NY1 VIDEO: On the final episode of The New York Times Close Up, hosted by Sam Roberts:

  • Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, joins the show.
  • We talk to New York Times National Correspondent John Eligon, who covers race for the paper and is a contributor to the Online Race/related newsletter.
  • Times columnists past and present — Joyce Purnick, Clyde Haberman, Eleanor Randolph, and Jim Dwyer — join us for the New York Times Reporters Roundtable.
  • A preview of a new film, "Obit," which introduces you to the very live people who write the obituaries for the New York Times.