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recent bookmarks from jerrykingNew York Times to Close Sports Desk, Rely on the Athletic for Daily Coverage - WSJ2023-07-11T03:25:11+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-to-close-sports-desk-rely-on-the-athletic-for-daily-coverage-168c0202?mod=hp_lead_pos6
jerrykingNYThttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:55e33ab305f6/He Pushed the New York Times to Buy Wordle. Now He Has to Make Sports Work.2023-07-10T05:02:44+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/he-pushed-the-new-york-times-to-buy-wordle-now-he-has-to-make-sports-work-ea22d743?mod=wknd_pos1
jerryking> David Perpich, cousin of publisher A.G. Sulzberger, was an architect of the subscriber bundle of games, a cooking app, the Wirecutter and sports-media site the Athletic<<
Perpich, a fifth-generation member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family that has long controlled the Times, has been a force in its expansion beyond news into areas like games, cooking and product recommendations.
Now that strategy faces its biggest test: Will becoming a big player in sports-media, through the $550 million acquisition of the Athletic last year, pay off? Perpich has become the publisher of the Athletic, and its fortunes could have a major bearing on his legacy as a proponent of innovation within the Times.
The company now sells an “All Access” bundle with a range of products it hopes will help lure in new subscribers and make it hard for them to walk away.
“I started to get really interested in this idea that the Times was a newspaper, and newspapers were more than about news. They were a **bundle of information** [i.e. = "data products"],” he said. To map his idea, Perpich drew a daisy on a whiteboard, with news in the middle, and other products as the petals.
>>Sports<< was a missing petal. “Even though we have great sports coverage at the Times, it’s really targeted more towards the general interest audience,” he said. “Fandom is so huge—how could we actually participate in that?” The Athletic offered the Times an audience of nearly one million subscribers addicted to coverage of their own local and favorite sports teams. ...............Meanwhile, Perpich faces a possible organizing effort inside the roughly 400-person Athletic newsroom—he says he won’t oppose a union—and the acquisition has introduced concerns from Times staffers about the future of the Times’s approximately 40-person sports desk. Perpich declined to comment on the sports desk’s future.
The Times’s overall bundling approach is bringing in subscribers. The company added around one million digital subscribers last year. It had 9.7 million total subscribers, including print, as of the first quarter, with a goal of reaching 15 million by 2027. The company is drawing a lot of those people in with steep discounts off the bundle’s list price of $25 per four weeks. Average revenue per digital customer was $9 in the first quarter, a decrease compared with a year earlier.
Eventually, the discounts will run their course, and the Times’s >>pricing power<< will be tested. Charging for a bundle of content is an age-old media concept that proved lucrative for the cable-TV industry for decades, until consumers started rebelling against high prices. The Times is betting consumers will conclude that its bouquet of offerings is worth a premium.
After business school and a stint in consulting, Perpich joined the Times in 2010 as an executive director focused on the launch of the website’s metered paywall, a move that shifted the company to a heavy focus on digital subscriptions. “I truly believe this is the model of the future,” he wrote to his cousin, former Times Vice Chairman Michael Golden, prior to joining the Times.
He went on to oversee the development of a stand-alone Cooking app and the popular Games suite of products. .........“The purchase of Wirecutter and the beginning of the cooking app was, to my mind, rebuilding for the modern age,”........Colleagues say Perpich encouraged experimentation. “We need a high tolerance to try things,”[i.e. = "failure-tolerant"] Chief Product Officer Alex Hardiman said. ........Perpich is mindful of the potential risk for the news organization as it ventures into other businesses. “From a brand perspective, we have to be careful that we don’t become known as a games company,” he said. “We’re not going to be the next Candy Crush.”
]]>bundling expansions failure-tolerant family_business fans games newspapers NYT sports subscriptions Wordle data_products digital_products pricing_powerhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:dd5b8236e69e/Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 922023-06-17T12:14:26+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/us/daniel-ellsberg-dead.html
jerryking>Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation.<<
Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who after experiencing a sobbing antiwar epiphany on a bathroom floor made the momentous decision in 1971 to disclose a secret history of American lies and deceit in Vietnam, what came to be known as the >>Pentagon Papers<<, died on Friday at his home in Kensington, Calif., in the Bay Area. He was 92........The disclosure of the Pentagon Papers — 7,000 government pages of damning revelations about deceptions by successive presidents who exceeded their authority, bypassed Congress and misled the American people — plunged a nation that was already wounded and divided by the war deeper into angry controversy.
It led to illegal countermeasures by the White House to discredit Mr. Ellsberg, halt >>leaks<< of government information and attack perceived political enemies, forming a constellation of crimes known as the >>Watergate<< scandal that led to the disgrace and resignation of >>President Richard M. Nixon<<...............Mr. Ellsberg was charged with espionage, conspiracy and other crimes and tried in federal court in Los Angeles. But on the eve of jury deliberations, the judge threw out the case, citing government >>misconduct<<, including illegal wiretapping, a break-in at the office of Mr. Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist and an offer by President Nixon to appoint the judge himself as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“The demystification and de-sanctification of the president has begun,” Mr. Ellsberg said after being released. “It’s like the defrocking of the Wizard of Oz.”........The story of Daniel Ellsberg in many ways mirrored the American experience in Vietnam, which began in the 1950s as a struggle to contain communism in Indochina and ended in 1975 with humiliating defeat in a corrosive war that killed more than 58,000 Americans and millions of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians..........He earned a doctorate at Harvard, joined the >>RAND<< Corporation and began studying game theory as applied to crisis situations and nuclear warfare.........By 1964, Mr. Ellsberg was an adviser to Defense Secretary >>Robert S. McNamara<<. As American involvement in Vietnam deepened, he went to Saigon in 1965 to evaluate civilian pacification programs......What he saw began his transformation. It went beyond the failure to win the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese. It was a mounting toll of civilian deaths, tortured prisoners and burned villages, a litany of brutality entered in military field reports as “clear and hold operations.”....To Mr. McNamara, Mr. Ellsberg forecast a dismal prospect of continued death and destruction, ending perhaps in an American withdrawal and victory for North Vietnam. His reports went nowhere. But Mr. McNamara summoned him in 1967, with 35 others, to compile a history of the Vietnam conflict.
Mr. Ellsberg’s contribution to the study was relatively modest. But he was deeply disturbed by its sweeping conclusions: that successive presidents had widened the war while concealing the facts from Congress and the American people.........Frustrated, >>disillusioned<< and aware that he might be committing a crime and could be sent to prison, Mr. Ellsberg approached Neil Sheehan, a veteran New York Times correspondent he had met in Vietnam, with the documents..........Mr. Ellsberg’s memoir, “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear Planner” (2017), which drew on his time in the 1950s and ’60s with the RAND Corporation and the Pentagon, described an era of terrifying nuclear proliferation and hair-trigger controls, and sounded an impassioned warning that the perils of a nuclear holocaust still existed.........Mr. Ellsberg was awarded Sweden’s 2018 Olof Palme Prize for “profound humanism and exceptional >>moral courage<<.”
]]>'70s anti-war breaking_points classified_information deception disillusioned economists leaks moral_courage NYT obituaries Pentagon_Papers RAND Richard_Nixon Robert_McNamara scholars secrets tell-alls USMC Vietnam_War WaPo Watergate whistleblowing speak_truth_to_power lying misconduct civil_disobedience military_analystshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4212ae6c3b31/A Newsroom Team That Sees Data in the Air - The New York Times2023-01-18T14:52:48+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/insider/a-newsroom-team-that-sees-data-in-the-air.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Reader%20Center
jerryking>Formed last year, the Weather Data team is harnessing clouds of information to share a more comprehensive forecast with readers.<<
Weather has always been part of The Times’s coverage. Short forecasts have appeared on the front page since 1897.......As the planet continues to warm and wilder weather [i.e. = "global weirding"] becomes more frequent, The Times is expanding its weather reporting to help readers better understand extreme weather events and the threats they pose...........The work of the Weather Data team is a part of The Times’s ongoing effort to broaden the scope of its data journalism. One of the roles of data journalism..... is “to deliver a clear, **reader-oriented** display of quantitative information.” In a rapidly advancing digital age, more information has become available to the public, and journalists at The Times are using that data to clarify complex events through data-powered visual reports......“every parcel in the air is a data point.”.......Sources like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where scientists can model advanced forecasts, are publishing more information.......As a meteorologist and a reporter, Mr. Jones said his role is “to take what scientists are doing and translating it so that it makes sense for the general public.”.......the team plans to broaden its >>data collection<< efforts so that readers can view “>>always-on<<” [i.e. = "on-demand"/"pervasiveness"] interactive tools that capture “a full stable of the weather events most likely to be happening in their region,” similar to the way the wildfire tracker page, which gathers data from land management agencies and satellite imagery from NASA to show the spread or containment of destructive fires, does.
“We are covering the major events that might affect people’s lives,” “We want to be as clear as we can in explaining to our readers when a storm is coming and what may happen to them.”
]]>charts Communicating_&_Connecting data data_collection data_journalism extreme_weather_events global_weirding infographics journalists meteorology NOAA NYT on-demand pervasiveness quantitative reader-friendly reporters visualization weather newsrooms always-onhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9afca5945fb5/Michele McNally, Who Elevated Times Photography, Dies at 662022-03-01T23:38:47+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/business/media/michele-mcnally-dead.html
jerrykingnewsrooms NYT obituaries photography photojournalism women Pulitzer_Prizehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4b2ba19d5cd4/Jane Brody: Here's How Health Advice Changed Since I Joined The Times2022-02-22T19:01:15+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/well/health-advice-diet-smoking.html
jerrykingcolumnists diets exits farewells gender health journalism journalists medical_communication mens'_health mental_health NYT quackery retirement sexuality smoking surgery update_your_priors womenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5e2534085370/Opinion | A Farewell to Readers, With Hope2021-10-28T18:40:39+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/opinion/sunday/nick-kristof-farewell.html
jerrykingfarewells journalists lessons_learned Nicholas_Kristof NYT Oregon politics candidates hope inspiration optimism political_will public_service Second_Acts unevenly_distributedhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0ed2842c043e/Pulitzer-Winning Critic Wesley Morris Captured the Moment2021-07-27T02:05:56+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/insider/wesley-morris-pulitzer.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage
jerryking>memorable<<, revised-to-perfection ending [i.e. = "endgame"] . “He always **reworks** his last graph until it slays,”[i.e.= "well written"]
]]>African-Americans criticism journalists NYT Pulitzer_Prize Wesley_Morris writers blackness carpe_kairos culture cultural_criticism cultural_interpretation incisiveness race revisions self-identification popular_culture facial_hair memorableness endgame writing_wellhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:991169066eb0/Opinion | As the Press Weakens, So Does Democracy2021-07-19T00:34:56+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/18/opinion/media-newspapers-democracy.html
jerryking'90s abuse_of_power celebrities Charles_Blow community constitutions corruption decline democracy engaged_citizenry facts First_Amendment Founding_Fathers journalism journalists local_journalism neighbourhoods newspapers newsrooms print_journalism NYT trust-building unmonitored unwatched free_press democratic_backsliding watchdogs lyinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8406cdd79fd9/Nikole Hannah-Jones Will Join Howard University's Faculty2021-07-06T19:34:31+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/06/business/nikole-hannah-jones-howard-university.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage
jerryking1619 appointments backlash Colleges_&_Universities HBCUs NYT Howardhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:33b8c59d75f7/Nikole Hannah-Jones Denied Tenure at University of North Carolina2021-05-20T04:03:52+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/business/media/nikole-hannah-jones-unc.html?surface=most-popular&fellback=false&req_id=199407215&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-uh-nclicks-alpha-01&variant=1_bandit-all-surfaces-uh-nclicks-alpha-01&pool=pool/91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1&imp_id=465979639&action=click&module=Popular%20in%20The%20Times&pgtype=Homepage
jerryking1619 African-Americans appointments backlash boards_&_directors_&_governance Colleges_&_Universities history journalism journalists NYT writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b79d75f29775/What news publishers can learn from Netflix | Financial Times2021-03-19T03:21:15+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/162a4870-b97a-4376-8ce3-ca42efadba1d
jerrykingadvertising advice business_models core_businesses digital_media FT journalism Netflix newspapers newsrooms newsstand_circulation NYT paywalls perishables playbooks pricing print_journalism publishing Reed_Hastings subscriptions websites WaPo WSJhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b1cf5c5bced9/New York Times subscriptions boom as election and pandemic fuel readership2021-02-04T23:50:07+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/47ce6180-bcc5-4824-aadd-6e154f6c5a40
jerrykingCOVID-19 digital_media Donald_Trump newspapers NYT subscriptions booming Campaign_2020 print_journalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5baa2edcc0ef/Opinion | The 1619 Chronicles - The New York Times2020-10-13T08:12:52+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/nyt-1619-project-criticisms.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
jerryking1619 African-Americans ambitions Bret_Stephens history journalism NYT overreach racehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:02c33771bbab/New York Times names trusted insider Meredith Kopit Levien as chief2020-07-23T01:26:38+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/0f646a78-609b-474b-a881-d013d5844ae1
jerryking>under pressure<<”, she would “continue to invest in and defend the high-quality, independent journalism on which our democracy depends”.
When Mr Thompson took the helm of the publisher, like many other traditional news groups, it was struggling with declining circulation, advertising and still experimenting with business models for the digital age.
More than any other global news publisher, the New York Times sought to invest heavily in journalism, backed by the rapid expansion of its digital subscriber base, particularly following the election of Donald Trump.
The New York Times now has more than 6m paying readers, a base that is looked at with envy by the rest of the US industry. In the first three months of 2020 alone it added around 600,000 subscriptions, or more than the digital subscriber base of both the LA Times and Boston Globe combined. ]]>newspapers appointments CEOs digital_media insiders NYT women succession under_pressurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:91cd5c5e01d2/Why We’re Capitalizing Black - The New York Times2020-07-06T15:22:55+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Reader%20Center
jerrykingAfrican-Americans ancestry cultural_identity NYT race racial_self-respect W.E.B._Du_Bois blackness ADOS group_identity languageshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5cc0fe92f388/NYT Programs – Build Heathy Habits With Well2020-03-09T01:41:23+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/programs/healthy-habits-challenge?algo=identity&fellback=false&imp_id=195170368&imp_id=496667122&action=click&module=Smarter%20Living&pgtype=Homepage&redirect=true
jerrykingchallenges daily habits NYThttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0e4a2d4dbebc/Public Enemy No. 1 | Brown Alumni Magazine2019-09-16T19:23:56+00:00
https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2019-07-08/public-enemy-no-1
jerrykingNYT journalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:10fe8ad6f2c5/Leslie H. Gelb, 82, Former Diplomat and New York Times Journalist, Dies - The New York Times2019-09-01T23:00:37+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/us/leslie-gelb-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries
jerrykingdiplomacy journalists NYT obituarieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:38eaa1fc3e31/How the 1619 Project Came Together2019-08-20T22:50:52+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/18/reader-center/1619-project-slavery-jamestown.html?rref=collection%2Fseriescollection%2Ftimes-insider
jerrykingAfrican-Americans anniversaries focus history howto journalism legacies newspapers NYT photography slavery storytelling commemoration 1619 imperfections descendantshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7ecbd23a33c6/How 5 Data Dynamos Do Their Jobs2019-06-14T23:58:29+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/reader-center/data-reporting-spreadsheets.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Freader-center
jerryking>specialized schools<< once looked more like the rest of the city school system, which is mostly black and Hispanic.
With my colleague K.K. Rebecca Lai from The Times’s graphics department, I started to dig into a huge spreadsheet that listed the racial breakdown of each of the specialized schools dating to the mid-1970s.
analyzed changes in the city’s immigration patterns to better understand why some immigrant groups were overrepresented at the schools and others were underrepresented. We mapped out where the city’s accelerated academic programs are, and found that mostly black and Hispanic neighborhoods have lost them. And we tracked the rise of the local test preparation industry, which has exploded in part to meet the demand of parents eager to prepare their children for the specialized schools’ entrance exam.
To put a human face to the data points we gathered, I collected yearbooks from black and Hispanic alumni and spent hours on the phone with them, listening to their recollections of the schools in the 1970s through the 1990s. The final result was a data-driven article that combined Rebecca’s remarkable graphics, yearbook photos, and alumni reflections.
(4) Reed Abelson, Health and Science reporter
the most compelling stories take powerful anecdotes about patients and pair them with eye-opening data.....Being comfortable with data and spreadsheets allows me to ask better questions about researchers’ studies. Spreadsheets also provide a way of organizing sources, articles and research, as well as creating a >>timeline<< of events. By putting information in a spreadsheet, you can quickly access it, and share it with other reporters.
(5) Maggie Astor, Politics reporter
a political reporter dealing with more than 20 presidential candidates, she uses spreadsheets to track polling, fund-raising, policy positions and so much more. Without them, there’s just no way she could stay on top of such a huge field......The climate reporter Lisa Friedman and she used another spreadsheet to track the candidates’ positions on several climate policies.
]]>311 behind-the-scenes data datasets data_journalism data_scientists FOIA groundbreaking hidden massive_data_sets Communicating_&_Connecting 5_W’s information_overload information_sources mapping New_York_City open_data organizing_data self-organization systematic_approaches spreadsheets storytelling timelines tools journalism NYT reporters location_data fundraising polling policy_positions Stuyvesant_High specialized_programs demand_spikeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c0839009fe67/With the iPhone Sputtering, Apple Bets Its Future on TV and News2019-03-25T16:08:34+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-the-iphone-sputtering-apple-bets-its-future-on-tv-and-news-11553437018?mod=hp_lead_pos8
jerryking>foreshadowed<< Apple’s services future when he started iTunes in 2001, offering categories from competing major labels to make the first successful digital-music store, with songs available for 99 cents.
For Mr. Cook’s monthly services meetings, the company monitors of apps that benefit and threaten Apple. There is a "release radar" for Cook to track apps that are expected to sell well and other metrics for the apps that have challenged Apple’s business, including iTunes sales decreases compared with Apple Music subscription growth.]]>App_Store Apple Apple_IDs Apple_Music big_bets CEOs cloud_computing Disney iCloud iPhone iTunes mobile_applications Netflix news NYT original_content pivots platforms services Spotify storage streaming subscriptions television Tim_Cook WaPo WeChat magazines smartphones multiplatforms Apple_TV foreshadowing Steve_Jobshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5e4f44755321/Think Like a Libel Lawyer2019-03-10T12:05:28+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/opinion/sunday/think-like-a-libel-lawyer.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
jerryking>vet<< stories before publication.
Think of me as a story’s first and worst reader: >>doubtful<<, questioning, blind to subtlety, >>skeptical<< of the facts, regularly prodding editors and reporters to do something more or different. And if I have done my job well, many of the subjects of those same stories will be unhappy as well, but for all the reasons we want them to be: We got it right.
The basic idea of libel law is simple. A publisher can get sued for making a factual statement that proves to be false and hurts a person’s reputation.......I am all about the villains in many pieces — the doctor who botched the surgery, the insurance company that shafted its customers, the professor who hit on the student, the greedy industrialist who ground up workers to make a fortune. I try to look for the counternarrative that they could (and their lawyers will) build from the same set of facts. It’s a counterintuitive form of reading. It’s looking for the innocent explanation or the possibility that what appears to all the rest of the world to be nefarious may in fact just be a mistake made in >>good faith<<. It’s a tricky skill to take into the real world [i.e. = "a hacker's mindset"]....for a libel lawyer, a little sympathy for the villain is almost an occupational requirement. And maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea for all of us in the tribalized “pick your side and stay on it” era [i.e. = narrative shopping"] we are living in......Libel lawyers don’t serve as the fairness police. If anything, they are more like fact cops. Coverage can be wildly unfair and still be true. .....Over the past half-decade, The Times and others had reoriented themselves to reader-centered journalism. The shift in attitude has been like opening a window after a long winter. Journalism should be done as if the readers mattered.
But in a divided America there was a risk, too — the risk that we would set our compass by what people wanted rather than giving them the journalism they needed.......It was discouraging that so many people apparently believed that the time-honored journalistic act of telling a story straight had become a problem and that The Times needed instead to take sides and coach readers on what to think.[i.e. = "think for yourself"]
Journalism is hard when people feel the failure to take sides is in and of itself a surrender....The great risk we face comes not in giving them (the alt-right) voice but in taking their worst instincts and making them our own.
The First Amendment gives a lot of protection to even nasty speakers.....we write about people in the news, not just the people we agree with.....that is how the First Amendment works — thanks to our “profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide open,......Speakers are allowed to be provocative, colorful, contradictory and wrong.
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Libel is the term used for defamation of a person through a permanent form of communication, mostly the >>written word<< - as opposed to slander, which is defamation through a more transient form of communication, usually speech.]]>counternarratives counterintuitive dark_side facts First_Amendment journalism lawyers libel NYT skepticism open_mind villains general_counsels doubt free_press think_for_yourself fact-checking defamation slander hacker_mindsets vetting good_faith narrative_shopping written_word libel_lawyershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:165a397fb6c2/Meet Amanda Cox, Who Brings Life to Data on Our Pages2019-03-03T00:11:20+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/reader-center/data-visualization-editor-amanda-cox.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Reader%20Center
jerrykingcharts Communicating_&_Connecting data data_journalism infographics NYT quantitative visualization reader-friendlyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f4304491a3f2/The Woman Behind the New York Times’ High-Risk, High-Reward Business Strategy - WSJ2018-08-16T02:55:30+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-woman-behind-the-new-york-times-high-risk-high-reward-business-strategy-1534325400?mod=hp_lista_pos4
jerryking>ad revenue<< decline in the March quarter to the volatility of these strategic deals. A 7.5% decline in digital- >>ad revenue<< in the second quarter was driven by weakness in the unit that does custom ad deals with marketers, as well as a smaller web audience.
“It all takes time and thought and work and that makes for a lumpier business,” Ms. Levien said in an interview. She added, “When we sign a big deal, it’s not going to see the light of day for sometimes three or six months.”
It’s worth it, she said, because the old ad business—which she describes as selling rectangles of ad space in the paper or on the website—“is just falling away.”......In 2017, the Times’ revenue grew 7.7%, powered by a run of digital subscription sales tied largely to interest in politics and the Trump era. Digital-ad growth was 14%, a strong performance in an industry where AlphabetInc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. are snatching a large share of ad dollars, though it wasn’t enough to offset weakness in print that resulted in a nearly 4% contraction in overall ad revenue.
Most major news publishers, including The Wall Street Journal, have experimented with new business models and novel sponsorship arrangements as the print business has been battered. Several papers including the Journal have “branded content” [i.e. = "sponsored content"] units separate from the newsroom, for example, that specialize in producing advertising material that is meant to have the feel of journalism. Sponsored online sections and conferences are more common throughout the industry. The Journal has also hosted events with marketers attended by journalists and ad executives from parent-company Dow Jones.
The Times has been among the most aggressive outlets at pitching nontraditional ad deals, advertising executives said.......The Samsung 360 deal “caused controversy in the newsroom, and I get that,” he said, adding that he didn’t force anyone to create stories with Samsung devices and “some found it really cool.”
Ms. Levien has become a fixture on the Madison Avenue scene, schmoozing at the industry’s major events and private gatherings. She hosts exclusive and eclectic dinners with chief marketing officers and editorial talent like Ms. Dowd.
“If you look at how crowded and noisy this market is, visibility matters. She’s in the room when the right conversations are happening,” said Wenda Harris Millard, vice chairman of ad and media consultancy MediaLink.
Ms. Levien got her start in the ad industry a few years after college, eventually landing at a digital marketing agency in New York. After publishing posts at Atlantic Media and Forbes, she joined the Times in 2013 as head of advertising. At the time, the seemingly inexorable decline of print advertising wasn’t the paper’s only problem; digital-ad revenue was dropping, too.
She began hiring creative talent to build T Brand Studio, an in-house Times digital agency that made it possible for the Times to sell custom ad deals, from branded content to virtual-reality video content. Ms. Levien quickly rose to chief revenue officer......Beth Brady, chief marketing officer of Principal Financial Group, a financial-services and insurance company, began discussing deals with Ms. Levien last year that could put the Principal brand and products on the radar of younger consumers. They’re now working on a partnership that could involve a sponsored video or podcast series reflecting Principal’s expertise on people’s financial behavior.
“She showed up at a time when I was trying to figure out what to do and offered a solution,” said Ms. Brady.]]>NYT partnerships women digital_media digital_strategies publishing high-risk newspapers high-reward advertising advertising_agencies dealmakers photojournalism sponsored_content Samsung cameras non-traditional ad_revenuehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:93f1605779a0/9 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Times Subscription - The New York Times2018-05-09T11:18:27+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/nytnow/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-new-york-times-subscription.html
jerrykingreading productivity NYThttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:bd3307ae1a67/Tapping Technology to Advance the Future of Journalism - The New York Times2018-01-04T14:36:29+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/technology/personaltech/technology-future-journalism.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbusiness
jerrykingdigital_media journalists journalism NYThttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:29d87529ab02/After 20 Years of Financial Turmoil, a Columnist’s Last Shot - The New York Times2017-11-11T21:26:50+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/business/after-20-years-of-financial-turmoil-a-columnists-last-shot.html
jerrykingfinancial_communications farewells NYT women Wall_Street seismic_shifts LTCM bubbles scandals SOX truth-telling boards_&_directors_&_governance retrospectiveshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0afe914494f0/Sweethome Reviews | A New York Times Company2017-06-28T11:49:32+00:00
http://thesweethome.com/
jerrykingNYT best_of gear gadgets discernmenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b10397be3d14/We Taste-Tested 10 Hot Dogs. Here Are the Best. - The New York Times2017-06-28T02:38:09+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/dining/best-hot-dogs-taste-test.html?mabReward=TS2&recp=0
jerrykingcured_and_smoked sausages best_of New_York_City NYThttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:257663d28d81/Washington Post, Breaking News, Is Also Breaking New Ground - The New York Times2017-05-20T15:18:21+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/business/washington-post-digital-news.html?ref=business&_r=0
jerryking>lowest common denominator<< of exploding watermelons and stupid pet tricks.
“Investigative reporting is absolutely critical to our business model,” Mr. Baron told me. “**We add value**. We tell people what they didn’t already know. We hold government and powerful people and institutions accountable.[i.e. =">>punching up<<"] This cannot happen without financial support. We’re at the point where the public realizes that and is willing to step up and support that work by buying subscriptions.”.........Mr. Huber noted that given the winner-take-all nature of the internet, the sources of scoops are gravitating toward just a few news outlets led by The Times and The Post. Sources (and people who want to “leak”) go to a publication with the most impact [i.e. = "media power"] ; >>opinion makers<< and influencers seek the publication with the most sources and scoops — hence the “network effect” so coveted in technology circles, and one well understood by Mr. Bezos.
When I asked Mr. Baron to name one thing that has driven the turnaround, his immediate answer was Mr. Bezos — and not because of his vast fortune.
“The most fundamental thing Jeff did was to change our strategy entirely,” Mr. Baron said. “We were a news organization that focused on the Washington region, so our vision was constrained. Jeff said from the start that wasn’t the right strategy. Our industry had suffered due to the internet, but the internet also brought gifts, and we should recognize that. It made distribution free, which gave us the opportunity to be a national and even international news organization, and we should recognize and take advantage of that.”.....“Today you have to be great at everything,” Mr. Hartman said. “You have to be great at technology. You have to be great at monetization. But one thing I think we’re proving is that if you are, great journalism can be profitable.”]]>journalism investigative_journalism WaPo scoops winner-take-all network_effects sources leaks digital_strategies NYT WSJ Jeff_Bezos subscriptions paywalls informants high-quality Internet digital_media opinion_makers lowest_common_denominator media_power punching_up value_addedhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:bf31c1ae8cbe/Obit doc examines the art of the obituary at The New York Times - The Globe and Mail2017-04-03T04:27:02+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/obit-doc-examines-the-art-of-the-obituary-at-the-new-york-times/article34489175/
jerrykingNYT obituaries documentarieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e478b3767a5b/More Wretched News for Newspapers as Advertising Woes Drive Anxiety - The New York Times2016-10-29T17:28:58+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/business/media/buyouts-wall-street-journal-bad-news-for-newspapers.html?_r=0
jerrykingnewspapers advertising layoffs WSJ NYT digital_media cost-cutting subscriptions print_journalism ad_revenue lifeblood revenue_erosionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7b172081d44c/Fascination and Fear: Covering the Black Panthers2016-10-19T16:57:42+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/us/black-panthers-50-years.html?mabReward=A4
jerryking> “Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon." by Jane Rhodes<<
“At the same time the newspaper was dubious and skeptical of them, it also gave them a tremendous amount of coverage,” said Jane Rhodes, a professor of African-American studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of “Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon.”
“The media, like most of white America, was deeply frightened by their aggressive and assertive style of protest,” Professor Rhodes said. “And they were offended by it.”
When Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party, their first goal was to >>confront<< what they saw as an epidemic of police brutality. They took to the streets with rifles, standing guard over policemen on patrol. The California Assembly responded quickly, proposing a law to ban the open carrying of firearms.....Looking at contemporary news coverage, Professor Rhodes said progress has been made when it comes to covering race and activism. “I see organizations like The Times making a much more sustained effort at deeper coverage,” she said. But articles still tend to emphasize the conflict between the police and protesters, she said, without addressing the core principles guiding social movements such as Black Lives Matter: greater investment in public education, community control of law enforcement and economic justice.]]>Black_Panthers African-Americans '60s FBI public_opinion NYT disinformation biases books iconic Black_Power social_movements Black_Lives_Matter activism police_abuse police_brutality community_activism community_organizing economic_justice fear protest_movements race newspapers open-carry challenge_protest_resistance confrontationshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1213ef6acb64/How The New York Times lost the internet, and how it plans to win it back - Vox2016-05-30T17:01:12+00:00
http://www.vox.com/2014/5/16/5723096/times-digital-report
jerryking>audience<< dwarfs its print **subscriber base**, but the editorial >>workflow<< is built around Page One and the newspaper.
The report urges a "digital first" strategy and emphasizes that this means more than literally putting a story on the internet before it appears in a print newspaper. Digital first is a state of mind in which the job of the newsroom is to deliver an excellent >>digital product<< [i.e. = "data product"], which a relatively small team would then repackage as a daily print product. Today it's largely the reverse. Deadlines are structured around the pace of print, incentives are structured around Page One, and then teams of producers build a website out of what's really a print >>workflow<<.]]>newspapers digital_media NYT disruption perspectives mindsets digital_strategies data_products mobile-first digital-first workflow audiences customer_base newsrooms agenda-setting editorial_power digital_productshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f9825f7d4daf/The Times Announces a Fellowship Named for David Carr - The New York Times2015-09-14T11:50:11+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/business/media/the-times-announces-a-fellowship-named-for-david-carr.html?ref=business
jerrykingDavid_Carr NYT scholarships fellowshipshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3fa89afc2898/Quentin Hardy - Google+2015-04-29T11:22:22+00:00
https://plus.google.com/103965582964444715563/posts
jerrykingQuentin_Hardy journalists NYT datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:52e08f2cdc0a/David Carr, a Times Reporter, Is Eulogized - NYTimes.com2015-02-18T15:16:41+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/nyregion/david-carr-times-reporter-funeral.html?ref=business&_r=0
jerrykingDavid_Carr obituaries tributes NYT journalistshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1c470385ffd1/‘From one hack to another’: Remembering David Carr - The Globe and Mail2015-02-16T00:12:37+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/from-one-hack-to-another-remembering-david-carr/article22993948/
jerrykingreflections David_Carr digital_media tributes obituaries NYT second_chances redemption journalistshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:914d7aa51d36/David Carr, journalist, 1956-2015 - FT.com2015-02-14T02:55:32+00:00
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/74b3f82e-b394-11e4-a45f-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3RgTffqru
jerrykingDavid_Carr obituaries NYT journalistshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d419272a7516/David Carr knew we all make mistakes – and that we all deserve a second chance - The Globe and Mail2015-02-14T02:48:37+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/david-carr-knew-we-all-make-mistakes-and-that-we-all-deserve-a-second-chance/article22998623/
jerrykingDavid_Carr tributes NYT redemption second_chanceshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:18210382f68d/The Quotable David Carr - NYTimes.com2015-02-13T13:39:20+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/business/media/david-carr-excerpts.html?_r=0
jerrykingquotes David_Carr NYT tributes journalistshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8935e3809c8b/David Carr, a Journalist at the Center of the Sweet Spot - NYTimes.com2015-02-13T12:51:21+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/business/media/david-carr-a-journalist-at-the-center-of-the-sweet-spot.html?_r=0
jerryking>What else?<<” was the question that would punctuate every conversation with him. What were you working on? What did you think of this or that political event, show-business caper or piece of office gossip? How was your family? What were you thinking? This was sincere, friendly curiosity, the expression of a naturally gregarious temperament. But it was also the operation of a tireless >>journalistic instinct<<. David was always hungry for stories. He was a collector of personalities and anecdotes, a shrewd and compassionate judge of character. A warrior for the truth.]]>David_Carr journalists journalism tributes obituaries digital_media NYT newspapers curiosity questions business_acumen anecdotal memoirs question-askers journalistic_instincts what_else?https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4f6ddf5f9c65/David Carr, Times Critic and Champion of Media, Dies at 58 - NYTimes.com2015-02-13T05:02:13+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/business/media/david-carr-media-equation-columnist-for-the-times-is-dead-at-58.html?_r=0
jerrykingDavid_Carr NYT digital_media writers journalists obituarieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1179db00e74c/New York Times media columnist David Carr dead at 58 - The Globe and Mail2015-02-13T04:48:23+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/new-york-times-media-columnist-david-carr-dead-at-58/article22981793/
jerrykingDavid_Carr obituaries digital_media NYThttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fd6009281b5a/We must never censor ourselves for fear of offending the faithful - The Globe and Mail2015-01-19T13:13:18+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/media-walk-a-minefield-of-the-miffedbut-self-censorship-is-a-slow-suicide/article22497817/?ord=1
jerrykingself-censorship Charlie_Hebdo identity_politics religion Elizabeth_Renzetti free_speech hard_choices infantilization one-size-fits-all overly_monolithic one-dimensional newspapers Muslims NYT belief_systemshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c29d2e26e02c/David Carr: All the views he's fit to print - The Globe and Mail2014-12-13T07:28:04+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/careers-leadership/media-man-rose-from-second-chance-to-rock-star-from-times-newsroom/article22071737/
jerrykingDavid_Carr digital_media profile NYT books courtesies addictions print_journalism memoirshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:029ee1bc5389/Brands not just a new wrapper for institutions2014-09-11T10:37:02+00:00
http://www.alumni.westernu.ca/alumni-gazette/fall-2014/brands-not-just-a-new-wrapper.html
jerrykingColleges_&_Universities Harvard brands branding KSG Michael_Ignatieff symbiosis relationships unidirectional bidirectional star_power identity matryoshka_dolls platforms journalists professors columnists misunderstandings NYT Paul_Wells personal_branding writers disaggregation brand_architecture brand_attributeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3eb95ff1987f/Dear Jill: From One Pushy Media Dame to Another2014-05-20T18:32:11+00:00
http://recode.net/2014/05/18/dear-jill-from-one-pushy-media-dame-to-another/
jerrykingdiscrimination Jill_Abramson NYT Kara_Swisher firings digital_media womenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1238ea28296f/After Firing From Times, Jill Abramson Talks About Resilience - NYTimes.com2014-05-19T20:08:40+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/business/media/after-firing-from-times-jill-abramson-talks-about-resilience.html
jerrykingresilience NYT bouncing_back firingshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:461e0c97929d/NYTimes Article Limit Remover for Greasemonkey2013-04-01T14:15:24+00:00
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/138390
jerrykingNYT paywallshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:17b67681a950/Anthony Lewis, Who Transformed Coverage of the Supreme Court, Dies at 85 - NYTimes.com2013-03-25T22:16:19+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/us/anthony-lewis-pulitzer-prize-winning-columnist-dies-at-85.html?hp&pagewanted=all
jerrykingobituaries NYT U.S._Supreme_Court journalists books editorials writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8c2a7d4e4a92/New York Times Closes URL Paywall Loophole -- Daily Intelligencer2013-02-26T14:13:21+00:00
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/02/new-york-times-closes-url-paywall-loophole.html
jerrykingpaywalls NYThttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:639fcda762cc/Chinese Hackers Target U.S. Media - WSJ.com2013-02-03T07:47:26+00:00
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323926104578276202952260718.html
jerrykingChinese hackers NYT WSJ FBI cyber_securityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0c56f3f0b6fe/Hacking with Chinese Characteristics : The New Yorker2013-02-01T05:43:33+00:00
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2013/01/hacking-with-chinese-characteristics.html
jerrykingChina NYT hackers cyber_securityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3212e97b99c4/Arthur O. Sulzberger, Publisher Who Transformed Times, Dies at 86 - NYTimes.com2012-10-02T17:55:41+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/nyregion/arthur-o-sulzberger-publisher-who-transformed-times-dies-at-86.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all
jerrykingNYT obituaries newspapershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:00af71aae4df/British Guiana Claims2012-08-05T01:10:58+00:00
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DkB-O7-4um8rp7g-lmBY5xDzp_kd59P2nctwr_o8L10/edit
jerrykingNYT Guyana history bordershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:46b1ef1c8e4e/Anthony Shadid, a New York Times Reporter, Dies in Syria - NYTimes.com2012-02-21T15:53:20+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html?pagewanted=all
jerrykingobituaries journalists Middle_East newspapers NYThttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ef2b10deeb96/New York Times Paywall Workaround2011-04-02T07:04:10+00:00
http://vannevar.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-york-times-paywall-workaround.html
jerrykingpay_walls NYT workaroundshttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:59e2a51c6699/How to bypass the New York Times paywall - Techvibes.com2011-03-22T15:36:04+00:00
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/how-to-bypass-the-new-york-times-paywall-2011-03-17
jerrykingNYT pay_walls breakthroughs howtohttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:27eaea4ad0f2/Paying for The Times at SXSW - NYTimes.com2011-03-22T10:33:46+00:00
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/paying-for-the-times-at-sxsw/
jerrykingNYT pay_walls David_Carrhttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fe90131ef4ee/N.Y. Times unveils pay wall: Canada first - The Globe and Mail2011-03-19T13:27:39+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/ny-times-unveils-pay-wall-canada-first/article1945653/singlepage/#articlecontent
jerrykingnewspapers NYT pay_walls mediahttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:15acfb4ba09f/Pursuing Big Ideas2009-04-22T05:40:37+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/business/smallbusiness/23sbizbox.html?ref=smallbusiness
jerrykingideas inspiration NYT innovation conferences TED ideacity creative_renewalhttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8831a6296ef2/Ask About the Art of Conversation in N.Y. - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com2009-02-16T03:53:14+00:00
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/ask-about-the-art-of-conversation-in-new-york/?ref=nyregion
jerrykingNYT Communicating_&_Connecting conversationshttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a144dfdee780/The Art of Conversation - Catherine Blyth - Penguin Group (USA)2009-02-16T03:51:49+00:00
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781592404193,00.html
jerrykingbooks NYT Communicating_&_Connecting conversations ice-breakershttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ba240277bf5b/