(2019-08-16) Bad Headline Small Changes At The New York Times Pressthink

Jay Rosen: Bad headline, small changes at the New York Times. It started on August 5th. Public reaction to a majestically bad headline, "Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism", was so strong that executive editor Dean Baquet had to do multiple interviews to explain what happened and limit the damage. These pieces are still coming in.

I asked earlier what kind of public actor can readers, supporters and subscribers realistically expect the Times to be? We got an answer this week. The kind of actor that still thinks it’s just an observer

there’s a new factor. Some of the same dissatisfactions are shared by a younger and more diverse generation of Times journalists, people the organization cannot succeed without.