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 A story at Editor and Publisher proclaims that the New York Times plans to experiment with what iBrattleboro contributors have been doing for years.
The article begins "The New York Times is joining the growing world of local "citizen journalism" with two Web sites launching Monday focused on five specific communities in New Jersey and Brooklyn, N.Y."
The article goes on to say that Times staff will lead each site, encouraging local residents to contribute most of their own news.
Jim Schachter, Times editor/digital initiatives, says that the mission "will be to encourage and instigate people in their communities to do their own reporting and contribute their own creativity to the community we are trying to build online"
Maplewood, South Orange and Millburn, NJ will get sites, as well as Fort Greene and Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, NY.
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Earlier this month I read somewhere that the Times annual delivery costs (raw material, transport, etc.) run around $650 million and that if they were to provide each of their 830,000 subscribers with a new Kindle, which sell for $350 each, that annual cost would still be cut in half.
The digital writing is on the e-wall.