@ONA: Arthur Sulzberger, Chairman, New York Times

arthur1.jpg Updated to include audio: Speaking now at the ONA conference in NYC

Note: Yes, he did talk about Judy Miller, and mentioned that it was an institutional failure for Times…more exciting than the rest of the things he said.

Says TimesSelect will create a robust stream of online income, and will be great for our readers. The prelim response is beyond our expectations and traffic is steady.

– We have been seriously exploring on being a “convenor of communities“…like-minded individuals and experts come together.

– We have to build a site which can sustain 1200 people in the newsroom, with $200 million in budgets…we have to build towards that.

– TimesSelect: This was a toughie, when it came to a decision. We had to build into our web thinking which can sustain the kind of journalism. Advertising online right now is great, but as you know, it is cyclical. So we’re building for that…Information, in fact, does not yearn to be free.

Google: Sulzberger and WaPo publisher Don Graham just returned from the Google Zeitgiest conference earlier this week…Arthur says they’ll go where the market leads them…we just need to get there faster. Shame on us if we don’t.

mp3logo1.gif You can download the audio of his speech here. (11.4 Megs, 50 mins.)

Pictures on Flickr and the tag is “onanyc” if you’re uploading pics there.

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