By: E&P Staff In a note to "our readers on" A2 and with a few design changes throughout the paper, The New York Times took steps to address the age-old issues of clarity and separation of straight reporting from review, analysis and commentary.
A
piece in this week's New York Observer summarizes the tyopgraphical changes, in which non-news stories, scattered throughout the Times, now gets a "rag right" treatment. Regular reviewers' names also get put in a boxed byline in the Arts section, and the Times is doing away with some of its titles for certain irregular news columns.
Its letter to readers opens, "Starting today, The Times is introducing several design changes in its daily news papges to underscore the distinctions between straightforward news coverage and other journalistic forms that provide additional perspective on events." It also notes that, "All articles, columns, editorials and contributionsin the newspaper are subject to the same requirements of factual accuracy."
The Times follow this with a "Readers Guide" to various types of material in both its news and opinion pages. It can be found
here.
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