no-need-for-a-newspaper

abalk · 09/14/07 09:34AM

Times deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman, in one of his weekly memos to the staff about "Innovation," lays this deepness on you (emphasis ours): "Times have changed. Our online storytelling skills have evolved to the point where you really can get the whole story without reading a newspaper article. It's a remarkably rich experience that goes well beyond using video or maps or pictures to tell a story—something we (and others) have done well many times. The innovation lies in putting them together in a way that tells the story with all the nuance, comprehensiveness, authority and depth that define The New York Times. (It's hard to imagine online storytelling at this level coming from a non-integrated newsroom. Neither 'newspaper people' nor 'web people' could have done it alone.)"