A colleague prompted me about this today, and I’m sure someone has probably written about it before, but I’m blogging about it because it shows some of the pace of change in the news industry, and serves as a lesson as we prepare college journalists for the future.
Here’s the masthead for the New York Times online:
The Times, which didn’t even run color photographs a couple of decades ago, which had the most hideous front page design this side of the Wall Street Journal, has become a leader in innovation as well as solid journalism. Notice anything about that masthead?
Take a closer look (with the help of my little red arrow):
“All the news that’s fit to BLOG.” Quite a change for the Old Grey Lady.
on Oct 3rd, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I think they’ve been toying with it - I heard it said ‘All the news fit to click’ earlier this week.
on Oct 3rd, 2007 at 6:29 pm
And all the news fit to innovate, as well. A word the CICM loves.
on Oct 3rd, 2007 at 8:09 pm
When I was a student journalist, sometime in the previous century, our motto was: “All the news that fits, we print.”
on Oct 3rd, 2007 at 10:32 pm
The first words I thought when I saw this post were, in typical Gen-Y fashion, “Shut up!”
I didn’t believe it, even seeing your screen shot. I had to go to NYTimes.com to make sure. I guess it shows not to take anything for granted. Nothing is so ingrained to that it can’t be re-thought.
on Oct 4th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Looks like it’s not there today.
on Oct 4th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Thank heaven for screen shots, or nobody would believe me! Maybe it’s a rotating thing.