April 19, 2024
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In a move that presages more changes within the New York Times’ technology and product teams, chief technology officer Rajiv Pant will leave to take a job at a New York-based start-up, I’ve learned. (Addition: That start-up is Some Spider, ...
Sometimes, corporate decision-making is all grand strategy, expensive consultants, well-used whiteboards and intricate roadmaps. Other times, one thing just leads to another. New York Times C.E.O. Mark Thompson completed his own strategy detour ...
In a move both opportunistic and commonsensical, The New York Times finally filled its top digital job Monday. Kinsey Wilson becomes the Times’ first executive vice president for product and technology, charged with the huge task of ...
Intellectually, we all knew that the Internet was so big as to be virtually infinite. But it’s hard to know what to do with that squishy concept. Then BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti outlined his all-in approach in front of a couple thousand nerds at ...
First published at Capital New York The gristle and the gravel of his voice was unmistakable, on a phone call or calling into a public radio program. That such scratch could reach instant and repeated rhapsody at first jarred. Then we all ...
The Marshall Project is off to a fast start. Ten thousand people a day now receive its daily summary of the latest news in criminal justice, linking up the best reporting and writing on topics from law enforcement to courts to corrections. It’s ...
Ask anyone around The New York Times, and they’ll tell you C.E.O. Mark Thompson is a model of certitude. Confidence exudes from him, even in the face of business performance that leaves everyone else less sanguine. So it was this morning as ...
In The New York Times Company’s annual earnings conference call tomorrow, expect few surprises: 2014’s four quarters won’t be markedly different from 2013’s, the numbers adding up to a business still in mortal struggle, an enterprise in the ...
In a year of both triumphs and stumbles in The New York Times’ ungainly digital business progress, today’s appointment of Kinsey Wilson to the post of strategy and innovation editor makes a lot of sense. Wilson lost his job as NPR’s chief ...
Call it addition by subtraction, or deduction over misdirection. The commercial progress of Talking Points Memo is a telling lesson in the maturation of digital native news companies. TPM was born very much a blog, one of those early political ...
