Janet Robinson is going to step down at the end of the month, announced The New York Times.
Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. will serve as CEO for a time, while NYT company look “to the technology sector for a new chief executive as its businesses shift to online formats”, writes Amy Chozick (Media Decoder: Janet Robinson, Chief Executive of Times Co., to Step Down).
I think this is the right move. Media companies need to embrace technology not merely as a means to an end (be it print or web), but as core factor.
Information is going to be more and more data. Gathering, processing, presenting and distributing it needs more and more technological skills and technology understanding at all levels of a media organization, from management to editors.
Being the first, NYT will gain an advantage over their competitors. Again.
Hello, my name is Paulo Querido. I'm a portuguese journalist and writer. Did almost everything in newspapers and wrote a lot about technology and networking. I still publish on print 5 days a week, but I prefer to develop web apps and services for newsrooms ans individual journalists. I occasionally update the conversation going on about new skills that improve journalism in an environment totally full of data, as well as the effects of openness of information and governance around the world.