The New York Times wants to become like Netflix (Gabriel Snyder, journalist)

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Wired contributor Gabriel Snyder talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about his recent cover story for Wired magazine, "The New York Times Claws Its Way Into the Future." Snyder profiled how the storied newspaper is trying to adapt to the fast-failure-friendly M.O. of a tech company and says it's now betting on one big Netflix-like digital subscription, rather than the multiple smaller subscription products it previously attempted. He also explains why it's so difficult for new ideas to make it up the chain of command inside the NYT and why so many young digital stars have left the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.3	I call you Gabe. I prefer Gabriel, actually. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Little known fact. It's your name. Gabriel Snyder has the wired cover story that is out as we speak. It is about the future of the New York Times. Welcome, Gabriel. Thank you for having me. Sorry for butchering your name. It's all right. Thank you for asking. I think I don't have a huge preference, but I really like the people who ask. This is my new thing. I know at the beginning of each podcast. I screw up someone's name. I say, did I get it right? And they're kind of like, not really.
1:28.4	Then we start from there.
1:29.7	Close enough. Let's talk about the future of the New York Times. So you spent some time with them. You've got a lot of access. And you conclude what? The cover of wire, by the way, is A.G. Salzberger, the third? which Solzberger is just Arthur Greg Salzberger
1:43.9	No juniors or seniors
1:45.0	He's effectively the third
1:45.9	No he is the fifth
1:48.1	D. Sellsberger, Jr., the third? Which Salzberger is? Arthur Greg Salzberger.
1:45.9	No, he's effectively the third.
1:51.3	No, he is the fifth generation of the family to take over.
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