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NYT moderates reader comments

   January 18, 2008

The gannettblog reports that

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.

BTW: NYTimes.com is #1 newspaper website in web traffic

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