David Carr, the New York Times media columnist who died earlier this year, left a legacy of excellent media reporting and mentoring younger journalists. Now the Times will honor that legacy with the David Carr Fellow, the newspaper announced Monday.
The David Carr Fellow, the Times said, will “spend two years in Times newsroom covering the intersection of technology, media and culture.” It is an opportunity, the Times added, “for a journalist early in his or her career to build upon Mr. Carr’s commitment to holding power accountable and telling engaging, deeply reported stories.”
Carr’s “Media Equation” column in the Times was considered a must-read even among the most seasoned media mavens. In addition to writing deeply reported stories about the growing nexus of media and technology, Carr also brought a unique perspective to writing about Hollywood and politics.
Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the Times, said, the paper will be looking for candidates who share his interests, and his openness to new ways of telling stories, “and also people who maybe have an unusual background. David Carr was a recovering drug addict who came to us from the alternative news media world. That’s very unusual for the New York Times.”
Carr wrote about his struggled with addiction in his best-selling memoir, “The Night of the Gun.”
Carr died, at 58, after collapsing in the newsroom in February. The cause was later revealed to be complications arising from lung cancer, the Times said. Two months later, he was cited as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
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