New York Times C.I.O. Marc Frons to Leave the Company

Executive change often drives more executive change, and that’s what the word is today coming out of The New York Times. This morning, S.V.P. and Chief Information Officer Marc Frons announced his departure, an amicable one that provides the Times—and its new E.V.P. for Product and Technology ...

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Times C.T.O. Rajiv Pant Leaves to Join Start-Up Some Spider

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, headed by former NYT paywall executive Paul Smurl) ...

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The Newsonomics of Daily Beast’s Quantified News Reader

What’s in your news diet? Sure, we can name the sites, papers, and stations that pepper us with news through the day and week. But we can’t easily sum up what we’ve read and how much of it, or really get an accurate sense of the balance between serious Times or Guardian fare versus ...

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The Newsonomics of “Little Data,” Data Scientists, and Conversion Specialists

First published at Nieman Journalism Lab OSLO — Arthur Sulzberger surprised some people recently when asked what he would do differently in the digital transition, given hindsight. Hire more engineers, he said. It wasn’t an off-the-cuff comment. Each FTE is precious at The New York Times and at ...

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The Newsonomics of Why Paywalls Now?

Why paywalls now? Why weren’t paywalls put into place in 2007, or 2002, or 1997? Might such paywalls have prevented the massive loss of reporting that local papers — and local readers — have suffered? Would they have saved a good number of the more than 15,000 newsroom jobs (a 28 percent ...

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The Newsonomics of All-Access Delight

Remember the first time you got cross-platform delight? For me, it was when I started a second look at “Lost in Translation” on my TV, happened to click on my Netflix app while working out the next day, and was astounded to see the film paused precisely and ready to start where I’d left off, ...

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The Newsonomics of Apps and HTML5

Publishers have to wonder: Is it the romance with discrete, ownable apps that consumers are willing to pay for, or is it the wider experience? We can see, in the makings of Apple’s evolving publisher subscription policies, an understanding of this dilemma. That may be why Apple is forcing news ...

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iPad and the New Five-Fingered Exercise

I think we'll see these companies go head-to-head for reader and subscriber dollars. As they do, I think they'll face a new five-fingered exercise. Raise one hand; five is the probably the maximum number of iPad news sites for which readers will pay.

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Times Extra Aims to Reclaim the Digital Page One

Figure the average newspaper reader spends maybe 10-15 minutes a day with the paper, somewhat more on Sunday. Multiply that out for a month and you get more than four hours of reading per month Figure the average online user spends maybe 10-15 minutes per month on an individual newspaper sites. ...

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