Introducing New York Times Audio, a new app exclusively for New York Times news subscribers, featuring audio journalism and storytelling on everything from world events to what to cook.
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Introducing New York Times Audio, a new app exclusively for New York Times news subscribers, featuring audio journalism and storytelling on everything from world events to what to cook.
Hi there 👋 My name’s Alex Rainert and I’m the Head of Audio Product at The New York Times and I’m only one of the many many wonderful product, design, editorial, marketing, engineering, data and research people responsible for bringing New York Times Audio to life. Last week we launched NYT Audio to all Times News subscribers - it’s got reporter reads from Times journalists, narrated articles from other publications, new exclusive shows like The Headlines (3-4 big stories our newsroom is coverin
Is there anything better than listening to your favorite articles? Love the idea! Congrats 🙌
Very interesting to see the NYT continue to expand its app library — in order to control more of its content destiny with exclusive content... presumably to build a deeper relationship with its subscribers and to wrest back some control from podcast platforms like Apple and Spotify. More background on the launch from @arainert.
Wow the design looks amazing! Great launch
Love this pivot further into the audio space! Congrats on the launch.
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Discussion threads divided by interest score. Above 0.30 is strong. Below 0.15 suggests the product got clicks but not conversation.