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I have always greatly enjoyed Margaret Sulivan's public editor's blog posts. She has been forthright and direct in her critcism of anonymous quotes and other areas where governments may attempt to direct the conversation. Though in her recent post on the Israeli military censor she stopped short of declaring that the Times Israeli reporters will not follow the censor. She has mentioned that the Times can always have the information published by their U.S. office. How do you ensure the information is passed along, and wouldn't sending it to foreign media to be published also violate the censor?

I really enjoy the new opTalk section, particularly how you highlight both small and large media institutions. How does the Editorial board choose which newspapers to look through, and how do you then choose which articles to highlight? Do you have any plans to increase the amount of literary work in this section?

Thank you so much for doing the ama!