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The Times’ algorithmic recommendations team on responding to reader feedback, newsroom concerns, and technical hurdles.
El Toque’s informal exchange rate is used by taxi drivers, restaurateurs, and small businesses across the island. It’s also grown the news site’s traffic tenfold.
It’s the first major redesign since the app launched in 2008.
“The idea is matching on the things that you enjoy.”
“If you’re doing it, do it properly. Don’t just add a few widgets, or overlay products and embeds, and call yourself accessible.”
The news aggregator app has focused on puzzles and games that are “more welcoming to newcomers.”
Plus: The “labor” of avoiding news, a study of disagreements between journalists and their bosses about objectivity, and the effects of Trump’s criticisms of Fox News.
“Come for the news, stay for the games.”