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    Articles tagged crossword puzzles (7)

    Sarah ScireSeptember 6, 2023
    The New York Times finds a match with the word game Connections
    “Come for the news, stay for the games.”
    Lyz LenzAugust 10, 2022
    Doing a little word puzzle as the world burns
    “I started playing word games as a way to stop reading the news first thing in the morning.”
    Luke WinkieAugust 10, 2022
    “Puzzles pair well with reading the news”: Why news outlets are getting into games (again)
    “Some subscribers would rather game than sift through the wreckage. Can you blame them?”
    Louis AnslowFebruary 22, 2022
    A time before Wordle: Newspapers used to hate word puzzles
    “They get nothing out of it except a primitive sort of mental exercise.”
    Sarah ScireMarch 12, 2021
    The New Yorker leans into crossword puzzles online and, now, in print
    “If you’re looking at a metric like unique visitors, the audience for the crossword is not colossal. But if you’re looking at people who subscribe, or people who read multiple articles a month, those are groups that really value our crossword.”
    John TempleJune 2, 2017
    Solving the crossword puzzle: Rebuilding a print habit on digital devices
    “Sometimes, I’ve learned, you have to take opportunity where you least expect it. And in the end that’s what happened to us.”
    Rose EvelethJanuary 20, 2016
    From Nieman Reports: How news outlets are harnessing the power of video games for journalism
    As digital technology allows more and more of our lives as consumers to be framed as play, scoring points or competing with others, companies of all kinds have been incorporating games into their strategies.
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