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It's fairly difficult to do American news, centered around American politics and American culture, from not-America. This, at least, applies to editors and jour
by consteval 2y ago
It's fairly difficult to do American news, centered around American politics and American culture, from not-America. This, at least, applies to editors and journalists. But for tech, I'd imagine they need quite a bit of context too.
- AdamN 2y agoAlso the tech team at NYT is co-innovating with the business and journalism sides. Their work is highly ambiguous and changing year to year as they move their capabilities forward. That can't be outsourced or it undermines the strategy. NYT could build that capacity over time in another location that's cheaper but it would still need to be tightly integrated (i.e. employees).
- cloverich 2y agoThats actually a big separator between quality tech companies and lower tier ones ime. Lower tier ones treat devs as a cost center and code monkeys. Higher quality ones treat them as a value generator and expect them to know about and engage with the business. Its what lets them work with more autonomy and intuition to ship the stuff people need most, that generates the most value.