Keller Steps Up

July 18, 2003

Two years after being conspicuously passed over for the top job at the New York Times, Bill Keller was named Executive Editor of the paper this week. He replaces Howell Raines, who resigned in disgrace last month in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, but who maintains that he was just trying to do what was best for the paper. Brooke speaks with Keller about the job that lies ahead.


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