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The New York Times' edge in technology

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 29

One of the biggest challenges for mainstream media is to get funding for innovative tech and data projects. Another is to attract tech brainpower. Why, after all, would top ranking Numerati want to toil in a small group at ink-smudged media outfits, when they can live among their kind and (eat far better food) at tech companies, or land equity at a start-up?

That’s what makes the New York Times especially impressive. In the past I’ve written about their programming efforts in Amazon’s cloud. Now I see that they were developing data charts of Michael Jackson’s music career within hours of his death. The ability to turn data quickly into analysis and editorial product is key for the future of journalism. The question is whether these datahounds will be working for media or tech companies, or combinations of the two.

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oldeinvestor

July 7, 2009 05:24 AM

i occasionally read nyt in the 1930's as my grandparents rcvd paper in los angeles; read avidly when shortly stationed at mitchell airbase on long island. much later after mustering out. read, later subscriber in calif. for many years...but...the best newspaper in usa has become the worst. what edge, technology used for biased trash, can't call what nyt prints as reporting. and we taxpayers are lobbied against behind closed doors for tax dollar bailout. i know the nyt is vital to wrap garbage, but my tax dollars ? let sell out to "acorn" and become a "govt mouthpiece"

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