New York Times Shuts Down City Room Blog, to Surprising Chorus of Grief

The tributes poured in yesterday afternoon when Andy Newman, editor of The New York Times' City Room blog — "a news blog of live reporting, features and reader conversations about New York City" — announced that his 2:26 p.m. post would the last entry.

Several journalists, on Twitter, described it as the end of an era. Rachel King, a senior editor for CBS Interactive, asked: "Why am I so devastated? No, really, I am."