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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.”
Hilary Mason: Bitly data shows zero overlap between NYT and Fox News readers
“Nobody who reads the New York Times reads Fox News.”
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…”
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…”
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.”
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”
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.”
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.”
The New York Times sees 150 million unique visitors per month
“We see a hundred and fifty million uniques in a month”
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.”