New York Times

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 11:52am on Friday, March 19th, 2010

New York Times Shuffles Political Team

Politico reported on March 18, 2010:

"With chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney heading off to run the Los Angeles bureau, the New York Times is taking the opportunity to switch things up on the politics desk.

But instead of one reporter filling Nagourney’s shoes, executive editor announced today that there will be a “politics triumvirate” in the role, according to a memo obtained by Politico.

Politico reported last week that Nagourney's move could impact reporters Jeff Zeleny, Matt Bai, and Jim Rutenberg, and indeed, they’ll each take on new duties."

The full story:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0310/NYT_changes_politics_team_new_roles_for_Zeleny_Bai_Rutenberg.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 11:43am on Friday, March 19th, 2010

Old and New Media Appear to Be Getting Along Fine

The New York Times reported on March 18, 2010:

"It was not that long ago when Madison Avenue believed that Web video — also known as webisodes, online video and Web series — would replace television, or at least put a big dent into the ability of TV to reach consumers.

Now, however, as more marketers turn to Web video, many are increasingly doing so along with — rather than in place of — television.

“We feel very strongly that video is video,” said Ed Erhardt, president for the ESPN customer marketing and sales unit of ESPN in New York, part of the Walt Disney Company."

The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/business/media/19adco.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 10:56am on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Introducing the New Generation Running Things at The New York Times

Gawker reported on March 16, 2010:

"The only way the New York Times can escape the clutches of a Mexican billionaire is by successfully instituting a paywall. Who has it chosen to manage this treacherous path? The publisher's nephew. He used to run a DJ school.

The Times is a publicly traded company, but the heirs of its modern founder Adolph Ochs and his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, own the voting shares. And in an effort to inculcate all the far-flung cousins—there are 27 fifth-generation descendants of Sulzberger—with a sense of responsibility for the newspaper and its various holdings, the New York Times Company likes to rotate them through the place from time to time.

The company's latest proxy statement, released earlier this week, brought news of yet two more Sulzberger cousins signing up for duty at the mother ship—in this job market, no less! And one of them was particularly momentous: Thirty-three-year-old David Perpich, nephew to Times publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr., who is himself son to his predecessor Arthur "Punch" Sulzberger, who was himself son to his predecessor Arthur Hays Sulzberger, has been hired as the executive director of paid products at NYTimes.com just as the site prepares to wring desperately needed money out of its 17 million monthly users by limiting the number of stories they can read without subscribing. So here's a handy guide to what Perpich—as well as his various kinsman and -women spread throughout the New York Times Company—brings to the table."

The full story:
http://gawker.com/5494768/meet-the-generation-that-will-save-or-destroy-the-new-york-times

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 10:29am on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

New York Times No Longer Exclusive Media Choice at Starbucks

AdAge reported on March 15, 2010:

"After nearly 10 years as the only national newspaper for sale in many Starbucks around the country, The New York Times is facing new coffeehouse competition today as USA Today returns to 6,500 Starbucks stores.

The change doesn't affect many licensed Starbucks locations in airports or malls, where various stores have been free to sell a wider variety of newspapers or none at all. But it means that almost all the company-operated stores that have featured The Times alone among national papers for the past decade will now give shoppers another choice, in addition to the local papers that have been there all along.

And given The Wall Street Journal's new aggressiveness under Rupert Murdoch, particularly toward The Times, it wouldn't be surprising to find a third national competitor barge in soon enough. USA Today, which derives much of its circulation from hotel distribution, already faced a new challenge from The Journal last year when Marriott said it would stop automatically giving the paper to guests, instead letting them choose USA Today, The Journal, a local paper or none at all."

The full story:
http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=142804