The New York Times now has 11 staffers reading and approving online reader comments before they're published, MediaShift says. Jonathan Landman, the NYT's deputy managing editor for digital journalism, says the paper started out with four part-timers doing that work. And he expects to hire more people and to train others as comments expand to other stories.USA Today is cited as a paper that spotlights comments. Its most-commented story as I write this post is about the next round of presidential primaries. The story has drawn nearly 2,000 comments, including this trenchant observation from a reader identified only as scrappyd: "You cant vote intelligently if you cant seperate fact from b@llsh@t."
Yes, indeed! Comments like that certainly advance my understanding of this crucial election. How 'bout you?
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