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Panel: Designing the Future of The New York Times
Date/Time: 5 p.m. Saturday
Panelists: Tom Bodkin and Khoi Vinh (The New York Times)
The gist: Bodwin and Vinh talked about some of the philosophies behind their work at the Times, including:
— The belief that there will be thousands of micropublishers and a handful of global news platforms.
— That to be one of these global platforms, the Times has to reconsider all the traditional approaches to journalism and try new approaches.
— The belief that content should be agnostic and go where customers want it to go, from the printed page to iPhones.
— To deliver news in as readable and usable form as possible.
— To deliver news with elegance in design and minimal ornamentation.
Quotes: “It makes me crazy.’— Bodwin, about the amount of content on the Times home page
Takeaways: Bodwin and Vinh discussed where Web design might be headed. Bodwin pointed out that news sites often look like the story-packed front pages of 19th century newspapers and wondered if they, like the printed product, might become more streamlined over time. Vinh was more of the belief that the crowded pages are an inherent part of monetizing the content that news sites give away.
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