CG: The New York Times Is Far From “Failing”
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Up over 70% in the past year, the iconic newspaper has enjoyed a major boost in readership thanks to the current presidential administration. Meanwhile, Blue Apron struggles to build momentum as meal kit rival HelloFresh prepares for its IPO.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Fresh Books for supporting the Motley Fool. |
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| 0:13.4 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast it dives into it, a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:20.7 | It's Tuesday, October 24th and I am your host, Vincent Shen. |
| 0:24.0 | We're getting back into the usual swing of things after last week's pitch a stock theme, |
| 0:29.0 | and if you missed any of the episodes or want a consolidated list of the 15 stocks that were pitched by our |
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| 0:42.4 | And one more plug plug we're always |
| 0:43.4 | happy to field questions and take show ideas from fools so you can also use that |
| 0:48.7 | email industry focus at fool.com to pitch us your ideas ask ask us questions, we're always happy to hear from |
| 0:54.1 | listeners. And today we'll be talking about old media and turning our attention to one of |
| 0:58.6 | the most famous names out there in the news, the New York Times. But before we dive in though, we'll also talk about some of the |
| 1:04.7 | latest developments at Blue Apron and will also preview the upcoming IPO for one of its |
| 1:09.7 | meal kit rivals, Hello Fresh. And joining me for this discussion via Skype is Senior Fool |
| 1:14.9 | dot com contributor, Osset Sharma. Welcome, Osset, great to have you with us as always. |
| 1:19.7 | Vince, Ola, and listeners. |
| 1:23.0 | What Up Fools? |
| 1:25.1 | So I mentioned this to you before the show, |
| 1:26.8 | but I wanted to quickly get your thoughts. |
| 1:29.5 | Maybe just spend a couple minutes talking |
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