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C-SPAN has posted 57 seconds of Brian Lamb’s interview with Jill Abramson, which will air on Oct. 30. The New York Times executive editor is asked: What’s the one thing you’d change at the paper. Keach Hagey transcribes her response:
I don’t want every story to be 1,800 words. I think in general, we have a lot of long stories that need to be long, things like Amy Harmon’s profile of a young adult with autism, which you know was very very long, but worth every word. There is a certain lack of discipline sometimes. A point is repeated too many times in a story or there are three quotes making the same point where one would do and I’d like to see a variety of story lines.
In other Times news, John Koblin did some quick math and figured out that about 43,000 people bought a subscription to the Times’ Web site in the third quarter. That, he says, “suggests that there’s still some demand for access to the Times Web site, but that it has slowed considerably. It also leads to the bigger question as to whether the demand for paid readership to its site is beginning, however slowly, to stall out.”
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