An internal committee study, reports Tuesday’s The Guardian, has concluded that the New York Times must respond to “growing pressure by pledging to increase its coverage of religion and the rural areas in the US, while also recruiting journalists who have military experience.”
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The Guardian continues:
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“It’s about accommodation”:
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At the report’s core, argues Mr Wolff, is the bid to become a truly national newspaper in a country where most papers are local, and where political divisions are partly informed by geography – Republicans in the middle, and Democrats on the coasts and in the north.
“At its heart this is part of a new business model,” says Mr Wolff. “Just because they are a national paper doesn’t mean they have to accommodate everyone. But they do have to accommodate more people than they have until now.”
Full article at The Guardian