In a recent New York Times memo sent to the Poynter Institute Times executive editor Bill Keller announced plans to integrate the Times and partner publication, International Herald Tribune in their print and online operations.

Keller hopes to initiate a “closer alignment of interests and a greater sharing of journalistic resources” between the two papers while maintaining each papers’ unique interests and voices.

A committee of editors from both New York and IHT’s Paris offices will navigate efforts to create what Keller calls an “organic, global, 24-hour news operation.” Marty Gottlieb, previous Times weekend editor, will head the collaboration—working with editors from both offices to ensure the seamless integration of the two papers’ reporting and editing strategies.

One of integration’s first efforts is, “to create a Continuous News outpost in Paris, to collaborate with the correspondents of both papers in serving up first-class journalism for the Times and Trib websites and for the print editions IHT,” Keller said.

Source: poynter.org through I Want Media