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November 01, 2004
BACK ON DEADLINE
Overnight reviews are back, in case you hadn't noticed, at The New York Times. The first one in years -- an opera review by Anthony Tommasini, of "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" -- appeared this morning in the Metro section on page B2. (Online it's listed in the Arts section.) Overnight notices used to be the custom for ink-stained critics. I recall pushing midnight deadlines on theater reviews for the morning edition at the Chicago Sun-Times. Not all NY Times reviews will be overnights, according to classical music editor James R. Oestreich, only those deemed practical and/or appropriate because of an event's importance. He told a conference of music critics at Columbia University several weeks ago that the move is part of the paper's effort to give its arts coverage more zing.
Postscript: Here's an update on those overnights.
Posted by at November 1, 2004 11:47 AM
