Jeremy W Peters Nyt News Service

In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business, one that has stubbornly, proudly clung to a sense that focusing too much on the bottom...

In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business, one that has stubbornly, proudly clung to a sense that focusing too much on the bottom line can lead nowhere good.Now, because of technology that can pinpoint what people online are viewing an...

In most newsrooms, the joke would have been obvious. It was April Fools' Day last year, and Politico's top two editors sent an e-mail message to their staff advising of a new 5 am start time for all reporters."These pre-sunrise hours are often the best time to reach top officials or their aides," the editors wrote, adding that reporters should try ...

Welcome to the era of the algorithm as editor. For as long as hot lead has been used to make metal type, the model for generating news has been top-down: editors determined what information was important and then shared it with the masses.But with the advent of technology that allows media companies to identify what kind of content readers want, th...

When the operators of Southern Seaplane in Belle Chasse, La., called the local Coast Guard-Federal Aviation Administration command center for permission to fly over restricted airspace in Gulf of Mexico, they made what they thought was a simple and routine request. A pilot wanted to take a photographer from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans to snap...

It appears that her tart tongue may have finally ended Helen Thomas's career. Ms. Thomas said on Monday that she was retiring, effective immediately, after an uproar over her recent remarks that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and go home to "Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else."

In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business, one that has stubbornly, proudly clung to a sense that focusing too much on the bottom...

In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business, one that has stubbornly, proudly clung to a sense that focusing too much on the bottom line can lead nowhere good.Now, because of technology that can pinpoint what people online are viewing an...

In most newsrooms, the joke would have been obvious. It was April Fools' Day last year, and Politico's top two editors sent an e-mail message to their staff advising of a new 5 am start time for all reporters."These pre-sunrise hours are often the best time to reach top officials or their aides," the editors wrote, adding that reporters should try ...

Welcome to the era of the algorithm as editor. For as long as hot lead has been used to make metal type, the model for generating news has been top-down: editors determined what information was important and then shared it with the masses.But with the advent of technology that allows media companies to identify what kind of content readers want, th...

When the operators of Southern Seaplane in Belle Chasse, La., called the local Coast Guard-Federal Aviation Administration command center for permission to fly over restricted airspace in Gulf of Mexico, they made what they thought was a simple and routine request. A pilot wanted to take a photographer from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans to snap...

It appears that her tart tongue may have finally ended Helen Thomas's career. Ms. Thomas said on Monday that she was retiring, effective immediately, after an uproar over her recent remarks that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and go home to "Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else."