Old boundaries dissolve

"All of us appreciate that one of the biggest long-term challenges facing our craft is to invent a digital journalism and new services for our readers that both live up to our high standards and help carry the cost of a great news-gathering organization.We have concluded that our best chance of meeting that challenge is to integrate the two newsrooms into one."

- NY Times executive editor Bill Keller, in a memo to staff, on plans to merge the paper's print and online teams