Posted on 06/29/2017 9:00:37 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Editors and reporters in the New York Times Co. newsroom can no longer keep quiet about their growing frustrations regarding the direction of the paper.
After a pair of letters sent to Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joseph Kahn by Times reporters and copy editors, the News Guild of New York said the New York Times editorial staff will leave the newsroom on Thursday as a demonstration of solidarity as management threatens jobs.
In the copy editors’ letter to Baquet and Kahn, they say they feel betrayed and disrespected in the newsroom, and ask that management reconsider staffing cuts that are expected as the paper plans to restructure.
“Cutting us down to 50 to 55 editors from more than 100, and expecting the same level of quality in the report, is dumbfoundingly unrealistic,” the letter reads. “You often speak about the importance of engaging readers, of valuing, investing and giving a voice to readers. Dean and Joe: We are your readers, and you have turned your backs on us.”
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
Try just reporting truth and accuracy and maybe business would be better.
NYT is not journalism, it’s creative writing.
I’m crying over this. Laughing that is!!
Thanks for that info. Did some research on Alvin. Very interesting. I now have some new reading material.
tpm
The NYT dealt its own blows to its credibility. The paper’s staff may not be in the straits that it’s in if it valued the truth higher than they value their prestige.
“Editors — and yes, that especially means copy editors — save reporters and the Times every day from countless errors, large and small,” (editors) say in the letter.
Considering how many “errors, large and small” actually wind up in print in the “Paper of Record” these days, editors must have to wear muck boots in the news room to wade through all the B.S. that winds up on the cutting room floor.
Maybe they can hire Wolf Man Jack...he runs a snappy oldies top 40 radio show every evening from beyond the grave.
What quality?
Trump has had a similar effect on libs and on those lib strongholds. So much winning!
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