The Reyes Report

Earlier this week, I attended a lecture with the NYC chapter of the Usability Professional Association called  The NYTimes and the Online News Experience . The lecture was outstanding, so I’m sharing my notes perchance others find the content worthwhile.

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Date: 27 January, 2009
Location: Bloomberg office tower, midtown Manhattan.
Speaker: Andrew Devigal, multi-media editor for the New York Times
Presentation materials: Pre-read – renegade cybergeeks in new journalism | speaker’s slides — grrrr, supposedly these are on his delicious account, but I wrote down the wrong URL and I’ve just spent 20 minutes not finding them; will add later if I can dig them up.

Ok, let’s start with first impressions. The venue was enviously gorgeous. A glassy, techy homage to success and money money money. I brought a few colleagues with me and we couldn’t be sure if we were more impressed by the video cameras at the security check-in, the moving monitor screen art representing the famed Bloomberg terminals, the fish-tanks-as-columns in the atrium, the free-coffee and free-snacks stations (that’s “stations” plural) or the amazing two-story hall that led through it all, up a glitzy open stairway, to the open bar and hors d’œuvre buffet at the auditorium’s entrance.

But I digress … we should move past the meat of the mini-burgers to the meat of the event.

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