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New York Times CEO warns publishers ahead of Apple news launch
Apple Inc is expected to launch an ambitious new entertainment and paid digital news service on Monday, as the iPhone maker pushes back against streaming video leader Netflix Inc. But it likely will not feature the New York Times Co.
Mark Thompson, chief executive of the biggest U.S. newspaper by subscribers, warned that relying on third-party distribution can be dangerous for publishers who risk losing control over their own product.
"We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else," he told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. "We're also generically worried about our journalism being scrambled in a kind of Magimix (blender) with everyone else's journalism."
Thompson, who took over as New York Times CEO in 2012 and has overseen a massive expansion in its online readership, warned publishers that they may suffer the same fate as television and film makers in the face of Netflix's Hollywood insurgence.
See also: Apple secures deal with WSJ for paid Apple News service, NYT and Washington Post opt out
Apple reaches deal with Vox for upcoming Apple News subscription service, report says
Apple is on a hardware-launching bonanza ahead of its big TV announcement
Apple teams with media literacy programs in the US and Europe
Previously: Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 24 2019, @03:15AM
Sure there may be 'people' looking at this stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L7bdwVaA [youtube.com]
Humans are accountable and have journalistic standards and ethics that moderate what you see on their sites and in their print editions
But I would posit they are lazy and not doing a good job.
Once you think about how news is made and designed you realize it has very little to do with reality. They rush to print/say anything, *A*N*Y*T*H*I*N*G*. Better to get the scoop and redact something later than do it right the first time. Then on top of that our news can be bought. On the old green site Slashvertisiment was something thrown around a lot. But they did do it. They allowed people to buy stories or would run someone elses. 'normal' news does that too (a lot). Do you think political groups would not stoop down to the same things? Hell many times they have their entire segment written up. All the 'news' has to do is run it or read it with some pretty face with conviction. It is 20 mins to air/print and you have a gap in your layout/show the size of the titanic. You have a pre-canned thing ready to go. What do you do? Sit in front of your audience and shrug and say 'sorry we fucked up no news tonight', or jam something in there that is kind of flashy and keeps people engaged?