Byron Calame

Byron Calame (born April 14, 1939 in Appleton City, Missouri) was the second public editor of the New York Times. He succeeded Daniel Okrent in this ombudsman-like position in 2005, and was followed by Clark Hoyt. He is a former bureau chief and editor of the Wall Street Journal.Byron Calame earned a degree in journalism at the University of Missouri and was a member of the Zeta Phi chapter of Beta Theta Pi.Calame's columns have focused on the process by which stories are produced at the Times and have generally been restrained in criticizing the newspaper and its reporters. One exception was his severe criticism of Judith Miller after her controversial decision to go to jail rather than reveal sources of information. His stance on Miller was hotly contested by Miller and her supporters, who contended that Calame was acting more like a management representative than an independent thinker.