Arthur Schwartz was the restaurant critic and executive food editor of the New York Daily News for 18 years. Perhaps what he’s best known for is as a chameleon—he’s successfully worked in radio, print media, cookbook publishing, TV, and teaching.

In a recent phone call, today’s guest, Tim Johnson, used the phrase “bio-productive gardens,” and it stopped me. What does he mean by that, I thought? And then he explained:  There are ways to manage our landscapes, he said, so... Read More ›

The Media Beat was first commissioned in 2004 by Tribune Newspapers from Journalist and Media Critic David Tereshchuk. It ran as a weekly feature in the Tribune’s New York City Daily, ‘AM New York’ until Tereshchuk took the column online in 2006.... Read More ›