The New York Times

also referred to as: new york times

12 statements across 6 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Hilary Mason · said 88 times in 27 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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Everything said about The New York Times, oldest first

Dec 5, 2013
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hilary Mason: Bitly data shows zero overlap between NYT and Fox News readers
“Nobody who reads the New York Times reads Fox News.”
Hilary Mason Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 14:47 Hilary Mason, Bitly // Data Driven NYC #3 // Feb 2012
Jan 16, 2015
Insight
Tech companies and digital media now operate as church, state, and engineering
“I like to think about the New York Times or any technology company now as church, state, and engineering”
Chris Wiggins Jan 16, 2015 ▶ 9:00 Chris Wiggins, NY Times // Data Science at The New York Times (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 14, 2015 positive
Disclosure
CB Insights collaborated with The New York Times to predict unicorns
“Last week we worked with the New York Times on trying to predict The next unicorns, right?”
Anand Sanwal Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 3:27 Anand Sanwal, CB Insights // What's Next? (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Mar 2, 2018
Assertion Supported
Stent: One-minute news reporting delay corresponded to 3% stock price move
“The distance between 10 38 and 10 39 Was about three percent in the stock price. The distance between the SEC headline and 1055, 20 minutes later, was a 12% absolute difference in the stock price.”
Amanda Stent Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 3:13 Text Analytics for Finance // Amanda Stent, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Jan 17, 2019 positive
Disclosure
The New York Times plans to hire up to 400 product engineers
“But yeah, we're hiring a bunch, and I guess I mean, still in, in the scale of doing, like, product development, that's, it's, that's not a big number, or I guess just to a total of maybe 375 to 400 engineers working on the product.”
Nick Rockwell Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 2:41 Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 17, 2019 negative
Opinion
The NYT cannot build a viable business on third-party tech platforms
“We don't think it's a good delivery vehicle for our product, and we also don't think we can build a business in any of the platforms, really.”
Nick Rockwell Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 28:32 Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 17, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The New York Times sees 150 million unique visitors per month
“We see a hundred and fifty million uniques in a month”
Nick Rockwell Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 15:44 Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 17, 2019 positive
Disclosure
The New York Times migrated almost all infrastructure to Google Cloud
“This is like the culmination of a long process that we'done to migrate almost everything we're doing to Google Cloud. I'm still a certain asset running at Amazon. So in general, we're doing all of our data processing on Google's data infrastructure now and mos…”
Nick Rockwell Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 12:53 Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 17, 2019 positive
Opinion
NYT subscriber growth in 2018 extended beyond the 2017 'Trump bump'
“I think we really passed the Trump bump a while ago, probably even mid to late-thousand 17, so what we saw in 18 was something different was actually, I think, real momentum, and the beginning of Well, not the beginning, but the continuation of our sort of acc…”
Nick Rockwell Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 1:10 Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 17, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
The NYT had over 4 million paid subscribers in Q3 2018
“Yeah, a little higher than that one year, a bit higher. I think that was the third quarter number.”
Nick Rockwell Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 0:57 Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
May 31, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wiggins: The New York Times data science team has about 22 people
“So the data science team is about a 22 person team that develops and deploys machine learning. For newsroom and business problems.”
Chris Wiggins May 31, 2023 ▶ 17:14 A Conversation with Chris Wiggins - Author of "How Data Happened"
May 31, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Wiggins: NYT data science stack relies on SQL, scikit-learn, and Go
“So the data stack is, in my team, the data stack is SQL and scikit, and occasionally Go”
Chris Wiggins May 31, 2023 ▶ 20:55 A Conversation with Chris Wiggins - Author of "How Data Happened"
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