NY Times closes its environment desk, reassigns 9 person staff

1/11/13, "NYT closes its environment desk, reassigns journalists" Poynter.org, Andrew Beaujon

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"The nine journalists on The New York Times’ environment desk learned Wednesday they will be reassigned, Katherine Bagley reports. “No decision has been made about the fate of the Green Blog, which is edited from the environment desk,” Bagley writes. Managing Editor for news operations Dean Baquet told Bagley the move was “wasn’t a decision we made lightly.” The “structural matter” was not related to budget, he said....

The Daily Climate’s Douglas Fischer reported Jan. 2 that in 2012 the Times “published the most stories on climate change and had the biggest increase in coverage among the five largest U.S. daily papers”;"...

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Michael Mann among twitter responses to this event. via Tom Nelson





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