New York Times

5 Innovative Uses Of Timeline For Facebook Pages

BY David Holmes | 03-02-2012 | 12:51 PM | LEADERSHIP

More than a pretty new layout, here are the ways Timeline is helping everyone from Coldplay to Sierra Club and The New York Times to Doctors Without Borders rethink their public personas.READ MORE›

The New York Times's Nick Kristof On Journalism In A Digital World And The Age Of Activism

BY David D. Burstein | 01-10-2012 | 5:16 PM | ETHONOMICS

Nicholas Kristof has been writing for The New York Times for more than a quarter century, penning articles about struggles in distant parts of the world. We spoke with him about how journalism is evolving in a digital world, his upcoming activist Facebook game, and his annual contest where a reader reports with him overseas.READ MORE›

The Power Of Stillness

BY Lisa Nirell | 01-10-2012 | 7:31 AM | LEADERSHIP

Instead of waiting a year to take a retreat, schedule a strategy session, or review your customer accounts, what would be possible if you scheduled five minutes every day to reflect in silence? Before you break into a cold sweat at the thought of temporarily turning off your electronic devices, consider the benefits of this new daily routine. READ MORE›

Hot Off The Twitter Bot: How To Train Your Newspaper To Survive The Digital Age

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 11-01-2011 | 6:47 AM | INNOVATION

By embracing a "digital first" approach, The Guardian has seen readership on its website shoot up by over 40% year over the past two years. Its latest feature, the Twitter-scaling search bot @GuardianTagBot, should only help. “It has fun and charm, but it's also fantastically useful and structurally sound,” Janine Gibson, who leads the papers' digital operations in the U.S., tells us. READ MORE›

Comcast's Low-Income Net, Groupon's Accounts, New York Times Social Experiment, Tech In London Riots, Coder Hiring Made Easy

BY Kit Eaton | 08-08-2011 | 6:25 AM | INNOVATION

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ MORE›

Aesop's New Kiosk, Made From 1,800 Copies Of The New York Times

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 07-26-2011 | 10:07 AM | JEREMY BARBOUR

Aesop, a skin-care company out Melbourne, Australia, has heralded its first push into the U.S. market by opening a kiosk at Grand Central that’s as American as apple pie. Designed by Aesop director Dennis Paphitis and Brooklyn ... READ MORE›

Meet Facebook's Journalist Ambassador (Yes, We Said Ambassador)

BY Gregory Ferenstein | 05-20-2011 | 4:48 AM | INNOVATION

A 25-year-old Columbia Professor of Journalism, Vadim Lavrusik, is Mark Zuckerberg's media macher. READ MORE›

A Cheery, Super-Stylish Office For Skype, Before Microsoft Swoops In [Slideshow]

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 05-17-2011 | 2:22 PM | YAHOO BOUGHT GEOCITIES

Skype has unveiled a happy, neato, fun-fun office in Stockholm for 100 of its happy, neato, fun-fun employees. Designed by Sweden's own PS Arkitektur, the design revamps the inside of an old brewery with soft, poofy furniture and ... READ MORE›

Personality Test: Which iPad Reader App Are You?

BY Chris Dannen | 04-26-2011 | 4:22 PM | ZITE

New readers help you cut down on overload, find new stuff, watch TV news and read easier. Here's a guide to finding the one to fit your lifestyle ... and party habits. READ MORE›

Personality Test: Which iPad Reader App Are You?

BY Chris Dannen | 04-26-2011 | 4:22 PM | ZITE

New readers help you cut down on overload, find new stuff, watch TV news and read easier. Here's a guide to finding the one to fit your lifestyle ... and party habits. READ MORE›

A Google a Day Keeps the Trivia Away--Puzzling PR by the Search Giant

BY Kit Eaton | 04-11-2011 | 2:06 PM | INNOVATION

Google's launching a new quiz powered by its search engine, with questions published in The New York Times right above the skill-requiring, brain-taxing crossword puzzle. Either this is some weak-sauce PR, or Google's positioning itself as the puzzle arbiter of the next generation.READ MORE›

Visual.ly Wants To Make It Easy to Hire Infographic Genius

BY Cliff Kuang | 04-07-2011 | 8:01 AM | VISUAL.LY

Did ya hear? Infographics are the rage these days. But the downside is that the quality of infographics out there is generally horrible. Visual.ly, a startup, is hoping to solve that problem for anyone that wants to hire a good ... READ MORE›

iFive: Netflix Gets Mad Men, NYT Defends Paywall, Toyota Pulls iPhone Jailbreak Ads, Congress Vs FCC, Teens Love iPhones

BY Kit Eaton | 04-06-2011 | 5:47 AM | INNOVATION

As the saying goes "I'd like mornings if they started later!" If you're feeling like this, then perk yourself up with i5, our early news summary.READ MORE›

Jack Dorsey's Re-Tweet, Radiohead's Newspaper, eBay's Billion-Dollar Spending Spree, Facebook Prof, and more...

BY Gregory Ferenstein | 03-28-2011 | 12:05 PM | ETHONOMICS

Welcome to Fast Feed, the Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--bite-sized and updated all day.READ MORE›

Does Google's Magazine Make It a Media Company?

BY David Zax | 03-24-2011 | 8:25 AM | DESIGN

Aha! Google is caught with ink on its hands. Then Google *must* be a media company after all, right? The truth is not that simple.READ MORE›

The New York Times Playing Whac-a-Loophole Over Paywall? Let Us Count the Ways

BY David Zax | 03-23-2011 | 9:03 AM | DESIGN

Following its paywall (payfence?) announcement, Gray Lady readers across the web have discovered a number of loopholes. Now the Times has moved in to close them.READ MORE›

The Psychology Behind The New York Times Paywall

BY Gregory Ferenstein | 03-18-2011 | 6:54 AM | INNOVATION

On March 28th, The New York Times will erect a monthly, metered pay wall for digital content. This paywall must make it through some key psychological barriers: a territorial grip on once-promised free information, our lazy preference to avoid tough decisions, and flawed memories of how much we actually use a product.READ MORE›

New York Times Releases Digital Subscriptions on Apple's Terms, Print Still Cheaper

BY Kit Eaton | 03-17-2011 | 12:59 PM | INNOVATION

The long-awaited New York Times digital subscriptions paywall has been revealed and, at first glance, it seems exactly to Apple's liking. The cheapest way to get full access? Subscribe to the dead-tree edition. READ MORE›

The Grey Lady Builds the Brand

BY David Zax | 03-02-2011 | 12:56 PM | INNOVATION

All the news that's fit to print. Oh, and daily deals. And continuing education courses... The Times, it is a-changin'.READ MORE›

Leaked Emails: Anti-WikiLeaks Security Firm Targeted Journalists

BY Neal Ungerleider | 02-16-2011 | 11:30 AM | ETHONOMICS

A cache of emails leaked by the Anonymous collective indicates dirty tricks were considered against Salon's Glenn Greenwald; the New York Times's Jennifer 8. Lee and The Guardian's James Ball also appear to have been monitored--they're part of a "sabotage" PowerPoint.READ MORE›