A Visit to the R&D Dept of the New York Times

This is the same exact coverage of the R&D lab we hear about every time - the large collection of gadgets (look at us! we can spend money!), the living room of the "future" (if you can build it, so can others. Yet, no one does...hmmm), and the interactive newspaper stand (I've no words...).

I'm generally disappointed with with the NYT R&D lab. Shifd was kinda cool, but, it's nothing groundbreaking. It seems to me all the real innovation is coming out of the nytimes.com dev. team, while the R&D Department shows off it's gadgets.

(Disclaimer: I worked for the NYT for a summer. I got this same exact tour of the R&D floor. They are high up, the view out the windows was the best part.)

No in depth coverage of the actual R&D that someone like me expected to read and learn from, more like a sales pitch from the BizDev department.

Video: http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/the-new-york-times-envision...