NYT merges print, online newsrooms

In another blow to the 1990's model of splitting newspaper dot-coms from their print siblings, the New York Times has annouced that it will merge its print and online newsrooms. Eventually, the two operations will be housed in a common building, but until construction of the new space is complete, editors on both sides will start the process by working together more closely, according to a staff memo published by Jim Romenesko.

By integrating the newsrooms we plan to diminish and eventually eliminate the difference between newspaper journalists and Web journalists -- to reorganize our structures and our minds to make Web journalism, in forms that are both familiar and yet-to-be-invented, as natural to us as writing and editing, and to do all of this without losing the essential qualities that make us The Times. Our readers are moving, and so are we.

The unresolved question? What happens to NYTimes.com editors, now that their print counterparts will have authority over the corresponding sections on NYTimes.com?