The New York Times (NYT)

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The NYT is the main propaganda mouthpiece serving the U.S. Democratic Party.

Journalists

As of February 2020, 1,700 journalists work for NYT, and in total in the United States at this time from 20 to 38 thousand newsmen.

Internet audience

2013: The most popular newspaper site in the United States

As of August 2013, in the United States, nytimes.com is the most popular newspaper site, more than half of calls are made through mobile platforms.

2008: In the top 20 Internet giants in the United States by the size of the Internet audience

Internet companies by audience size

Paid digital subscribers

For February 2020, The New York Times is so successful in the new digital space that there are no competitors in sight. Its digital subscribers exceed the sum of similar figures by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and 250 local Gannett newspapers.

Moreover, NYT may soon buy the podcaster studio Serial Productions for less than $75 million. In other words, survivors begin to enlarge and inevitably become platforms.

Tablet editions

2014: Need to know Launch Plan

In early 2014, the publisher plans to launch a new line of inexpensive digital subscriptions called "Need to Know." Subscriptions will include niche topics like cooking or travel, which will be offered at lower prices than standard access to such rubrics.

2013: Snowfall launch and food news product

In August 2013, the NYT announced the launch of a new "immersive" tablet magazine and a new food news product.

The digital magazine, which will be available to users on tablets, will focus on such interactive projects of the publishing house as"#/? part = tunnel-creek Snowfall," which received high marks from colleagues thanks to a combination of the latest technology and high-quality journalistic material. The magazine will publish the best articles for the week published in the newspaper and on the site, as well as multimedia materials created specifically for the magazine. The price at which it will be sold is not yet known.

The NYT's second project is a new online culinary publication that will come out in addition to an existing culinary section on the paper's website. Its editor will be a former NYT food critic who has been involved in national news coverage of late.

According to the New York Times editorial editor Jill Abramson, the editorial board should be a leading force that determines the future path of journalism in the publishing holding and invents new products.

The innovations should strengthen the position of the publication in the media market, while the growth of paid NYT subscribers has practically stopped, and the state of the online advertising market is far from stable. However, analysts warn that profit growth should not be expected in the near future^[1] revenues].

Informatization

2006: Transition to SAP for Media and Salesforce Cloud CRM

In April 2006, it was announced that The New York Times had decided to implement the SAP for Media industry solution based on the mySAP Business Suite. You have selected SAP NetWeaver as your business analysis and reporting tool. Read more here

In July 2006, it was announced that The New York Times planned to purchase 400 Salesforce Enterprise Edition and Salesforce Sandbox system licenses, as well as 225 AppExchange Mobile program licenses for employees of its regional offices. Read more here.

History

2024:270 GB of New York Times sources were freely available

In mid-June 2024, it became known that 270 GB of the source code of the New York Times newspaper were freely available. The internal source code and data belonging to the publication were published on the 4chan forum by an anonymous user as a torrent archive. The publication reported that this data was stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024.

Almost all source code belongs to The New York Times Company, 270 GB, "- said in an anonymous message with the archive published on the 4chan forum. There are about 5 thousand folders (of which, in my opinion, less than 30 are additionally encrypted), only 3.6 million files, uncompressed tar.

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The attacker also shared a text file containing a complete list of 6,223 folders stolen from the company's GitHub repository. Folder names indicate that attackers have gained access to a wide variety of information, including IT documentation, infrastructure tools and source code, including for the Wordle game. The archive's readme file says the attacker used an open GitHub token to gain access to the company's repositories and steal data.

Representatives of The New York Times reported that the hack occurred in January 2024 after the credentials of the cloud third-party platform used by the company were disclosed. Subsequently, the publication confirmed that GitHub is this platform. The company said the GitHub account hack did not affect the publication's internal corporate systems and operations.

The problem was quickly identified and we took appropriate action in response to the data theft. We have no reason to believe that attackers gained unauthorized access to systems owned by the Times and may affect our operations. We are constantly monitoring abnormal activity.[2]

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