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 ...
They are writing comedy fiction, now.
From this time forward I will refer to the NYT and the WaPo as “billionaire blogs”. Thanks for the perfect name. Most people do not realize that their goal is propaganda for the Dems, not making a profit.
(The Never Trumpers and Dems never die. They just get smellier, snarl, whine more and look/act very depressed!)
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Many of us suspected that was how Walter Cronkite did his "show prep" — straight from the NYT every night.
LOL - good one.
I take no pleasure in anyone’s job loss — not even of members of the MSM. I just pray for full employment for American workers
I think it is too late. By the time the Slimes convinces me they are serious about telling the truth they will have lost their current leftist-idiot readers. Besides, I want them to fail as a punishment for their crimes against humanity.
Right you are.
It’s the Bezos Post and the Slim Times.
I remember reading almost the exact same NYT study with the same conclusions several months ago, and NYT did not implement a single one of the recommendations. (Among other things, I remember they recommended opening comments for ALL articles and that NYT should consider stationing some of their “journalists” in the hinterlands as one means of breaking up their inherent liberal, NY City bias.)
I think NYT must commission one of these “what must we do to survive” internal reports every year or so, and the new team simply dusts off the last report, change it a bit, and present it to management, which then promptly ignores it.
“The Times and other news organizations are also bracing for the challenges of covering an administration that is openly hostile to the news media, while trying to forge a stronger connection to the large bloc of voters who swept Mr. Trump to the presidency.”
ROTFLOL!
I had no idea the NYT had such a subtle sense of humor!
Most important, it affirms The Times’s commitment to its subscriber-based revenue model “We are, in the simplest terms, a subscription-first business,” the report says. “We are not trying to maximize clicks and sell low-margin advertising against them. We are not trying to win a page-views arms race.”
Among the report’s recommendations is to improve and expand The Times’s training efforts and accelerate hiring to shift the balance away from print-focused roles.
[Cognitive dissonance?]
Maybe they’ll move to Mexico to cut costs.
Maybe they want to report more on the poop culture.....uh, pop culture....but really it is the poop culture!! The left has DIRTIED everything they have touched!
FTA: “...to conduct a review of the newsroom and determine a blueprint for its path forward. Titled “Journalism That Stands Apart...”
Single line: tell the truth
Who, What, Where and Why
“...conduct a review of the newsroom and determine a blueprint for its path forward. Titled “Journalism That Stands Apart,”
They could start by telling the truth. That’d help them stand apart.
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