Tag: NYT

• With all the fervour of tribesmen waving a talisman to ward off evil spirits, the authors repeatedly praise the outstanding quality of the NYT’s journalism. A touch smug, an outsider might think, but hardly controversial. But nowhere do the authors ask what journalism now is. The gulf between the information-poor world when the NYT was…

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  28/11/2014

  Work

  innovation, journalism, NYT

• My response to Nick Bilton on “Hey, ‘Friend,’ Do You ‘Like’ My Sad Story?”

  Today, the NYT’s Nick Bilton writes: I recently “liked” a story about five people dying in an explosion in Connecticut. I didn’t actually “like” the fact that five people had died in a terrible accident. Technically, I didn’t even “like” the story — I found the reporting and writing informative and the narrative engrossing, but…

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  08/03/2010

  Human rights, Journalism, Technology, Work

  Hub, language, Nick Bilton, NYT, preferences, social media, web design, WITNESS