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The New York times printed at A4 size

Frankly this is a much better product than the NyTimes iPad app.

The New York times printed at A4 size

Tbilisi: I travel quite a bit and I had to arrive in Georgia to find this very handy and practical version of The New York Times. It is printed at A4 size and features clean layouts and smart editing of the best of the best of the day’s edition. Frankly this is a much better product than the NyTimes iPad app.
The paper cost one Georgian Lari but is distributed free at my hotel.

Please NyTimes can I get this great product in Berlin, Bitte?
And Cairo? Shokran.

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A private interview with The New York Times CEO, Janet Robinson

Interview with Janet Robinson,
CEO of The New York Times Company
Hamburg, Germany

Janet Robinson addresses 600 editors-in-chief at the World Editors<br />
Forum in Hamburg.

I recently sat, quite literally in fact, on a sofa with Janet Robinson, the CEO of The New York Times to talk about paid content, intellectual property rights for news publishers and the future of paid content as the market shifts from search to mobile apps.

She had just given a lecture at the World Editors Forum in Hamburg and Editors Weblog editor Emma Heald and I deftly arranged to interview her in the room we were using for film interviews with editors-in-chief.

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Interviewing editors at the World Editors Forum in Hamburg


I interviewed several key thinkers at the 17th World Editors Forum in Hamburg last week.
You can watch some of the edited clips on the WEF Hamburg You Tube Channel.

You’ll find thematic clips from Erik Wilberg, Lucy Küng, Janet Robinson, Neil McIntosh, Giovanni di Lorenzo and Abdel-Moniem Said. I made many more interviews and hope to edit them in the near future.

It was an intense week for sharing new ideas. The congress was sold out, there were editors from more than 60 countries with many top people engaged in the packed sessions.

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