So what happened to the overnight reviews at The New York Times? Not having seen any
since the first one ran on Nov. 1 in the Metro section of the print edition, I wondered whether my
report had been wrong.
This morning I asked Jonathan Landman, the cultural editor of the Times, in a gmail message:
“Can readers expect to see more overnights in the future? Are you phasing them in slowly or have
you dropped the idea (and if so, why)?”
He replied: “You were right, though a tad premature. We hope to start these on a regular
basis in a couple of months. until then, we’ll do it when the occasion warrants — probably a bit
more often than we’ve done it in the past, but not on any fixed schedule.”
Once the policy goes full bore, will overnights run in the arts section, where readers are
accustomed to looking for reviews? Or will they continue to run in the Metro section of the print
edition? We didn’t get into that. My guess is Metro, due to its later production deadlines, unless
the paper rejiggers its printing schedule.
Meantime, this morning’s front page had a surprise for classical musicians who’ve been feeling
as desperate about their base as Democrats about theirs. When was the last time the paper gave
front-page treatment to a non-news feature profile about a fill-in opera singer? Not in recent
memory. Maybe never?
