Jim Roberts, editor of digital news, and Jon Landman, deputy managing editor, explain the integration and its significance.

They explain that with the integration there is web producers next to the print news desk and the national and foreign desks are also in that same newsroom. They feel that is important because it is much easier to come together and to share ideas.

They explain that when a new idea emerges it is now very simply to assemble a group of people to talk about it. They felt that a good newsroom has this option of having a lot of ideas being discussed by a lot of people so that the really good ideas make it through.

The morning meetings at the Tines are also much easier now that all of the editors and producers are able to meet together in one place at the same time. When an idea is ready to be published now, it can be done so very quickly by being easily passed on to the web producers.

The integration has really given the Times a great wealth of information and different ways to tell stories all in the same newsroom.

The New York Times Monday today published a 16-page special advertising section focused on its own new high-rise building. This special section appeared the same day that the building formally opened.

Some particular features of the building are conducive to the new integrated newsroom. Nicolai Ouroussoff of the New York Times reports on the building saying, “internal staircases link the various newsroom floors to encourage interaction. The work cubicles are flanked by rows of glass-enclosed offices, many of which are unassigned so that they can be used for private phone conversations or spontaneous meetings. Informal groupings of tables and chairs are also scattered about, creating a variety of social spaces.”

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