Mike Hale Retires From New York Times After 17 Years as TV Critic
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 2
Mike Hale Retires From New York Times After 17 Years as TV Critic
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 2
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Mike Hale retired from The New York Times at the end of last week, closing a 17-year run as one of the paper’s television critics.
Hale joined the Times in 1995 as a Sports copy editor, later served as a TV editor and became a critic in 2009.
Several thousand reviews later, he leaves a reputation for sharp, unsparing judgments shaped through eras from "The Sopranos" and "Breaking Bad" to streaming hits like "Stranger Things."
In a Times Insider interview, Hale said television keeps changing in content, message and emotion, framing his departure as the medium enters yet another new phase.