A new NYT crossword
The New York Times, which already offers two daily crosswords in its app, is about to launch another. Nieman Lab reports:
The standard Times daily crossword, you see, is a 15×15 grid. The Mini is 5×5. The new Midi is 9×9, snug in between. This is, it probably goes without saying, very smart.
It's a cliched joke these days to say that the New York Times is primarly a games app with some news attached. So what if that's true? The news business has always worked that way. Sunday papers sold well because you'd get a TV guide. Local papers were about jobs and housing listings. We journalists like to think the "news" is the core product, but it rarely actually is.