As a photojournalist, I wanted to document the experience of standing in the same spot as NYT photogs Todd Heisler and Tyler Hicks. Of course, meeting them would have been awesome, but that would have been extremely lucky, considering how much they travel. There are about 26 full-time photographers and 40 photo editors. The Times heavily depends on freelancers, as well.
I was certainly thankful that KSU alumn and NYT VP and editor Nancy Lee invited us in and showed us the newsroom, which was a sunken treasurer of desks right in the middle of four newsroom floors. I leaned against the Plexiglas rail and peered down, thinking how cool it would be to work in such a quite, clean, open space.
Nancy had apologized because the space was simply a newsroom, nothing special. I beg to differ. It's the NEW YORK TIMES, for goodness sakes. Of course it's special!
Another bonus - I held an iPAD today. It demonstrates the lightening speed of changing technology in the news delivery business. We all know the news has gone mobile. It's now simply a matter of choosing your device. Droid or iPhone? iPAD or Kindle? I prefer a good old-fashioned newspaper, myself - like the New York Times.
Rob Samuels, NYT's director of mobile product development, did say a team of experts were working on pay per device models that would limit free web content. Consider that last year there were 3/4 of a billion web views. That's a lot of lost revenue. I'm curious to see who else climbs on board, considering the Times is an international leader in news.
Today was a great introduction to the media scene in The Big Apple. There are 12 students, 2 instructors and one big giant city to explore. Tomorrow - the Associated Press.
Broadsheet - I think most newspapers did away that a few years back. It is like the incredible shrinking paper. Even the NYT and the WSJ are narrower and narrower each year.
ReplyDeleteI really miss the Blade's Peach paper. Not sure why, but I do.