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Articles tagged crosswords (10)

Shafik QuoraisheeJanuary 17, 2024

How The New York Times is building experimental handwriting recognition for its crosswords app

“Aside from handwriting, there’s also potential for interactive features like ‘scribble-to-erase’ detection, in-app self-training mechanisms, and a whole host of other doors that on-device ML in the Games app can open.”

Sarah ScireJanuary 11, 2022

The New York Times debuts a fellowship for crossword constructors

NYT Games editorial director Everdeen Mason on building a more diverse set of puzzle constructors and an “ecosystem” for solvers. “I don’t want people to just come in and play a game and leave.”

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.”

Sarah ScireFebruary 14, 2020

News organizations just want to get readers hooked, whether their habit’s news, podcasts, or puzzles

“Habit is something that has always been in our DNA, but we haven’t called it that.”

Ken DoctorFebruary 22, 2019

Newsonomics: Can The New York Times avoid a Trump Slump and sign up 10 million paying subscribers?

And what lessons can the rest of the industry draw from the Times’ outsized success?

Joshua BentonNovember 1, 2018

The New York Times is on pace to earn more than $600 million in digital this year, halfway to its ambitious goal

The paywall, now more than seven years old, still has room to grow.

Meena Lee and Sarah GuineeApril 17, 2018

The New York Times has signed up a lot of subscribers. Here’s how it plans to keep them.

“My team believes that by investing in the subscribers we have and making the subscription experience better and better, we’ll be able to help all parts of the subscription business.”

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.”

November 18, 2009

The once-defunct New York Sun is slowly rising

March 20, 2009

Arthur Sulzberger & Walter Isaacson on making money online — in 1995