Lee had seen a broadly publicized image showing The New York Times' evolving coverage of an Occupy Wall Street conflict on the Brooklyn Bridge between protesters and law enforcement officers.

[6] In a 2013 article in the Columbia Journalism Review, Kira Goldenburg wrote that NewsDiffs was "a side passion project" stored on MIT's servers and modified during holiday weekends.

[6] In a 2015 Columbia Journalism Review article, Chava Gourarie wrote that Eric Price is continuing to do "maintenance work" on NewsDiffs "every few months".

Most are fairly innocuous: sentence structure is changed, paragraphs are moved up or down, statements are added, quotes omitted, headlines are made more social media-friendly.

Eric Price agreed, noting that many articles have a "gotcha tone", for example when authors discuss how The New York Times made a substantive revision without publishing a correction.

[1] Kira Goldenberg of the Columbia Journalism Review shared the same view, writing that, "there's no way to tell if tracked changes will be significant without browsing through the exhaustive list."

She said that was a "shame" because when NewsDiffs stores "significant changes that aren't noted as corrections", The New York Times can be found failing to follow its own guidelines.

[6] She also wrote that the "site attracted coverage when it first went live, but it continues to serve as a unique source for media analysis in an era when journalists can revise copy with a click.