The New York Times Gets Rid of Bits as a Standalone Blog

The New York Times is shuttering its tech blog, Bits, as a separate destination.

The New York Times did a big rethink of its blogs in 2014, shutting down almost half of them. “There’s little chance that our marquee blogs, ones like DealBook, Well, Bits, will be going anywhere anytime soon,” then-assistant managing editor Ian Fisher (he’s now head of the Times’ investigations department) told Poynter at the time.

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