During Shatzkin's time at The New York Times Company he served as vice president. Shatzkin's works and books include:
- *Television Today: Where, Which Direction?*
- *For Small Change: Life In Television and Other Low Venues* (1992)
- *Turned-On TV: How To Succeed Despite The Media Mess That Makes Us All More Ignorant, Selfish, Stupid and Narcissistic Every Day (Or Nearly)* (2005)
- *The Times, They Be A’Changin: News of Today and Beyond: An Oral History from Leading Journalists & Executives at the New York Times* (2014)