NYT Publisher Says Not Focusing on Engineering Was A Serious Mistake

curtwoodward writes "You'd have a hard time picking just one way the traditional news business stumbled into the Internet era. But America's most important newspaper publisher says one mistake sticks out. In a recent discussion at Harvard, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. of the New York Times said newspapers really messed up by not having enough engineers on hand 'building the tools that we're now using.' Instead, the the news business faces a world where outsiders like Facebook and Twitter control the technology that is distributing their work." Or maybe those outsiders are just better.

Comments

Re:Why would they hire engineers?

[Ralph Spoilsport]

Don't be such a troll. If the NYT was so liberal and leftie, explain its stenography for the Bush Admin., resulting in two undeclared wars with thousands of dead people in Iraq and Afghanistan financed with cooked off the books loans, and its support for the Bush led but Obama fulfilled idiocies re: the banking system, Guantanamo, and a host of other violations of common decency.

The answer is: You're a troll, Now go away. Troll.

Re:Right tool, wrong managers

[Anonymous Coward]

Use a website not some convoluted system that you posited. News stories are precisely what HTML was designed for.