NYT Editor Takes To Twitter To Discuss Disappeared, ‘Inaccurate,’ Decoder Post

The New York Times Social Media Editor Jen Preston (@NYT_JenPreston) has come under fire in the past for not using her Twitter account to its greatest effect (or at all, before she was hired for the job). But Preston took to Twitter like an expert last night to engage in a discussion over the NYT.com’s controversial removal of a Media Decoder post.

As we reported yesterday, the NYT.com Media Decoder blog published a report revealing that David Blum was the anonymous blogger behind NYTPicker, the blog about the New York Times. An hour or so they removed it with no explanation. A few hours after that they posted an entirely unsatisfactory explanation (Blum is not behind NYTPicker), which didn’t allow for comments. Enter @NYT_JenPreston, who didn’t shy away from the conversation one bit, and who seems to suggest that it is okay to pull down in its entirety an error-filled post, as opposed to erring on the side of, say, transparency (also, that the NYTPickers are cowards for remaining anonymous?). While we wait for further explanation from the NYT.com here is Preston’s twitterfeed from last night:

And here’s the larger picture from a Twitter search:

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