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Comment by dclusin | Hacker News Reader

It seems to me like we're finally witnessing the birth of a 21st century news paper. The New York times has always been well regarded for it's journalism. Now we're starting to see what can be accomplished when a credible journalism outfit is complemented by equally credible digital designers.

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The actually appointed a 'Snowfaller in Chief'

http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2013/07/12/new-york-...

Thank god. IMO the "Snow fall" article was the best thing I've seen come out of journalism in many years.

link to the "Snow Fall" article: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/

Wow.. WOW.

That's how written news should be done.

This also reminds me of something similar at The Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/may/26/fire...

I thought it was very well done.

And yet, I can't see this being developed into something regular; I mean, artfully done as this is, eventually they're going to want to make money.

Why not? The NYT, through embracing digitization, has been able to maintain one of the largest subscriber bases in post-Internet newspapers. An increasing proportion of their revenue is coming from subscriptions instead of advertising - if they can develop the right tools, they can pump these out with relatively low cost.

The paywall is more restricted now than when it was first enacted. I won't pay for much online, but I recently signed up for the weekend papers + full online access because I thought the journalism is better than most of the crap found online.

As Paul Graham says, "Do things that don't scale"

They've created quite a few stories like this now. I don't have any links but I've seen several appear on HN.

>21st century news paper

The website suggests otherwise. It was difficult to read it on my phone (iPhone 5). I couldn't pinch - I had to scroll and the images, when tapped, would appear to take over the screen. Honestly, I was expecting them to say "Download our app!" to top it off.

Edit: I just had a look on my desktop. Very impressive and the image-focusing thing makes sense now.

This kind of presentation would work perfectly for magazines like National Geographic.

I wish I could read the article though. Can't get past the paywall.

*its journalism

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