Earlier this week Radaronline.com’s Choire Sicha dropped by a panel discussion that featured, among others, NYTimes.com designer Khoi Vinh, nymag.com design man Ian Adelman and soothsayer Andrew Essex.
They argued that the future of media—magazines and newspapers—doesn’t rest in some gimmicky Esquire cover. Nor does it rest in repurposing magazine material for the Read More
Are the deadlines at The New York Times about to change?
Moments ago, a big-bylined memo from Keller-Abramson-Landman-Geddes went out staff-wide to reporters and editors saying that, essentially, to make it easier on the digital side, copy flow at the paper needs to change.
They compare their current system to “an old-fashioned electrical utility.”
Too Read More
The old online editor at Portfolio, Chris Jones, is joining the digital side of nytimes.com. The last time we heard from Mr. Jones, he was fleeing the increasingly encroaching presence of the business side at portfolio.com.
His new title looks very 2.0: "Senior Product Manager of the Business and Technology Verticals." The Times is Read More
According to internal traffic measures, the Web site of the New York Times broke single-day traffic records this week—then broke them again the very next day.
For the primaries on Super Tuesday, nytimes.com served up 35.9 million pages, according to a memo sent to staff this morning by company Web executives. By their count, that’s Read More
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. has been juggling two things when considering ads like the one that dominated the New York Times home page yesterday: good money from advertisers versus frustrated readers. His decision: to limit those ads to once a month.
Times spokesperson Catherine Mathis writes Media Mob:
When such novel advertisements have been allowed, Read More
Today, a big swath of the nytimes.com home page has been taken over by an Apple ad. Directly below the New York Times banner, there’s a banner ad with a quote from The Wall Street Journal comparing Apple’s Leopard software (favorably) to Windows’ Vista . To the right, in a double-wide skyscraper ad placement, there’s Read More
