10 questions: Margot Williams: a 24-hour news cycle and competition from other news outlets keep Margot Williams busy helping reporters at the New York times meet the paper's high standards for accuracy and thoroughness.

Information Outlook › Vol. 13 Nbr. 6, September 2009

Author: Spencer, Forrest Glenn

Position:: SLA MEMBER PROFILE - Interview

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10 questions: Margot Williams: a 24-hour news cycle and competition from other news outlets keep Margot Williams busy helping reporters at the New York times meet the paper's high standards for accuracy and thoroughness.

Margot Williams has been part of the changing media landscape pitting newspapers against the Internet and other online influences. She is a database research editor with The New York Times and for the last five years has been part of a computer-assisted reporting team at the Times' city desk.

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Ten years ago she won the Pulitzer Prize for public service at The Washington Post for an investigative team project on the deadly force shooting of civilians in Washington, D.C. Her work in helping the Post report on the war on terrorism led to another Pulitzer ...

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