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Oct 26

Times Editor Leaks ‘Apple Slate’ News — Sorta

Posted in: Apple, Media Players, rumors, tablet, Today's Chili

Bill Keller speaks to the digital group at The New York Times from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.

New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller may have let slip something about an upcoming Apple tablet — but you have to make a lot of assumptions to interpret his comment as confirmation that an Apple tablet is really coming. Speaking to the digital media group at the Times, Keller spoke of his hopes that the newsroom would get more involved in delivering the news via various online media:

I’m hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in the challenge of delivering our best journalism in the form of Times Reader, iPhone apps, WAP, or the impending Apple slate, or whatever comes after that.

Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab posted the video of Keller (embedded above — fast forward to 8:30 to see the quote) as well as a transcript of Keller’s talk.

Gawker pounced on the comment as, perhaps, an inadvertent case of letting the truth slip out. The Times has been rumored to have met with Apple on the future of digital media — as has Wired parent company Condé Nast — and many assume such discussions included talk of delivering the news to an upcoming, e-reader-like Apple device.

But the Apple tablet is also one of the most widely expected devices of the year, and it’s just possible that the executive editor of the Times maybe, you know, reads the news?

In short: It’s not much of a confirmation at all. But then, we all know an Apple tablet is coming, right? Right?

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