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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Interview with Janet Robinson,
CEO of The New York Times Company
Hamburg, Germany
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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- the man who invented the and the super brain behind talks with Charlie Rose for an hour about the next steps he sees for U.S. Newspapers. He prescribes drastic steps to rescue the lions of the old media.
Here’s how this video clip opens up - which is brilliant story craft in its own right.
Charlie Rose:
So to play offense for a newspaper for you means what?
Marc Andreessen:
Oh, you got to kill the print edition.
Charlie Rose:
You would stop the presses tomorrow?
Marc Andreessen:
You have to kill it.
Charlie Rose:
Stop the presses tomorrow.
Marc Andreessen:
You have to kill it.
Charlie Rose:
Stop the presses tomorrow.
Marc Andreessen:
Stop the presses tomorrow. I’ll tell you what. The stocks would go up. Look at what’s happened to the stocks. This investors are through this. The investors are through the transition. You talk to any smart investor who controls any amount of money, he will tell you that the game is up. Like it’s completely over. And so the investors have completely written off the print operations. There is no value in these stock prices attributable to print anymore at all. It’s gone.
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