‘He’s the Best, He’s the Best, He’s the Best’

Max Frankel

Former executive editor, The New York Times

“He had published that terrific little sheet called 7 Days. It was terrific. It had a great sense of both service and a feel for the city. And that was exactly the sensibility we wanted. We brought him in to help advise us on various projects, we got to know him, and we hired him.”

Lynn Hirschberg

Editor at large, W; former contributor, The New York Times Magazine

“One of the things people don’t say enough about him is what a great teacher he is. He would suggest something completely impossible, and I would say, ‘Sure, Adam, I will do that completely impossible thing you have in mind, because I want you to be happy.’ He has a gift for setting the bar very, very high and making you work over the level you thought you were capable of. He invests so much time in the process that you feel you have to live up to that investment.”

“I’m happy for my friend, but I’m very sad for journalism, and I’m very sad especially for magazines, because I feel like it’s very much the end of something. He’s the best, he’s the best, he’s the best.”

Olivia Nuzzi

Washington correspondent, New York

“More than anything else, what Adam’s taught me — and I’m not sure he knows he taught me this — is how simple it should be to tell a story. It should be simple even if the story seems complicated. A few months ago, I was reporting on some palace intrigue in the West Wing, and Trump pulled me into the Oval Office to try to dissuade me from writing about it. Over the course of 20 minutes, we were joined by the vice president, the secretary of state and the president’s chief of staff. I was agonizing about how to explain in writing what had happened; I didn’t know where to even start. But Adam had the obvious answer: You just start where the story starts, and you tell it honestly, just as it happened and as you experienced it. Once I understood that, saw what he meant, it was easy.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/business/media/adam-moss-new-york-magazine-tributes.html?partner=rss&emc=rss