The Times doesn’t want to be “so serious all the time that you end up being just a dreadful bore at the dinner party, you know? Nobody wants that, either. We want to be entertaining as well, we want to have some fun. It doesn’t have to all be heavy and brooding.”
In Belgium, newspaper publishers collaborate to survey reader behaviors based on topics and themes. nie.mn/14euBdD 
Articles tagged The New York Times (18)
May 6, 2013
April 9, 2013
The PolitiFact founder, headed to a professorship at Duke, reflects on the fact-checking boom and talks about preparing the next generation of journalists.
March 22, 2013
Goodbye The Local East Village — hello Bedford + Bowery.
February 5, 2013
How an algorithm could change your newsroom’s social publishing strategy.
July 11, 2012
Linda Greenhouse says journalists need to watch out for regression to a phony mean.
June 27, 2012
The New York Times, backing away from The Local, says it doesn’t make sense to pay its staff to be in the hyperlocal business.
Journalists should always be hacking, trying to tell stories in surprising new ways.
May 8, 2012
Huh’s new news startup Circa, set to launch this summer, aims to re-imagine news consumption for a meme-friendly time.
April 25, 2012
The Paris-based startup already has deals with lots of international newspapers to translate their stories into English. Now they’re starting to find those translations a (hopefully profitable) home.
The Huffington Post and Politico join the ranks of online-only (or online-mostly) Pulitzer winners.
April 12, 2012
Wharton business school professor Michael Useem has a checklist for making change work in an organization.
The Center for Investigative Reporting project aims to grow audiences and revenue by assembling the work of many different news organizations, large and small.
December 21, 2011
Paywalls may become more popular in 2012; that doesn’t mean they’ll be enough to save a flailing industry.
November 15, 2011
With Coke’s “Arctic Home” campaign, the paper finds a new way to reach an increasingly distributed audience.
October 27, 2011
Auntie Beeb’s social media editor: “We want to be tweeting with value.”
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