June 25, 2014

The New York Times’ Lede blog is going away, but its “great breaking news content” will “instead be packaged differently and found in the relevant section of our site,” Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy tells Poynter.

The Times has been “moving away from blogs over the past year and a half,” Murphy said. It ended its Green blog last year, for example.

Assistant Managing Editor Ian Fisher tells Poynter “almost half” of Times blogs will close or merge.

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Andrew Beaujon reported on the media for Poynter from 2012 to 2015. He was previously arts editor at TBD.com and managing editor of Washington City…
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