MAGAZINE
October 9, 2005
Congratulations on the eclectic, splendid Sept. 11 issue. Though I have been a subscriber for more than 20 years, I was always enchanted with the New York Times Magazine. For a long time I've been frustrated by the frothy, usually L.A.-obsessed content of your magazine, and I've been meaning to write to you. But now I can write with praise. The Sept. 11 cover story on South Africa ("After the Fire," by Scott Kraft) is an in-depth article with profound and fascinating significance.
MAGAZINE
September 11, 2005 | Scott Kraft, Scott Kraft is the national editor of The Times and was the paper's South Africa bureau chief between 1988 and 1993.
I expected to find a family in ruins. My small car crunched up the gravel road past acres of fruit trees to Hennie and Evelynne Durr's hilltop farm home, an hour outside of Cape Town. During my last visit, in 1989, the Durrs had been gripped by a conflict that echoed the battles of American families during Vietnam and the Civil Rights era.
NEWS
October 30, 1997
Scott Kraft, a veteran reporter and deputy foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times, has been named national editor of the paper, Editor Michael Parks announced Wednesday. Kraft will succeed Norman C. "Mike" Miller, who has directed The Times' national coverage since 1983. Miller helped to lead many changes in that coverage, including the expansion of the paper's Washington bureau, widely regarded as among the most influential in the nation. He will retire Friday.
OPINION
May 29, 1994 | SCOTT KRAFT, Scott Kraft, The Times bureau chief in Paris, interviewed Balladur in his office
When Jacques Chirac led the Gaullist conservatives to an overwhelming victory in national elections last year, he had his eye on a bigger prize--the presidency. Unfortunately, the sitting president, Francois Mitterrand, planned to keep the job until his term expired in 1995. So the conservatives devised a cunning, though politically risky strategy.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 20, 1993
Your editorial "A Line Never to Be Crossed" (April 14) with regard to the Anti-Defamation League was, for the most part, right on target. As you correctly noted, "it is no surprise that the ADL has kept close tabs on individuals and groups of all stripes that trade in hate or violence. . . ." Indeed, for decades reports of the Anti-Defamation League have served as background material for The Times as well as countless other journalists, legislators and the public. Where your editorial goes astray is imputing to the Anti-Defamation League the collecting of information on groups such as the NAACP, television station KQED, Times correspondent Scott Kraft, et al. In the frenzy to report allegations and information from an affidavit made public by the San Francisco district attorney's office, few reporters have bothered to distinguish between material from the files of the Anti-Defamation League and that taken from the homes of Roy Bullock and Tom Gerard.
NEWS
April 9, 1993 | RICHARD C. PADDOCK, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Police on Thursday served search warrants on the Anti-Defamation League here and in Los Angeles, seizing evidence of a nationwide intelligence network accused of keeping files on more than 950 political groups, newspapers and labor unions and as many as 12,000 people.