New journalism at New York Times

[it: un articolo interessante sulla redazione online del Times]

A look inside the digital newsroom of the New York Times: The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady by Emily Nussbaum. A bit of history and great quotations:

• “Me, I don’t read the paper anymore. I read the website. I read the mobile site. When I read the print paper, I get frustrated—I find I have to sit by the computer and Google things.”, Nick Bilton
• “Print is just a device. The New York Times is not just a newspaper, it’s a news organization.”
• “This isn’t a storm! This isn’t something that’s going to pass! It’s the ice age. People aren’t going to suddenly open their eyes and we’re back in print.”
• By exposing their work process online, journalists won’t lose their validity, in Dance’s view. Instead, they’ll reestablish themselves as trustworthy curators of data—custodians of the true and the quantitative
• What is a front page, after all, other than an aggregator? Why does an article read the way it does—lede, nut graf, quotes? If that pyramid structure was designed for the physical facts of print production, what new structures will match the new technologies?
• There are skills the Times geeks admire that could enlarge the capacities of journalists: a respect for databases, a sweeping fascination with the quantitative. (….) Also, a willingness to risk exposure, as well as a curiosity about visual tools that do not always come naturally to people who identify as writers.