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Random Question

By Daniel Kushner • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: The Blog

When did the New York Times start using hyperlinks to external sources?

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, where “their mothers died” links to a UNICEF report. Is this a new policy? Have we simply not noticed it before?

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  1. Anindita Ghose on June 25th, 2009 at 9:54 pm:

    They’ve been hyperlinking for a while, presumably in the hope that others will link back to them and hence increase traffic. I do agree that in a bid to crosslink, editors often go a little loopy.

  2. Cheree Franco on June 28th, 2009 at 3:10 am:

    it seems strange that NYT would be pandering from cross-links from UNCIF, but it also seems strange that they didn’t just cite UNICEF textually, i.e. “according to a recent UNCIF report”? Isn’t journalism about collecting, compiling and distilling the information, and making the sources transparent, rather than sending readers off on their own fact-checking missions?

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