As we keep hearing, we live in an era of unprecedented openness, and should expect – nay demand! – to know everything that goes on anywhere ever. Unfortunately the tendency to open up often becomes exasperatingly self-indulgent, or desperately dull. Not so at The New York Times though where The Sixth Floor Blog is a genuinely fascinating insight into what goes on at America’s most famous newspaper. It’s used to explain design and editorial decisions, analyse comments posted on articles, or cherry-pick stuff the NYT staff really like. Learning, entertainment and time wasting all rolled into one – our kind of combo.
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.