New York Times

Popping the publisher bubble

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Ben Thompson does excellent analysis. In his latest post he talks about the big problems facing journalism and publishing online. Here's my favorite part: It is easy to feel sorry for publishers: before the Internet most were swimming in money,…

Freelancers and the self-employed are ignored by the government

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2015

BusinessSecurity

Sara Horowitz -- who is the founder and executive director of the Freelancers Union -- makes a compelling argument for how important freelancers are to the American economy. She highlights just how big the freelancer economy is: For better or…

Put a bow tie on it

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2015

Aaron Jorbin shared some bullet point thoughts on default themes and their role in the WordPress core development flow. I like them all, and you should check out what he has to say. But one resonated especially as both different…

A New York Times liveblog that starts in Slack and ends in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 7, 2015

Scott Taylor put the flow like this: Slack > Slack > Invisible City > Redis > Pusher > Web socket > React > WordPress Those were the steps to make a real time liveblog even more real time. Scott works at…

WordPress showcase: The New York Times Journeys

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2015

The New York Times Journeys site won a Webby for the best general website category. I learned this thanks to Scott Taylor, who also shared that his co-worker (and fellow prolific core developer) at the Times, Eric Lewis, created the Journeys…

The WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don't know much about it yet. Let's discuss what this project is, why it's important, and how to get involved.

The new New Yorker is live and on WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2014

DesignPlanet

The New Yorker is an iconic magazine that's been in print since 1925, and its online web presence is now on WordPress. Reported in the New York Times originally, the New Yorker is altering its online strategy, broadening the number of magazine articles…

Rethinking Blogs at the New York Times

Brian Krogsgard

January 16, 2014

Development

Scott Taylor works at the New York Times. He's also a major core contributor to WordPress. In this post, he describes how the Blogs division of the New York Times rebuilt their setup to fit into the Times' overall redesign…