The Washington Post To Create WPNYC, a New York-Based Design and Development Office
The Washington Post To Create WPNYC, a New York-Based Design and Development Office:
The Washington Post is building a NYC-based Tech/Design unit. Why? No apparent good reason.
Speculation: Either they’re planning on expanding their Markets/Business (difficult) or NYC (near-impossible) coverage or they’re planning to roll out web- or mobile-based tools as stand-alone products (or a product line) and are finding the ‘start-up community’ insufficient in the DC area to support, staff and publicize such an endeavor.
There is an additional alternative, but one I think truly unlikely, that they simply can’t find the quantity and quality of tech/design staff they need in the DC Metro Area. By my knowledge, this is impossible. The people are all there, the only difference I can think of is that tech people get paid less in NYC than DC, and that’s why I’m maintaining this as a remote possibility.
WaPo has been increasingly becoming a local paper and political focus-publication. There’s unlikely to be a space in the market or industry for it to turn that around. So what’s the reasoning behind this?
NOTE: They aren’t moving into a new office, apparently they still are in the Slate office, thus this makes a whole lot more sense. Via.
EDIT: I’d forgotten that Trove is not part of the Bezos owned WaPo.
