NYT Cuts Loose One of its Last Remaining Ties to Reality

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PoliZette
by Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 01 Jun 2017 at 6:21 AM


Newspaper caves to financial pressure, left-wing rage and eliminates public editor position.


The New York Times decided to eliminate the newspaper’s public editor position because the outlet believes it has “outgrown” the need of internal oversight, publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. informed employees in a company memo Wednesday.


Liz Spayd, the publication’s sixth and final public editor, is set to depart Friday from The Times when her position expires, the Huffington Post first reported Wednesday. With Spayd’s departure and the elimination of the role entirely, The Times will lose the accountability the independent, internal watchdog was meant to provide.


“It means the Times is caving in to lefty critics who have bashed Spayd for some time. She actually recognized the Times has serious issues with its own biases.”


“The responsibility of the public editor ― to serve as the reader’s representative ― has outgrown that one office,” Sulzberger wrote in his memo.


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[truth_seeker]

Be like, who the eff cares at this point?

Mainstream media are gone over the edge, in terms of unbiased reporting and editorial content.

[Wingnut]

Sulzberger said subscriptions are up dramatically and we don't need editorial content.   

We'll all ride high in the saddle my friends.

[Frank Cannon]

Sulzberger said subscriptions are up dramatically and we don't need editorial content.   

We'll all ride high in the saddle my friends.

Let's be honest Pinch. Subscriptions do not equal money in your business. Your ad revenues are in the toilet and you had to can this woman because you can't afford her. Your paper is still hemorrhaging money.

[Bigun]

“outgrown” the need of internal oversight

Translation: We want to be free to lie at will!

[Wingnut]

Let's be honest Pinch. Subscriptions do not equal money in your business. Your ad revenues are in the toilet and you had to can this woman because you can't afford her. Your paper is still hemorrhaging money.

You are correct.  Check this out.

The New York Times offered buyouts to its newsroom employees on Wednesday, aiming to reduce layers of editing and requiring more of the editors who remain.

In a memo to the newsroom, Dean Baquet, the executive editor, and Joseph Kahn, the managing editor, said the current system of copy editors and “backfielders” who assign and shape articles would be replaced with a single group of editors who would be responsible for all aspects of an article. Another editor would be “looking over their shoulders before publication.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/business/media/new-york-times-buyouts.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-5&action=click&contentCollection=Media&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

[Frank Cannon]

You are correct.  Check this out.

The New York Times offered buyouts to its newsroom employees on Wednesday, aiming to reduce layers of editing and requiring more of the editors who remain.

In a memo to the newsroom, Dean Baquet, the executive editor, and Joseph Kahn, the managing editor, said the current system of copy editors and “backfielders” who assign and shape articles would be replaced with a single group of editors who would be responsible for all aspects of an article. Another editor would be “looking over their shoulders before publication.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/business/media/new-york-times-buyouts.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-5&action=click&contentCollection=Media&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

With the NY Slimes current revenue stream, they are going to have to fire everyone and rely on unpayed bloggers to self publish to make a profit.