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February 08, 2007
"I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either." That's New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger speaking to Eytan Avriel of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The article continues:
Sulzberger is focusing on how to best manage the transition from print to Internet. "The Internet is a wonderful place to be, and we're leading there," he points out ...
Sulzberger says the New York Times is on a journey that will conclude the day the company decides to stop printing the paper. That will mark the end of the transition. It's a long journey, and there will be bumps on the road, says the man at the driving wheel, but he doesn't see a black void ahead.
Just an inky gray void.
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and he does not overtly mention how the Internet has has helped him find free journalists. I read the NY Times tech blog regularly, and they do a good job scanning blogs and repeating them a few days later, of course with an interview or added insight. In other areas like politics and intl coverage, their original content quotient is probably higher, but tech has clearly benefitted from blogs,
More power to them.
Posted by: vinnie mirchandani ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.roughtype.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 8, 2007 09:44 PM
Am I the only one who thinks that the day the NYT stops issuing a print edition will be a sad day?
Posted by: darkobserver at February 9, 2007 05:33 AM
The New Yorker had a fascinating piece about Sulzberger and the New York Times about a year ago:
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051219fa_fact
The author, Ken Auletta, also wrote a long piece a couple of years ago about Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, and it can be amazing how screwy the management of these top-tier papers can be.
Posted by: Kendall Brookfeld at February 9, 2007 02:26 PM
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