Inside the Times’ Blog World

Which New York Times blogs are doing well and why? That’s a question some members of the masthead are asking as preparations are made to reduce the newsroom by 100 bodies in the coming weeks.

Here’s a peek inside some of the Times’ most popular blogs, as offered by the editors:

Wendell Jamieson, deputy metropolitan Read More

City Room Heath Ledger Post: 1.78 Million Page Views

The City Room’s post authored by Sewell Chan on the death of Heath Ledger has reached 1.78 million page views, a spokeswoman said. The Times can’t confirm whether it’s an all-time record for a nytimes.com blog post, but it’s probably awfully close. Editor Jonathan Landman wrote in an e-mail this morning: By the end of Read More

Sun to Rise Several Times Daily

The editors of The New York Sun have started posting stories on their Web site during the day instead of waiting to put them in the next morning’s paper.

A memo sent to staff yesterday by city editor David Lombino said reporters should expect to file early when they’re working on certain kinds of stories. Read More

The Times Machine

“Some day we’ll all be reading our papers electronically,” said Arthur Gelb, who started his career at The New York Times in 1944 and served as the paper’s managing editor from 1986 to 1990. “That’s just the way. Am I happy about it? No, because I lived my life with the wonderful past of the Read More