Ron Lieber
@ronlieber.bsky.social
I work for readers as the New York Times money scribe. Author of "The Price You Pay for College," teacher of a course about merit scholarships (meritaidcourse.com), Brooklyn now but forever Chicago. He/We/Abba. Gratitude and rage.
Thanks for this -- I'd be curious to hear more if you are able to drop me a note at lieber @ nytimes dot com?
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thanks for this -- I'd be curious to hear more if you are able to drop me a note at lieber @ nytimes dot com?
I get your take on the public editor though. I'd like to see it brought back. Not sure I'm in the majority internally on that.
August 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I get your take on the public editor though. I'd like to see it brought back. Not sure I'm in the majority internally on that.
I love good criticism, and context isn't an attack. (And this is a reply, not putting you on blast the way you just did to me.) I don't get your take tho. As someone who works there (& as a reader of competitors) that much home page play is a much bigger signal to readers than front page/dead tree.
August 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I love good criticism, and context isn't an attack. (And this is a reply, not putting you on blast the way you just did to me.) I don't get your take tho. As someone who works there (& as a reader of competitors) that much home page play is a much bigger signal to readers than front page/dead tree.
This story was already published when you posted -- and in a prominent place on the NYT home page -- and proceeded to get more readers than the number of print newspapers that get printed during the week. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
What, Exactly, Was That Cabinet Meeting?
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August 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This story was already published when you posted -- and in a prominent place on the NYT home page -- and proceeded to get more readers than the number of print newspapers that get printed during the week. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Forget not the charitable deduction for explosives here -- and the business tax deduction for meals taken on fishing boats.
July 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Forget not the charitable deduction for explosives here -- and the business tax deduction for meals taken on fishing boats.
We will all miss him, though I think/hope he'll keep educating us.
June 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We will all miss him, though I think/hope he'll keep educating us.
Thanks so much for this. The number of VPs of enrollment who read my book on who pays what and why for college and told me how much they learned was... interesting. www.harperacademic.com/book/9780062...
The Price You Pay for College - Ron Lieber
Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPRNew York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice pick“Masterly . . .represents an ext...
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May 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thanks so much for this. The number of VPs of enrollment who read my book on who pays what and why for college and told me how much they learned was... interesting. www.harperacademic.com/book/9780062...
They've followed the playbook pretty well it seems!
May 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
They've followed the playbook pretty well it seems!