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November 08, 2004
STILL ON TRACK
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?
Posted by at November 8, 2004 12:57 PM
