Posted on 01/17/2017 12:26:53 PM PST by Beave Meister
The New York Times has deftly adapted to the demands of digital journalism, but it needs to change even more quickly, according to an internal report that recommends the company expand training for reporters and editors, hire journalists with more varied skills and deepen engagement with readers as a way to build loyalty and attract the subscriptions necessary to survive.
The report, released to The Times newsroom on Tuesday, is the culmination of a year of work by a group of seven journalists who were asked by Dean Baquet, the executive editor, to conduct a review of the newsroom and determine a blueprint for its path forward. Titled “Journalism That Stands Apart,” and known internally as the 2020 report, it provides a set of broad principles to accelerate the pace of transformation while maintaining a commitment to high-quality journalism.
The report comes at a particularly sobering time for the legacy media industry. The steep and continuous decline of high-margin print advertising has led to significant financial challenges for most newspapers, which in turn are cutting costs and trying to find new revenue sources to bridge the gap. News organizations, including The Wall Street Journal and Gannett, are reshaping their newsrooms and have made significant cuts in staffing. The Journal is currently conducting a newsroom review similar to that of The Times, called WSJ2020.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
1. Tell the truth.
2.Maintain complete objectivity.
3. Keep your f*&^king opinions to yourself.
Did Dean Baquet ask ‘the ‘seven’ if a recent spike in ‘digital subscriptions’ was a democrat manipulation?
Or was the number real? A number that could help advertisers keep their doors open? Or did ‘the seven’ obsess about silly stuff like minor ‘mistakes’ as opposed to rampant bias?
Part of what newspapers do is deliver their readers to their advertisers... Something that can only happen if ‘readers’ trust the paper enough to keep turning the pages. I suspect there will be more downsizing in the Time’s future...
scha·den·freu·de
NOUN
pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune.
I have come to love this word myself.
Didn’t you mean “caning” Krugman? (great song title BTW)
TO quote the immortal Doctor Raul
Bias = Layoffs
Stop pushing a marxist agenda and I’ll subscribe.
The New York Times proves their steadfast intransigence on a daily basis. They refuse to anything that steps outside of their blind liberal dogma. In that ongoing effort the NYTimes has been wildly successful in building and sustaining and alternate universe for leftists by providing a daily dispensation of its manifesto.
While their followers are legion, they are in fact a minority. Yet the NYTimes has refused to make any changes. They simply dress up and rearrange the same stagnant leftist pabulum and call that change.
Yet in all their ongoing public pronouncements for the need to change, they refuse. Their stock keeps sinking. Foreign investors pour in fresh capital to keep them afloat, they lease their new building, then they abandon and lease out whole floors yet they still can’t make a profit and claim never to know why?
I totally believe that they are committed to circling the drain and collapsing rather than submit themselves to the truth and print it. For decades many have shouted your very obvious problem. You refuse reality. So be it. Will the last one at the NYTimes please turn out the lights and for one last time reduce your final carbon footprint.
maintaining a commitment to high-quality journalism.
HA HA!
Here’s a tip to the NY Times: Hire journalists who report the truth and have no agenda. Then stay out of their way. A good test of your success is you lose 50% of your Manhattan subscriptions.
I haven’t heard that name (Doctor Raul) in such a long time....RIP...
although I would imagine he’s waiting to party too come Friday....
I’d be good with that.
How about stop being a commie rag in America, doesn’t make marketing sense.
I would have guessed they already installed transgender restrooms over at the times?
Only way to survive, they should Hire Trump and pay his tweeter account.
I remember years ago...maybe 30 years...when the New York Times was a respected newspaper. Now it’s unfit for birdcage liners
I was in the tv news business for 10 years, many years ago.
The lazy tv news producers literally took their stories from the daily papers– clipped them out and xeroxed them for everyone– no original reporting whatsoever. The audience didn’t care, as it was less work than having to read the papers. Plus, pretty girls in cocktail dresses and men speaking in grave tones about things you were supposed to care about. It’s so quaint to see this charade is still exercised, though less egregiously.
The tv news managers went out of their way to avoid pissing off politicians and sponsors; the station managers and sales people were extremely sensitive to anything that affected their numbers. News directors obsessed over the Nielsens, which today look like nothing more than guesswork.
I was friendly with the company accountant at the time; we’d ride the train together. He once told me that the business was 100% profitable– they earned twice their expenses. I’m pretty sure that’s no longer the case.
Not sorry to see biased news die off.
“while maintaining a commitment to high-quality journalism”
Therein lies the problem. They have not even approached that standard in a very long time. It probably should have read ‘adherence to the party line and the propagation propaganda.’
There! fixed it
Yes, I recall the word. You are correct in your use, if not the spelling. I don’t use it as I can never spell it either! ;-D
There is no need in today’s world for the Ny Slimes, Compost, La Raza Times or any other sanctuary city’s left wing fish wrap.
Any company that buys ads in any of the above fish wraps, needs to be told by their board members to stop wasting precious money on worthless ads.
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