More on "The Local: East Village"

Here is more on The Local: East Village, the NYU-New York Times hybrid web publication, from NYU's Jay Rosen. We discussed this a bit yesterday. (And some of our criticism was interpreted by a few people to mean that 1. we hate students! and 2. we hate "new ideas"! Which, yes. Yes, we hate the young and their newfangled web journalism ideas! Isn't that position obvious?) Now give that a read and you all can make up your own minds what you think of this new publication and we wish the young folks involved all the best in a great news-gathering experience! Obviously we have a couple [...]
