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Meredith Artley

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first: 2019-01-14
most recent: 2019-01-14
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“Exactly Exactly. But we were doing, we started experimenting because we didn't have that because the paper wasn't paying attention to us.”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you were at the time, so you were putting stuff up on the web. There was not the New York Times app, there was not the New York Times anything. The Wall Street Journal was trying things too, if you remember at the time. Early with the paywall. Early with the paywall and selling things. There was no apps or any way other way to access it besides an internet site kind of things. And it was just an amalgamation of what was in the paper, essentially.”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the chats, and all of that. I mean, it was good. And, you know, listen, I sound like such an old person now, and I am, but I think, if anything, like Looking at the trajectory of my career and what I've learned along the way gives me this perspective and experience that none of this is permanent that we're going through right now. So, when you have the conversation, as you often do. Around what's going to happen with Facebook, where are we going to be at in a year or two or three? You just know it's all going to keep on changing.”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Working in the market And it just seemed like a no brainer. And it was magnificent career path. And it was only back then, it was only the newspapers who were hiring in digital. So like broadcast wasn't even an option.”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like, I took one of, I think it was, if not the, it was one of their first classes on like. There's the internet, and so there's journalism, and maybe the two things could intersect. And we learned about all the internet service providers and prodigy and what it like. All of it. And so I was a broadcast major, and I really got this idea of, wow, I could actually graduate and go Work for the New York Times out of school instead of”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, you know, or early days, like the technology and the journalism were really. Heavily intersected They are now too, but like now, like digital so big, right? So you could fit the entire New York Times electronic media company staff in 1996 on one page. And it was the journalists who were like the web producers and editors like I was. It was the sales team and the HR team and all of that. And we were, I mean, Bernie was amazing, but we were essentially without adult supervision.”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was incredible. And we were first, me and a handful of others were hired because we were. Kids with a journalism degree and knew a little bit about the internet and they wanted someone to come and copy and paste the paper onto the internet. Right, and so some of us worked on the web, some of us worked on the AOL whole thing. We went.”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who's incredible You know, Bernie was the former foreign editor of the paper. He was like the Moscow correspondent during the Cold War. And I think they were kind of looking, he was, he wanted to know what he could do next, and he was getting close to retirement age. And they're like, go do this web thing.”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's right. So there's cnn.com on mobile and desktop. There's the app. There's everything we do across social, right? So that's just everything. And off platform too. So YouTube, Amazon, whatever it is. So we calculate and things like Apple News, all of that. So that 200 million unique users a month Or sometimes it's like 22 23 million unique users a day. We calculate this down to the hour. I mean, there are people who are just on the team and like addicted to it. But that includes everything. Seniorian.com, CNN International, CNN Business, CNN politics, just everything we do under the stuff.”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. This is not in the TV business. That's right. That's not in the TV business. And we're addicted to data and audiences. And what do we know? The data is a proxy for the audience, right? So that's That's kind of how we like operate our day digitally. And”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that was a product placement there, I guess. Sorry. Yeah, listen, we get 200 million unique users a month just across digital.”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is digital, period, the whole business is digital. So I wanted to sort of talk a little bit about your background, how you got to where you got. And people don't know this. CNN is the largest purveyor of news on the planet. Is that correct? How does that measure? Explain how that's measured. I've seen the charts and different things.”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hi, I'm Kara Swisher, editor at large of Recode. You may know me as someone who likes CNN a little better just because Donald Trump hates it, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today in the red chair is Meredith Artley, the editor-in-chief of CNN.com and the senior vice president of CNN Digital Worldwide. That's a big title, Meredith. Previously, she worked at the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. Meredith, welcome to Recoat Decode. Thanks for having me. I'm sorry, I was late today because I lost my phone of all things and I feel terrible. I've had Meredith waiting. It's tragic. It's a tragic moment for Kara Swisher. I can tell you that since I'm married to my phone and it's the best relationship I've ever had in any case, we want to really interested in what's going on at CNN and a lot of the different large websites because a lot of I want to go sort of into your background. You wrote me a really fantastic email about where news is going digitally and obviously so much news now.”
2019-01-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT