Bill Keller talks about the NYT online
Jon Friedman at Marketwatch has posted some thoughts about a discussion he had with Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, in which the newspaper executive talked about the NYT’s increasing use of video — including an upcoming move into “user-generated” video — as well as the paper’s ongoing attempts to unify its digital and paper newsrooms.
Keller tells Friedman that he’s a newspaper guy at heart but lately he has become “platform-agnostic.” The piece talks about the Art Buchwald obituary — which came complete with a video clip of Buchwald saying “Hi, my name is Art Buchwald, and I just died” — as well as new blogs from David Carr and others.
And Keller says that as far as the newsroom goes, “we’re figuring out the lines of authority” and trying to avoid “competing fiefdoms.” The Times is trying to create an “integrated desk” responsible for both digital and paper news generation and production.
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