A preliminary rendering of the third and fourth floors of The Times’s newsroom after renovation shows two large video arrays. The distant panels are in the new Page 1 room.
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Some newspaper terms have outlived the physical reality they once described.
Here’s another: Page 1 meeting room.
Never mind that the front page of tomorrow’s newspaper is no longer the lodestar of The New York Times and that the formal gathering known as the Page 1 meeting was given up two years ago.
Dean Baquet, the executive editor, and Joseph Kahn, the managing editor, have announced that a central newsroom meeting space will open this year as part of the renovation of our headquarters. They called it the “new Page 1 room.”
“A square of couches will replace the current vast conference table in an effort to foster a meeting more like the informal coverage conversations that happen in our offices; glass walls will promote transparency and, along with the room’s location, make the space more accessible to the rest of the newsroom,” they told the staff. “When not in use for a meeting, Page 1 will serve as a lounge of sorts available to anyone who wants to get away from their desk to work or meet casually.”