[New York Times Chief Executive Mark Thompson] identified three areas toward which diversity efforts must be channeled: recruitment, hiring and promotion. Supervisors who fail to meet upper management’s requirements in recruiting and hiring minority candidates or who fail to seek out minority candidates for promotions face some stern consequences: They’ll be either encouraged to leave or be fired.
The Times is a perfect example of company-as-organism. Employees at the Times rarely go offsite for lunch or meetings. When you work there, your network is inside the building. That’s where all of the action is, where the valuable information is traded, where the battles are fought, and where the victories are won. When the Core Team or the Newsroom Team or the Beta Team finds a solution, it is a Times solution. Naturally there are inputs and outputs to the company, but like an organism, these are discrete — a mouth, a nose, an ear. At the Times, the Strategy Team pursues and manages strategic relationships for the company, takes in the resources needed to stay alive, and channels those to the rest of the organism. It’s the model of the companies our fathers and mothers worked at. And it worked great for them.
But in today’s world, it doesn’t. Companies with the organism mindset are too slow to adapt to survive in the modern world. The world around them changes, recombines, evolves, and they are stuck with their same old DNA, their same old problems, their same old (failed) attempts at solutions.
The New York Times re-invents Page One — and it’s better than print ever was » Nieman Journalism Lab
The New York Times smartphone products now have redefined Page One for the digital era. Finally, we have a model. Mobile can be harnessed to share the day’s news, and works far better to keep us informed than newsprint ever could.
For the first time, I see a newspaper-created product that seems utterly comfortable with the digital medium. It’s casual yet serious, with the hardest news of the day sidling up to winning features, commentary making an appearance where it makes sense and visuals of every variety — maps, graphics, photos, and illustrations — sized appropriately for a small screen. It’s information-dense, but not leaden. In a scan or a scroll of the moment’s news, readers can get a broad sense of what it indeed is happening. We also feel something we rarely have felt with digital newspaper products: playfulness.
(Source: niemanlab.org)
The New York Times said Tuesday that Jim Rutenberg, chief political correspondent for the Sunday magazine, will become its media columnist, filling a role that has been vacant since the death of David Carr about a year ago.
“Our hunt for David’s successor has been exhaustive, and we were privileged to have had extraordinary candidates from both inside and outside The Times,” the newspaper’s executive editor, Dean Baquet, and its business editor, Dean Murphy, said in a memo to the staff. “Jim brings to the job a passion for the story, a track record in covering the industry and the experienced eye of an astute observer.”
(Source: The New York Times)
With so many hours logged in a sea of emotions, insights and opinions, it seems impossible for Times comment moderators not to feel some kinship with those who are doing the commenting.
Here’s a glimpse at what we deal with:
• Around 9,000 submitted comments per day.
• Over 60,000 unique contributors per month.
• Approximately two million comment recommendations each month.
All of this for a system that allows comments only on a select few Times stories, with nearly every comment delayed for moderation, usually by a Times staffer. We review each submission, passing along your corrections and concerns to the newsroom, and protect thoughtful contributors from swarms of trolls.
ICYMI, the Times’ Community desk offers great insights for dealing with comments in a thoughtful way.
Read about their approach: The Most Popular Reader Comments on The Times - The New York Times
(Source: The New York Times)
“This past weekend, the gender neutral honorific “Mx.” was used in a story in The New York Times. Perhaps fittingly for the relatively recent alternative to the gender identifying pronouns “Mr.” and “Ms.,” “Mx.” was used in a story about Bluestockings, the collectively owned and volunteer-run radical bookstore and café.
“Are we anarchist?” Senia Hardwick asked. “Technically, yes.” Mx. Hardwick, 27, who prefers not to be assigned a gender — and also insists on the gender-neutral Mx. in place of Ms. or Mr. — is a staff member at Bluestockings, a bookshop and activist center at 172 Allen Street on the Lower East Side.
Like the idea of non-binary gender identification itself, the pronoun has been gaining cultural acceptance. Last June, the Times noted the increasingly popular pronoun, which had been used in a Times story about Barnard’s decision to join the ranks of women’s colleges that accept transgender applicants.”
(Source: observer.com)
NYT VR: How to Experience a New Form of Storytelling From The Times - The New York Times
Today, The New York Times takes a step into virtual reality. NYT VR is a mobile app that can be used — along with your headphones and optionally a cardboard viewing device — to simulate richly immersive scenes from across the globe.
(Source: The New York Times)
Rather than look to large tech platforms to propose the future of news, perhaps there is a great opportunity for news organizations themselves to rethink those assumptions. After all, it is publishers who have the most to gain from innovation around their core products. So what might news look like if we start to rethink the way we conceive of articles?
The horror was the dawning realization, as the video spread across the networks, that the killer had anticipated the moves — that he had been counting on the mechanics of these services and on our inability to resist passing on what he had posted. For many, that realization came too late. On these services, the killer knew, you often hit retweet, like or share before you realize just quite what you have done.
Virginia Shooting Gone Viral, in a Well-Planned Rollout on Social Media - The New York Times
Farhad Manjoo reflects on the televised killing of two journalists on Wednesday and the suspect’s use of social media to share video footage in the wake of their deaths.
(Source: The New York Times)
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