New York Times Eliminates Environment Desk
The New York Times is dismantling its environment desk and reassigning its two editors and seven reporters. Dean Baquet, managing editor at the Times, told Inside Climate News that the decision was made to shut the desk down because environmental news is no longer a separate thing from other news items.
Environmental articles, Baquet explained, were now “partly business, economic, national or local, among other subjects. They are more complex. We need to have people working on the different desks that can cover different parts of the story.”
Those
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