Must I even state my bias anymore? Okay, fine, blah, I’m obsessed with the NYT. And yet they make it so easy! Here’s the newest reason why: Mediaweek reports that The New York Times Company is building search products to search through Twitter, ultimately hoping to generate insightful commentary for news items. The company already employs a similar tool on its superluxe blog The Moment, which aggregates relevant Twitter fodder from its editors and readers.

I think Twitter’s internal search is pretty lame, so I’m excited about this development. It’ll certainly help those of us who rely on and monitor online media, plus it deepens the ever-widening boundaries of journalism—citizen and otherwise.

-Elise