Eat Sleep Publish: Interview with New York Times SEO expert Marshall Simmonds
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 21:56
"I had a chance to ask Marshall Simmonds, who is the Chief Search Strategist for the New York Times, a few technical questions about SEO for newspapers. As you’d expect, the answers are a little bit technical too. But this might be a good one to forward to your team of developers."
Charlie Beckett: Journalism is NOT in crisis - it’s official! (Oxford says so)
Sunday, 28 September 2008, 08:38
Arthur Sulzberger at Oxford: "The ‘Titanic’s real problem was not the iceberg or a useless captain. Its real problem was the airplane. Eventually all steamships lost their business to airlines. But we didn’t stop travelling. In fact we travel more. Journalism is like travel. It will change modes, but the need and demand for the product will not decline. Our job is to build flying machines."
New York Times: Bits: The A.P.I. Bug Hits Old Retail and Old Media
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 22:51
"Mashery, a two-year-old San Francisco start-up, is working with old-line firms like Hoover’s, Reuters, and even the New York Times, to develop A.P.I.’s. It is essentially in the business of turning internal streams of once-proprietary corporate data into outbound rivers of information that other Web sites can drink from freely."
Virtual Economics: Outsource the specific, not the general
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 10:32
Seamus McCauley on BreakingViews deals with the NY Times and Telegraph: "… there's a market for maybe half a dozen finance and markets columns and everyone who's serious about their content in this space will duly move to provide it as a wire; that every newspaper really doesn't need its own trivial variation on the same content but will ultimately pick one or perhaps two of these central ones…"
Sixth W: NYT to release open-source “document viewer” for investigative journalism
Saturday, 13 September 2008, 17:59
"To help create their fantastic piece about Hillary Clinton’s White House schedules, the NYT developed a tool to aid them in analysis of the enormous amount of information that the schedules contained. Today at the Online News Association conference, Aron Pilhofer, editor of interactive news tech at the NYT, told a session audience that they are planning to release this tool as an open-source project!"
Portfolio: Murdoch: I Won’t Put the ‘Times’ Out of Business
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 07:11
Rupert Murdoch tp Esquire: "It's bullshit to say we're going to dumb down The Wall Street Journal. We didn't dumb down the London Times — we made the London Times. The Sunday Times, too. Are they a little more popular than they were? Yes. They are populist papers. You've got to listen to readers."
New York Observer: Times Consolidates Media Desk; Culture, Business Reporters Moved Into ‘New Mini-Department’
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 07:32
"The New York Times is assembling a media desk! Of course, the paper has always had top-notch media coverage. But in the past coverage of the media has come from different desks and at times put reporters at cross-purposes… Bruce Headlam, the media editor for the business department, will run the day-to-day operations of the new mini-department."
Portfolio.com: At ‘NY Times,’ the Futurist Is Now…Leaving
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 22:20
"New media guru Michael Rogers, who for the past two years has mulled the long-term challenges facing the news media as the paper's futurist-in-residence, is leaving to go back to consulting. No word yet on whether the Times will replace him."
The Australian: New York Times issues correction… 48 years later
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 07:22
"America's most famous newspaper today issued a formal correction to a review of a Broadway production of West Side Story published no less than 48 years ago."
Gawker: Is Olympic Coverage Worth $412,000?
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 07:20
"The New York Times has 32 reporters covering the Olympics in Beijing. Thirty-two! That's quite an investment from a company in the newspaper industry. … Is this Olympics coverage worth the cost?"
Micro Persuasion: New York Times Flags Print Edition Stories
Sunday, 10 August 2008, 23:34
"The New York Times recently made a small, but important change to stories they post on their web site. If the story made it into print, at the bottom they include a tiny footnote that says where it ran and when."
American Journalism Review: Handheld Headlines
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 23:28
"James Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com, says that news companies are positioning themselves with mobile offerings because they anticipate audience growth in the next few years."
American Journalism Review: Handheld Headlines
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 23:28
"James Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com, says that news companies are positioning themselves with mobile offerings because they anticipate audience growth in the next few years."
Monday, 21 July 2008, 22:27
Comments
"Comments are thought to be an added value to a newspaper’s site—providing another reason to read. You come for the article, and stay for the interesting discussion. The only problem is, there is no interesting discussion. Almost never."
