NYT to host Google+ Hangouts On Air with Olympic athletes
The hangouts, which will be hosted by New York Times journalists and include 'select fan participants', will be broadcast live on the news site
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The New York Times will today host the first in a series of Google+ Hangouts On Air with US athletes who will be travelling to the UK for the Olympics.
The video chats will be broadcast live on Google+ and on the London 2012 section of the New York Times site , where the conversations can be replayed.
The six Olympics hangouts will be hosted by New York Times journalists and "select fan participants", according to a Google+ post . Other fans can submit questions via Google+ and Twitter before and during the events using the hashtag #london2012hangout.
The first hangout is today (11 July) at 6pm New York time (11pm UK time) and they run until 17 July.
The New York Times has been experimenting with Google+ Hangouts , with the opinion team and others using the video chat option to engage with audiences.
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Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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