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By: michael

michael — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:02:05 +0000

I’d like to ad that these Challenges have added quite a lot to the fun of working at NYT – especially to see some projects that didn’t necessarily win go on to fuel conversations in new directions.

On occasion they also result in getting disparate groups talking to each other, and collaborating, that otherwise have little interaction.

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By: Aron Pilhofer

Aron Pilhofer — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:57:45 +0000

Probably worth mentioning that other Tech Challenge winners include Times Wire, Article Skimmer, Widget Factory among others. Several more winners are in development. One or two even came from the newsroom (anyone is eligible to enter).

The purpose here is to encourage people to stop kvetching and start coding. But more importantly, a program like this encourages promotes a culture that rewards technological creativity and individual initiative. That’s a significant (but critical) shift for an organization that has been doing things the same way for a very long time.

By: Jeremy Bowers

Jeremy Bowers — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:14:47 +0000

I do my best work for work from home. Heck, I’m pretty sure that there are whole projects we’d never have launched if not for some late-night insomnia session that produced a prototype for something we’d never intended to build in the first place.

By: Yuri Victor

Yuri Victor — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:14:39 +0000

Working on a project this weekend for a Gannett innovation challenge.