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 ...
...attract the subscriptions necessary to survive.
And therein lies their problem.
Is this the death rattle?
They need rabid change. Out with the rabid leftists, in with real reporters.
significant financial challenges = losing their shirts
What the report left out:
PRINT THE TRUTH
“The New York Times has deftly adapted to the demands of digital journalism”
They are writing comedy now.
“die you gravy sucking pigs”
I always forget that word, but someone may spell it correctly: schaufraude, (sp) I think applies here. Hard to have much sympathy for the troubles of the NY Times.
If they went out of business would we all be better off???
This story reminds me of the immortal words of Andrew Breitbart:
“It’s not your business model that sucks. It you that sucks.”
By the way, I was a reporter for 25 years — never made the big leagues, but you use the same skills on the Podunk Gazette as on the New York Times.
I take the level of incompetence, bias, and duplicity in today’s media real, real, REAL personally.
If Trump wants to organize a new security agency to clean up media treason, please contact Nothingburger here at Free Republic. I would gladly come out of retirement.
These lies are much more amusing than the usual kind.
nyt: “All the fake that’s news to tint.”
You must really be disgusted then with the utter lack of competence in basic English grammar and composition skills demonstrated by today’s “journalists”.
Newspapers have become billionaire blogs.
Bezos bought WaPo so he could be an influence player.
Carlos Slim saved NYT and owns 20%+ so he could pursue the open borders / no wall / cheap labor express Mexican agenda.
Hope both close their doors soon. Complete spin rags now.
Doesn't matter how much lipstick is put on the Old Gray Pig, until it starts reporting the truth instead of advocating liberal propaganda the "newspaper" will continue to decline.
I don’t know, canning Krugman wouldn’t hurt.
The experience Trump supporters and others who despise liberals have felt since 11:00 PM 11/8.
This effect is increased by every liberal who gets on the internet, TV or the radio and has a tantrum.
See also "shadenboner"
As long as the crossword puzzles continue, they can shred the rest of the paper or use it for “bathroom tissue”
schadenfreude ?
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