New York Times integrates print and online journalism

THE NEW YORK TIMES is planning on integrating its traditional print newsroom with its new-fangled online e-internet e-newsroom, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Members of staff from the old and the new schools will begin collaborating and cooperating, and other words that begin with co, on news and coverage more regularly than they are doing now, editor Bill Keller told his employees in a memorandum.

The print and online newsrooms, currently in seperate building in Manhattan, will be put under the same roof when the new 52-story headquarters is opened in 2007.

Print employees will be expected to take care of the Internet hacks, for example, Jonathan Landman has been an assistant managing editor at the paper but will now be assuming the role of deputy managing editor for digital journalism.

Of course, the print hacks and hackettes will no doubt be a little angry that they're having to share a building with fake internet pseudo-journalists. µ