1.0 link 157843 <![CDATA[New York Times Forming "Environmental SWAT Team"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/14/new-york-times-forming-en_n_157843.html On Thursday, The New York Times will launch a new, crack environmental reporting unit that will pull in eight specialized reporters from the Science, National, Metro, Foreign, and Business desks in a bid for richer, more prominent coverage.

CJR received a copy of an e-mail that the Times's executive editor, Bill Keller, sent to staff in mid-December announcing the newsroom reorganization, in which he describes the paper's rationale:

The Times has a long and distinguished record of covering the complex of issues...
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