New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Security Position

Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by chishaku on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:15PM (#21330144)

Information security is as unnecessary as a public editor.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/31/new-york-times-pub...

edit: /s

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Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by matt4077 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:21PM (#21330184)

The reasoning for eliminating the public editor was that today, social media does a far better job at it than anyone in-house ever could, especially considering the widespread view that it's impossible to independently criticise one's own organisation.

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Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by will4274 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:28AM (#21331371)

Which is, of course, ridiculous. The public editor (or ombudsman at WaPo) served a crucial role in giving official "news" status and internal information about drawbacks in their own reporting - neither function which can be filled by randoms on social media.

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Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by samirillian on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:24PM (#21330190)

I'm assuming this is ironic?

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