The New York Times

==Online platforms==
{{Main|Online platforms of The New York Times{{!}}Online platforms of ''The New York Times''}}
===Website===
nytimes.com has undergone several major redesigns and infrastructure developments since its debut. In April 2006, ''The New York Times'' redesigned its website with an emphasis on multimedia.{{Sfn|Apcar|2006}} In preparation for [[Super Tuesday, 2008|Super Tuesday]] in February 2008, the ''Times'' developed a live election system using the [[Associated Press]]'s [[File Transfer Protocol]] (FTP) service and a [[Ruby on Rails]] application; nytimes.com experienced its largest traffic on Super Tuesday and the day after.{{Sfn|Willis|2008}}
===Applications===
The NYTimes application debuted with the introduction of the [[App Store (Apple)|App Store]] on July 10, 2008. ''[[Engadget]]''{{'}}s Scott McNulty wrote critically of the app, negatively comparing it to ''The New York Times''{{'}}s mobile website.{{Sfn|McNulty|2008}} An [[iPad]] version with select articles was released on April 3, 2010, with the release of the [[IPad (1st generation)|first-generation iPad]].{{Sfn|Chittum|2010}} In October, ''The New York Times'' expanded NYT Editors' Choice to include the paper's full articles. NYT for iPad was free until 2011.{{Sfn|Sorrel|2010}} The ''Times'' applications on [[iPhone]] and [[iPad]] began offering in-app subscriptions in July 2011.{{Sfn|Schramm|2011}} The ''Times'' released a [[web application]] for iPad—featuring a format summarizing trending headlines on [[Twitter]]{{Sfn|Heater|2012a}}—and a [[Windows 8]] application in October 2012.{{Sfn|Heater|2012b}}

Efforts to ensure profitability through an online magazine and a "Need to Know" subscription emerged in ''[[Adweek]]'' in July 2013.{{Sfn|D'Orazio|2013}} In March 2014, ''The New York Times'' announced three applications—NYT Now, an application that offers pertinent news in a blog format, and two unnamed applications, later known as NYT Opinion{{Sfn|Meyer|2014b}} and NYT Cooking{{Sfn|Wilson|2014}}—to diversify its product laterals.{{Sfn|Williams|2014}}

===Podcasts===
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''The New York Times'' manages several podcasts, including multiple podcasts with Serial Productions. The ''Times''{{'}}s longest-running podcast is ''The Book Review Podcast'',{{Sfn|Bisley|2017}} debuting as ''Inside [[The New York Times Book Review]]'' in April 2006.{{Sfn|Paul|2015}}

''The New York Times''{{'}}s defining podcast is ''[[The Daily (podcast)|The Daily]]'',{{Sfn|Schneier|2020}} a daily news podcast hosted by [[Michael Barbaro]] and, since March 2022, [[Sabrina Tavernise]].{{Sfn|Quah|2022}} The podcast debuted on February 1, 2017.{{Sfn|Barbaro|2017}}

In October 2021, ''The New York Times'' began testing "New York Times Audio", an application featuring podcasts from the ''Times'', audio versions of articles—including from other publications through Audm, and archives from ''[[This American Life]]''.{{Sfn|Smith|2021}} The application debuted in May 2023 exclusively on [[iOS]] for ''Times'' subscribers. New York Times Audio includes exclusive podcasts such as ''The Headlines'', a daily news recap, and ''Shorts'', short audio stories under ten minutes. In addition, a "Reporter Reads" section features ''Times'' journalists reading their articles and providing commentary.{{Sfn|Khalid|2023}}

===Games===
{{Main articles|The New York Times Games}}
''The New York Times'' has used video games as part of its journalistic efforts, among the first publications to do so,{{Sfn|Gómez-García|de la Hera Conde-Pumpido|2023|p=451}} contributing to an increase in Internet traffic;{{Sfn|Usher|2014|p=150}} the publication has also developed its own video games. In 2014, ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'' introduced ''[[The New York Times Spelling Bee|Spelling Bee]]'', a [[word game]] in which players guess words from a set of letters in a [[honeycomb]] and are awarded points for the length of the word and receive extra points if the word is a [[pangram]].{{Sfn|Amlen|2020}} The game was proposed by [[Will Shortz]], created by [[Frank Longo]], and has been maintained by Sam Ezersky. In May 2018, ''Spelling Bee'' was published on nytimes.com, furthering its popularity.{{Sfn|Lippman|2020}} In February 2019, the ''Times'' introduced ''Letter Boxed'', in which players form words from letters placed on the edges of a square box,{{Sfn|Sarkar|2019}} followed in June 2019 by ''Tiles'', a [[matching game]] in which players form sequences of tile pairings, and ''Vertex'', in which players connect vertices to assemble an image.{{Sfn|The New York Times Company|2023d}} In July 2023, ''The New York Times'' introduced ''[[Connections (2023 video game)|Connections]]'', in which players identify groups of words that are connected by a common property.{{Sfn|Morris|2023}} In April, the ''Times'' introduced ''Digits'', a game that required using [[Operation (mathematics)|operations]] on different values to reach a set number; ''Digits'' was shut down in August.{{Sfn|Peters|2023c}} In March 2024, ''The New York Times'' released ''[[Strands]]'', a themed [[word search]].{{Sfn|Levine|2024}}

In January 2022, The New York Times Company acquired ''[[Wordle]]'', a word game developed by [[Josh Wardle]] in 2021, at a valuation in the "low-seven figures".{{Sfn|Pisani|2022}} The acquisition was proposed by David Perpich, a member of the Sulzberger family who proposed the purchase to Knight{{Sfn|Klein|2023d}} over [[Slack (software)|Slack]] after reading about the game.{{Sfn|Bruell|2023b}} ''[[The Washington Post]]'' purportedly considered acquiring ''Wordle'', according to ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]''.{{Sfn|Klein|2023d}} At the 2022 [[Game Developers Conference]], Wardle stated that he was overwhelmed by the volume of ''Wordle'' facsimiles and overzealous monetization practices in other games.{{Sfn|Machkovech|2022}} Concerns over ''The New York Times'' monetizing ''Wordle'' by implementing a paywall mounted;{{Sfn|Mukherjee|Datta|2022}} ''Wordle'' is a client-side [[browser game]] and can be played offline by downloading its webpage.{{Sfn|Hollister|2022}} ''Wordle'' moved to the ''Times''{{'}}s servers and website in February.{{Sfn|Carpenter|2022}} The game was added to the NYT Games application in August,{{Sfn|Hicks|2022}} necessitating it be rewritten in the [[JavaScript]] library [[React (software)|React]].{{Sfn|Orland|2023}} In November, ''The New York Times'' announced that [[Tracy Bennett]] would be the ''Wordle''{{'}}s editor.{{Sfn|Orland|2022}}