US: Talk to the NY Times’ editors
Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on November 27, 2007 at 3:47 PM
An excellent initiative by The New York Times: between Nov. 26 through Nov. 30, web editor Fiona Spruill will be answering reader questions on the paper’s website, as part of its ongoing ‘Talk to the Newsroom’ column.
Spruill heads the Times’ online newsroom, which consists of 60 producers and editors who publish the site 24 hours a day.
In today’s session, she answered questions about the online articles’ timestamps (updated as a story is updated, not representative of when it was first posted), as well as the need for ‘Print’ buttons on the site’s blog pages.
A number of editors have already answered questions in The Times’ ‘Talk to the Newsroom’ column, here.
This type of feature and interaction with readers is very important for editors, both to engage their readership in new ways and to hear about editorial issues directly from their readers.
This type of online ‘chat’ may be harder to establish for smaller newsrooms with less spare time, but it seems it can only be beneficial to all. It costs little and can serve as an efficient problem-resolution brainstorm.
Source: New York Times
In today’s session, she answered questions about the online articles’ timestamps (updated as a story is updated, not representative of when it was first posted), as well as the need for ‘Print’ buttons on the site’s blog pages.
A number of editors have already answered questions in The Times’ ‘Talk to the Newsroom’ column, here.
This type of feature and interaction with readers is very important for editors, both to engage their readership in new ways and to hear about editorial issues directly from their readers.
This type of online ‘chat’ may be harder to establish for smaller newsrooms with less spare time, but it seems it can only be beneficial to all. It costs little and can serve as an efficient problem-resolution brainstorm.
Source: New York Times
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This is a great idea, but I hope that as newspapers would treat it more seriously then the New York Times is. As I wrote on my blog today, the questions have been superficial and the overall impact has been far from impressive.