In a Q&A with readers at NYTimes.com, Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal lets slip that “in the not-too-distant future” selected articles, editorials, and columns on the Times‘ website will feature user commenting. The paper is planning on continuing to approve each and every submitted comment before publication, so it could be a slow roll-out. I don’t envy the interns whose job that is. But along with the demise of Times Select, this is more evidence that the paper of record is embracing the digital age.

–Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.