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Nieman Journalism Lab’s exit interview with Raju Narisetti

Raju Narisetti does not seem like the kind of guy who settles. “I’m a big believer in newsrooms being in a permanent beta stage,” he told me recently. His Twitter bio hits inspirational notes (“Everything seems impossible until it is done”), but until a few days ago, it also included a sentence inspired by the French Revolution: “So follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die advancing.”

Others can parse whether his most recent move — from managing editor of The Washington Post to managing editor of the WSJ Digital Network — counts as an advance, a retreat, or something else entirely. Narisetti, 45, is a Wall Street Journal alum and will help fill a void created with Kevin Delaney’s departure to The Atlantic.” Source: Nieman Journalism Lab

Interesting interview with the former WaPo managing editor who marshalled its ongoing digital integration. Quite telling that the online and print department were not based in the same building before the restructuring.

(Source: niemanlab.org)