NYT Eliminating Public Editor Position

[lcjjdnh]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/business/media/new-york-times-buyouts.html?_r=0

 

[Alma]

And other editor positions too.

More content creators - reporters

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I'm sure they're trying to replace higher-priced veterans with younger and cheaper workers, but why don't they see if anyone wants to go from the copy desk to a reporting job?

 

[ringer]

I love how The NYT already had to run a correction on its story about laying off editors.
Doesn't bode well.

 

[britwrit]

They came for the copy editors and I said nothing because we finally filled the position of Senegal bureau chief.

 

[cranberry]

I'm sure they're trying to replace higher-priced veterans with younger and cheaper workers, but why don't they see if anyone wants to go from the copy desk to a reporting job?

Because the idea is to cut people with TNG-covered jobs, not to move them.

 

[cisforkoke]

The NYT will continue to staff a pubic editor position.

 

[wicked]

Because he idea is to cut people with TNG-covered jobs, not to move them.

Seeing it happen at more and more places, too. The Times is just jumping on the bandwagon.

 

[jimluttrell1963]

While they certainly have been trying to trim the ranks of the guild for a while, reporters are covered by the TNG.

 

[Doc Holliday]

The New York Times is full of shipty and biased reporting ...

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