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The New York Times Will Now Cover ‘Policing And Race’ Instead Of ‘Cops’ And ‘Crime’

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The New York Times is trading its local coverage of “cops” and “crime” in for more progressive and trendy coverage of “policing and race,” as part of a massive revamp aimed at transforming the paper to better serve a global audience.

“The broader subject of policing and race is in,” the Times public editor, Liz Spayd, wrote in a weekend piece. “Cop coverage by jurisdiction is out. Subjects like demographics, gender and ethnicity are in. Community coverage is out.”

Under the new order, reporters will be freed up from daily beat reporting on specific crimes and events in local communities, and focus their energy on deeper and longer dives on hot topics more relevant to a global audience.

“The incremental news of the past will be replaced by stories with larger, more consequential themes,” Spayd wrote. “They’ll include investigations of individuals and institutions that wield outsize power; and they’ll include deeply reported narratives about the subjects that animate New York.”

The revamp is part of a larger overhaul at the Times led by a team of journalists who are advising executive editor Dean Baquet on the best strategies to avoid getting “left behind” in a changing media climate and adapt to a growing foreign audience, reports Politico. The goal is to see results by 2020.

“Everyone in the [Metro] department’s gonna have a new job,” metropolitan editor Wendell Jamieson told Politico. “I’m trying to reimagine coverage of what I believe is the greatest city in the world as part of a global news organization.”

The reimagined coverage will steer away from hyper local stories of crime, criminal cases and legislation.

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