On point 1, editors at the NYT have previously said publicly that mobile is how they envision readers will primarily consume stories. (I heard this from their I

On point 1, editors at the NYT have previously said publicly that mobile is how they envision readers will primarily consume stories. (I heard this from their Inside The Times podcasts.) It may have been been executive editor Dean Baquet who said this. I believe they said that their internal metrics show mobile already is how most people consume their stories. You can see this reflected in some new design decisions. On the front page, some stories have a bulleted list of points rather than multiple paragraphs for the teaser. And at the top of some stories, they have a bulleted list of main points