By: E&P Staff The New York Times began last week allowing user comments on select articles and editorials. Despite the forum to express an opinion, the newspaper insists that the comments sections will not be a free-for-all, according to EditorsWeblog.org.
The staff will monitor all comments, New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt said in a statement. Also, at a time when newspapers are cutting back on staff, The Times is hiring four part-time staffers to screen all reader submissions before posting them.
According to Jonathan Landman, the deputy managing editor, the New York Times' assets are both the material it produces and the quality of its readers. Bringing the two together could create "news and information of greater power, reach and quality than even a great newsroom can produce on its own."
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