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Articles tagged New York Times innovation report (12)

A stern self-analysis: “We inflate our importance. We can’t confess to weaknesses and certainly can’t show them. We don’t surprise often enough. We try too little that is really new. We set the wrong priorities.”
“Thanks for reading, and for putting up with me, for five years. I’m pretty sure this journalism thing is going to work itself out.”
Since its launch in 2011, The Guardian has consistently made changes to its in-house analytics tool, Ophan.
“In 2007, as digital people, we were expected to be 100 percent deferent to all traditional processes. We weren’t to bother reporters or encourage them to operate differently at all, because what they were doing was the very core of our journalism.”
“I think most media companies large and small have embraced change. So it’s not as if we’re all starting in the smoke-filled press room.” Justin Ellis
Its new site JSTOR Daily highlights interesting research and offers background and context on current events.
“We’re always navigating information and culture by way of these mechanisms, and every mechanism has a built in notion of what it’s trying to accomplish.”
Featuring more than 300 pieces of archival content, the Journal’s anniversary package is using its anniversary to allow readers to dip into its archive.
“Suddenly, the CMS, an often derided but necessary tool of modern journalism, is cool.”