Recently the New York Times has been asking its head honchos to take to the mail bag and answer some of their readers most pressing questions in a section called “Talk to the Newsroom.” Executive Editor Bill Keller and head editors from almost every section have taken part in the column, and this week interactive design guru Khoi Vinh is the latest to give us some insight into what the Times does and why they do it.
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Browsing through the multimedia section of the Times online today, I stumbled across an audio piece from their Dining and Wine section (I try to pretend I’m a wine buff sometimes) on Pinot Noirs from the Russian River Valley section of California. I thought “Hey! How cool, I wonder what kind of interactive multimedia they’ve put together for a piece on wine!” My preemptive excitement was short-lived.
The thumbnails on the left side played some audio of NYTimes wine …

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