Soundbite: NYTPicker Speaks!

“Once every few weeks, social media editor Jennifer Preston calls us cowards and invites us to lunch. Otherwise, not really.”

— If you are a follower of the New York Times you are probably familiar with the blog NYTPicker, the website that “devotes itself exclusively to the goings-on inside the New York Times — the newspaper and the institution itself.” In other words, they watch the goings on at the Times better than most including, arguably, the Times. Recently this has included breaking stories about Maureen Dowd’s plagiarism, this weeks buyouts, and yesterday’s post regarding the Times’ strange holiday guide. MediaShift landed an interview with the Pickers; still no word on who runs the site — it’s six people — but apparently they are all “very attractive.”

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