All entries tagged: Bill Keller
SpeakerText wants to free all your words from the prison of your videos
There’s a school of thought that says video is the future of information, that rich media is the endpoint of the evolution of text. I don’t know that I buy that, since text still has so many advantages over video: its scannability, its searchability, how much easier it usually is to create and polish. But [...]
NYT’s Keller: “What you can do with less, is less”
When I was in San Francisco for ONA, a kind reader offered a blunt critique of my reporting: “You know, every time The New York Times sneezes, it isn’t news.” He’s right, and yet, here’s another post in which the Gray Lady clears her nose: Bill Keller, the Times’ executive editor who’s becoming a regular [...]
New York Times, still uncertain on charging, sets seven digital priorities
While the New York Times newsroom deals with another round of job cuts, one area of the newspaper is actually growing. Fourteen jobs are currently open at the Times website, most of them for software developers and engineers.
On Thursday, the digital staff gathered for an “all hands” meeting at TheTimesCenter to hear updates on various [...]
Bill Keller trying to read the Times “mostly in digital forms”
As he absorbs more responsibility for the digital operations of The New York Times, executive editor Bill Keller is trying something that anthropologists would call participant observation: For three weeks, he’s been limiting his exposure to the print edition and consuming the Times in its various digital forms, “trying to better understand the joys and [...]
The New York Times navigates standards in a new age
After 44 years at The New York Times, most recently as the assistant managing editor in charge of journalistic standards, Craig Whitney bid farewell to the newsroom this week. The position of standards editor was created in the aftermath of Jayson Blair but has come to address issues that were both hard to foresee in [...]
Is transparency the new objectivity? 2 visions of journos on social media
Nothing brings home the clash of cultures between “new” and “old” media like the debates over social-media policies at mainstream publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post. Earlier this year, the Times was in the spotlight for its attempt to develop a policy on Twitter in the wake of some indiscreet twittering [...]
A bet on the next news ecosystem: NYT plans modest cuts to lucrative Escapes section & Sunday magazine
We don’t, as a pretty strict rule, cover newsroom layoffs because, well, you know where to find that stuff, and we try to focus on the future. But as newspapers retrench, the jobs and areas of coverage they choose to cut sometimes speak to the next ecosystem of news that’s slowly developing. Yesterday The New [...]
