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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Kara Visits the NYT’s Saul Hansell (and Gets the Non-Mortgaged Tour of the New HQ)!

If BoomTown had known on my recent visit that the New York Times was trying to borrow money, using its spanking new building as collateral, I might have brought a big bag of greenbacks with me just to say I held a mortgage on the stunning edifice. No matter, as I got a most excellent free tour of the Renzo Piano-designed building at 40th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan and lunch last week from the Times’s longtime and sharp tech reporter Saul Hansell, with whom I did a video interview about the state of the Web and more.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Impact of Blogging on Architecture?

In a really fine review of the New York Times’ new headquarters building, which appeared in that paper yesterday, the critic Nicolai Ouroussoff made some interesting observations about the interplay of the design with current digital trends.
The 52-story skyscraper, only part of which is used by the famed newspaper, was designed by Italian architect Renzo [...]

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About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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