Curating New York Times long-form a good idea, just not for the public editor

Poynter :: About 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane announced that his assistant would start curating the Times’ best long-form journalism each day, posting links to @NYTlongreads. A couple of hours and three long-form stories later, the curation ended.

I am discontinuing @nytlongreads because Times reserves NYT handles for its own accounts and may offer such a service in the future

— The Public Editor (@thepubliceditor) May 8, 2012

[Steve Myers:] As it turned out, it was a pretty good idea, and it’s been on the back burner awhile in the Times newsroom.

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