newsroom

If a newsroom is using WordPress, sure, they know of the concept of article versions...

My intent was to describe newsroom practices, not to express an opinion about the NYT's rewrites.

The first person who writes the article is the person who was on duty in the newsroom or its virtual equivalent when the news broke.

In fact, the newsroom, while increasingly aware of a controlled set of analytics, works almost completely without concern for the financial aspects of the company.

This was the official policy in at least one newsroom where I worked.

It's like you're looking perfectly into a newsroom.

While this might change over time, I can assure you that it will be very very controlled and that the newsroom has stronger veto power than marketing and advertising.

Her perception seems to have been that tracking changes would have been too much of a burden -- and she is justified in thinking this if she has never worked with something that uses a diff-like program...and in my experience, this includes most news people...in a newsroom, editing and re-editing stories and supplying reasons (i.e.

The reason we don't see history tabs is probably a combination of legal risk (imagine that a green reporter writes that John Doe was convicted of murder, and John Doe was the prosecutor, not the defendant), little demand from readers, embarrassment about errors in early versions, and newspaper-era newsroom thinking.

It replaces neutral reportage -- "a week of ceaseless criticism" -- with the newspaper asserting as fact that Silicon Valley represents a more "entrenched sexist culture" than, say, the NYT newsroom itself.