There's some financial newspaper out there, on Wall Street or maybe in midtown, we aren't sure. There's new ownership, it seems, some rich guy who says he wants his paper to be more like ours. So we challenged him to compete head to head with our Thanksgiving Day Topics Page. That was seven months ago. So far, nothing.

They must be busy covering the bad economy. Hard to do both, we suppose.

Challenge
It was many, many months ago that we challenged Rupert Murdoch to a Thanksgiving Day Topic Page faceoff. Here's our Thanksgiving Day Topic Page, we said.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/thanksgiving_day/index.html

Where's yours? We didn't get an answer. (And WSJ customers didn't get a
topic page!)

To: The Staff From: Jonathan Landman & Vivian Schiller

July 18, 2008

There's some financial newspaper out there, on Wall Street or maybe in midtown, we aren't sure. There's new ownership, it seems, some rich guy who says he wants his paper to be more like ours. So we challenged him to compete head to head with our Thanksgiving Day Topics Page. That was seven months ago. So far, nothing.

They must be busy covering the bad economy. Hard to do both, we suppose. We sympathize, yet at the same time we don't see why a snappy Web site can't do turkeys and dismal science. Especially one with all those imaginative
uses of multimedia, topics pages, blogs, reader comments and other fresh and exciting things.

Markets
If you want to really dig into the economic news you have to crunch some numbers. You can get them by clicking around on a bunch of government and reference Web sites. Or you can click here.
http://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/markets/overview/overview.asp

That's our redesigned and expanded Markets section. It's a data fest with all sorts of specialty mini-sites.

Like currencies
http://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/markets/currencies/currencies.asp

Consumer rates
http://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/markets/rates/rates.asp

Bonds
http://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/markets/bonds/bonds.asp

And a bunch of others.

There's also a new section front for Economy, the first of a group of ambitious sub-verticals in the Business section.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/economy/index.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1215806444-PouHR1C5bnPnngVYtmBPSA

Coming in Economy: An economics blog by David Leonhardt and Catherine Rampell.

Perspective
It's no longer unusual to see professional athletes blogging. Still, it's nice when they do it for us.
http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/basketball-diary-in-baltimore-preparing-for-beijing/

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/milton-bradley-what-have-i-done-now/

Young
It's the young folks who are adapting to the Web, right? Hah!
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/fashion/20080713_STREET_FEATURE/index.html

He does it every week. People like it. Here's a piece of fan mail:

"Mr. Cunningham: I've been a regular reader of nytimes.com for a couple of years, and I enjoy so much about the site. The interactivity of readers adding comments on various stories of note, the excellent writing, features, columns. But I must tell you, your pieces make my week every time. I can't wait to see the slide shows and familiar streets, the
vibrancy of the photos. But it is always your voice, your accent, your cheery and bemused take on the fashion that I really enjoy. Thanks so much. Keep it up! (I've been hoping we readers would have the option to comment
on your stuff...perhaps soon!)"