The Times is opening up the majority if its articles to comments from readers, up from 10 percent currently, according to the memo. The latest round of buyouts will be mostly offered to editors, as the Times seeks to shift the balance of editors to reporters, according to a memo filed with regulators from Dean Baquet, executive editor, and Joe Kahn, managing editor. (bit.ly/2qAZw9W)Liz Spayd, the current public editor, will leave the paper on Friday, according to the memo from Sulzberger. "The one thing an ombud or public editor can almost always do is hold feet to the fire, and get a real answer out of management," Margaret Sullivan, former public editor at the New York Times, said in a Twitter post in response to the news. "The role, by definition, is a burr under the saddle for the powers that be," she said.

Source: bd News24 May 31, 2017 21:22 UTC