Five minutes with Times Extra
/ Dec. 4, 2008 / 2:22 p.m.
Here’s a five-minute (well, 4:30) video introduction to Times Extra at The New York Times, which launched today and which Zach wrote about earlier today.
- The abstruse vocabulary test NYT readers can’t pass
- Our coverage of the Chicago newspaper industry meeting
- How ambient data can make news sites user-friendly
- One newspaper’s plan to charge big bucks for online
- Dan Froomkin says playing it safe is killing newspapers
- Two new ways to get the Lab: Facebook, Kindle
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- More updates...
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Thanks for the useful run-through, Josh. Encountered this interesting twist this morning: The BOSTON GLOBE link from Times Select on the Kabul story goes to this page on the Globe site with the same NYT story by Kirk Semple: http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2008/12/07/us_to_focus_on_kabul_area_in_new_defense_strategy/. Ah, the challenges of media consolidation.