The Times To Launch Local Blogging Initiative
Look out, local bloggers, the Gray Lady is moving in on your turf. Starting mid-day on Monday, The New York Times will be rolling out a neighborhood blog initiative. Our home soil of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill will be one of the two pilot sites (the other site will cover Millburn, Maplewood and South…
Look out, local bloggers, the Gray Lady is moving in on your turf. Starting mid-day on Monday, The New York Times will be rolling out a neighborhood blog initiative. Our home soil of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill will be one of the two pilot sites (the other site will cover Millburn, Maplewood and South Orange in New Jersey). According to an email that was forwarded to us, the subject matter will include “cultural events, bar and restaurant openings, real estate, arts, fashion, health, social concerns and anything else that goes on in the ‘SoHo of Brooklyn.'” Each site will be helmed by a writer/editor from the paper, a Times official told us, but will draw upon contributors from the neighborhood as well as some free labor from the CUNY journalism program. Readers will be able to post everything from short films to wedding announcements, and a map-based real estate listings section will tie back to the Times’ main real estate site. Wonder if they’ll have a House of the Day post as well? The game is on!
I’m sure I’ll fall asleep reading their blog as I do the newspaper.
nothing to see here. except for free journalism costs.
they are onto you bloggers and your bleeding-edge cost structures(no payroll, no physical product).
really though. anyone here think it matters? they stll have the albatross of a print edition.
they are FOLLOWING, not LEADING.
its like watching one of those nature videos where the big cat takes down the bigger animal over a torturous several hour gruesome video.
but a cheer to the times. they finally drank the koolaid of blogging and are (it seems to me) getting ready to abandon the comprehensive journalism ship.
and the snark shall rule them all!
Don’t fret. You get it right while they…well they don’t have a clue.
Besides, we’re loyal.
Now if the people who did the Sun did this, I would be excited.
While it’s nice to have something else to read online that relates more or less to where I live, in my experience the Times lately doesn’t have the balls to be really edgy and interesting.
Another attempt by the Times to stay relevant, in the face of their implosion.
Mr. B, you don’t have anything to worry about.
Competition will reveal your worthiness, Mr. Brownstoner.
“The game is on!”
So now it’s Team Bull and Team Bear vs. Team Grey?
We aren’t going anywhere, Mr. B.
If its done by the NY Times the formatting may be right but the facts won’t be, this organization has a record of printing lies. Kick ther butts Brownstoner.