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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by mattberkowitz on Friday April 13, 2018 @09:06AM (#16829589)
I'm an engineer on our CMS team and as Albert mentioned we're currently seeking both back-end and front-end team members. We're not opposed to hiring skilled developers that don't have deep experience the specific language or frameworks we use. There's also always the option of joining the back-end and transitioning over time to a more front-end role. If you're interested, I'm happy to answer any questions or connect you to the hiring manager.
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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by sharpercoder on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:19PM (#16831433)
NYT seems remote friendly, but is NYT remote non-US friendly? Front-end/Full-stack engineer from The Netherlands here.
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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by mattberkowitz on Friday April 13, 2018 @02:53PM (#16832886)
We do have news employees in bureaus around the world but I'm not sure what the the exact policy is for tech employees. I'll see if I can find someone with the answer for you
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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by youpassbutter on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:19PM (#16831427)
A CMS team? Christ, no wonder NYTimes is losing money.
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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by dang on Saturday April 14, 2018 @07:39PM (#16840211)
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by andrei_says_ on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:33PM (#16831561)
As someone who has worked on the integration of off the shelf CMS and as well as built in house ones, I question this statement.

There’s a lot of value in building tools that fit the domain and workflow perfectly well. It’s expensive in the short term but in the long term saves a lot of time and money.

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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by youpassbutter on Friday April 13, 2018 @01:29PM (#16832053)
Sure. But it doesn't take a "team" to build up a CMS. This is why media "tech teams" are viewed as a joke in the tech industry.
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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by mgkimsal on Friday April 13, 2018 @04:17PM (#16833548)
WTF?

It takes a 'team' to provide any sort of professional level of support for an organization of their size. If the one-person "CMS/tech wizard" decides to stop working, or die, or get sick, or take an extra 4 hours to be with their family, the entirety of the NYT operations should just say "oh well, we'll just wait around for a while until we find our next one person to be our tech saviour"?

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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by andrei_says_ on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:54PM (#16834623)
It is not constructive for me to engage with this level of cinicism.
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