The New York Times on Monday announced it will close its City Room blog, which for years has been a clearinghouse for the paper’s metro news:
The reasons are mostly boring journalism-business stuff. In 2007, blogs were the wave of the future. At its blogmaniacal peak, The Times had about 80 of them.
But Times blogs run on a different publishing platform from the rest of the Times website, and eventually we realized they were creating a lot of extra work. Now The Times has only about 20 active blogs.
The announcement, which appeared in a City Room post under Andy Newman’s byline, comes during a period of consolidation for blogging at The New York Times. The paper recently removed three blogs from its directory, though each had been silent for some time.
Last year, The New York Times announced it would close or merge almost half of its blogs.
