reuters & others too. A free press reports facts about those in power no matter who or which party it is. If this sounds defensive, so be it: I'm happy to defend investigative reporting by my colleagues any day.

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

Some Democrats are reacting to our Alaska Senate race investigation with "whataboutism" arguments and saying, "now investigate Trump." It's striking to see because a lot of what people know about Trump's actions came from Times investigative reporting. Here are some examples.

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

The long, deep ties between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: https://t.co/z450bPjyKO

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

Great reporting by @peterbakernyt and @dylfreed. “Broadly speaking, the review concluded, Mr. Trump’s public communication is more vulgar, more uninhibited and less coherent than it was a decade ago.” https://t.co/Buhm0Ik51M via @NYTimes

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

Why did The New York Times publish its Alaska Senate race investigation so close to Election Day? How did @nytimes editors weigh a source’s retraction request? What did the reporting reveal? I spoke with @Kellen_Browning & @AmyEGardner about all of it. https://t.co/Kq1rN27TJc

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

I spoke with Amy Chozick about the disputed Holmes quote for a new newsletter where we explore @nytimes journalism. It’s called The Backstory. We also talk with critics of our work and answer reader questions. You can sign up for The Backstory here: https://t.co/cTVxZlftLh

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The New York Times journalist Amy Chozick is pushing back after Elizabeth Holmes claimed in Nathan Fielder’s “You Can See Everything” that the paper misquoted her in its 2023 profile.

Holmes disputed the quote, “They’re not playing me. They’re playing a character I created,” seemingly referencing Amanda Seyfried and performers who have portrayed her on screen.

“Holmes spoke openly, over several days, about the persona she created at Theranos,” Chozick said. “This was the first interview she had given since the blood-testing company imploded, and she looked and sounded like a completely different person from the public figure people remembered. How and why she’d created that persona was a topic that we returned to repeatedly.”

https://t.co/51wkEIfqxL

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[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

In today's @nytimes Backstory newsletter, I talk to Amy Chozick about the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary and Holmes's dispute over a quote from Chozick's NYT profile of her. The movie brings up the quote several times as it assesses Holmes's veracity. https://t.co/EbRc6s8Cv4

[Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt]

@NYTmag And in our "Sound Off" segment, I talk with @JoshMBlackman about his research on how The Times labels professors, organizations and others as "liberal" and "conservative." He says we do it inconsistently, and he has a point.