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The heat is on as the New York Times closes its environment desk
2013-01-15 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Late last week, the New York Times made news when it broke that the paper has shuttered its environment desk. The change isn't supposed to result in any layoffs, and the managing editor for news operations, Dean Baquet, told the news site Inside Climate that it "is purely a structural matter" they haven't lost interest in covering environmental issues. The reporters will just be doing it from other formal desks. The change is still disheartening, to put it mildly. Compelling, well-reported...
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With NYTimes environmental desk gone, Green Blog becomes essential
2013-01-13 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: A few days ago we woke up to the news that the New York Times is eliminating their environment desk. Predictably, the immediate reaction of many was "oh, noooo!". After all, whenever we hear such news, about a science or health or environmental desk being eliminated at a media organization, this means the reporters and editors of that beat have been fired. But New York Times did not fire anyone. Instead, they will disperse the environmental reporters around the building. Instead of all of...
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Times Closes Environment Desk on Same Day 'Extreme Weather' Hits Front Page
2013-01-11 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic Wire: Talk about mixed signals. On the very morning The New York Times signaled its plans to reassign its nine environment desk journalists to other sections, the paper ran a chilling photo of "extreme weather" above the fold on A1. No one got fired, but Times managing editor Dean Baquet tells InsideClimate New's Katherine Bagley that the dedicated environment desk will fold over the next few weeks. "We have not lost any desire for environmental coverage," Baquet assures, saying that environment stories...
New York Times Dismantles Its Environment Desk
2013-01-11 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate News: The New York Times will close its environment desk in the next few weeks and assign its seven reporters and two editors to other departments. The positions of environment editor and deputy environment editor are being eliminated. No decision has been made about the fate of the Green Blog, which is edited from the environment desk. "It wasn't a decision we made lightly," said Dean Baquet, the paper's managing editor for news operations. "To both me and Jill [Abramson, executive editor], coverage...
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