Quality and innovation

Many wonder what is the key to success, in its print and digital formats, of The New York Times. And David Rubin, its chief strategist, doesn’t blink to say it: quality and innovation.

Combining a careful commitment to the quality of its content, with in-depth analysis, reports and processed and contextualized data, the printed The New York Times marks distance and amplifies its subscriber base with 8 million.

Although the great blow of its upward curve was achieved during the first year of the pandemic, thanks to a continuous and live tracking of cases, adding two million subscribers, as Rubin said in a panel of the 77th General Assembly of the Inter American Press Association, the auction was reached by incorporating the latest technologies of artificial intelligence.

In this case, technological innovation represented the driving force that has allowed the Times to rise as a paradigm of transformation in this new era of communications.

With artificial intelligence, newspapers improve their news editing processes, content creation, marketing mechanisms, subscriptions and closer ties with the preferences and tastes of their customers or users. Its costs, at the moment, are high and that is why it has not had a more widespread application in Latin America.
The search for quality is already understood, at the traditional media level, as the alternative to the fake news crisis and the manipulations that have undermined the news model, greatly damaging the credibility of digital media.

The void that arises from this mistrust is what has triggered the alarms of professional, ethical and responsible journalism, to produce content adjusted to the truth and reality, but with the added values provided by the silos of data processed with the technology of the artificial intelligence, discovering angles and novel aspects of a story.

It is not so difficult to take the path of quality, but if it is not accompanied by technology, the formula for success of The New York Times would not be completed. The latter continues to be the great stumbling block for many Latin American media that want to soar and gain more audiences and generate more income to ensure a long and sustainable survival.