The Atlantic Opens Up Editing Room to Public

The online publishing arm of The Atlantic opened its editing room to the public in an ongoing experiment Wednesday.

Readers are invited to pitch stories and give feedback on existing articles, as well as observe the pitching and editing process - something that usually takes place in chatroom client Campfire - between full-time staff. Instead of Campfire, The Atlantic Wire has moved operations to an open comments thread.

"As with many web news operations, The Atlantic Wire is mostly edited via terse messages in a group chat room. Editors and writers spend the day logged onto Campfire pitching story ideas, exchanging links and keeping everyone up to date on the news of the day. So we had a thought: Why not move that out into the open and let anyone who wants to take part?" says editor Gabriel Snyder, who adds that the experiment was designed to increase transparency about the editorial process.

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