New York Times Offers Email Updates on Paris News

Nieman Lab: While looking at the New York Times’s coverage of the Paris terrorist attacks, you might have noticed something new: a field prompting you to sign up for email updates on the story. It’s the first time that the Times has given its readers the option of following a story at this scale via email. The experiment was spearheaded by the interactive news desk in collaboration with the foreign desk and audience development.