The Black Table's Will Leitch comments on a recent Page Six item about NYT A&L editor Jodi Kantor in which an anonymous Times employee complained that Kantor was hiring web journalists for freelance pieces, citing Sarah Hepola of theMorningNews.org as an example (despite the fact that Hepola also has several years of experience writing for the Austin Chronicle) as well as Kantor's prior experience at Slate: "Amazingly, Web journalism is still seen by many as reckless, a couple of geeks in their parents' basement with a modem and a bunch of free time. This preposterous perception could be classified as quaint or outdated if it had ever been true in the first place. And let's face it: What publication has a wider credibility gap these days: Slate, or the Times? Think hard about your answer." [Disclosure: Kantor's my editor at the Times and I'm also one of those obnoxious web people she hired.]
The Old Gray Lady is eating its young [TheBlackTable]