"Times on the Trail": first New York Times blog
The New York Times launched its first Weblog today. "Times on the Trail" is a new "continuously updated report from the campaign trail reported and edited by the Washington bureau of The Times and produced by NYTimes.com."
A New York Times editor's note on the first Political Points post says, "This is the first edition of a new web-exclusive feature by Carl Hulse and other Times reporters that will be added to and updated throughout the day. "
"On the Trail" includes links in the right column, with "a selective guide to today's campaign coverage on the Web".
The Times has already been experimenting with the format in "Kristoff Responds", a Webloggish forum in which Nicholas D. Kristof, Op-Ed columnist for The Times, answers reader e-mail and gives "the story behind the column.
Formerly, NYTimes.com editor-in-chief Len Apcar said that Weblogs on the Times' site would be part of the organization's coverage of the presidential campaign. Apcar added it could be "some kind of running journal that looks at the feel, the texture, the personalities, the tensions and some of the drama of the campaign, the smells and bells of a particular story. In the right hands it could be compelling reading."
Access to the "Times on the Trail" weblog.
