Kellen Henry

Eli Manning said: E: Hey Sampath, I hope you have had a good start to the new year. I know your team is busy getting ready for Phoenix. Sowmyanarayan Sampath said: S: Hey Eli — I would have been even more excited if my team, the Giants were playing. That game in Philly was rough... Sowmyanarayan Sampath said: S: But we are ready for the Super Bowl. The network is ready for the Super Bowl. Eli Manning said: E: The game in Philly was tough, but the Giants had an awesome season.

For many of our readers, the New York Times desktop home page is an important and familiar place to connect with the news each day. It also hasn’t changed much over the last decade, even as the story formats we use, the platforms we support, and the ways our readers consume content online have rapidly evolved. We’ve invested heavily in making our mobile apps expressive and visually dynamic, but our desktop website has lagged behind, powered by a siloed and aging set of tools.

The New York Times reaches more readers today than ever before in its 164-year history thanks to the rise of mobile. On Android specifically, user growth in recent years has been explosive. We were early adopters of Android, launching our first app for the platform in 2010. Last summer, while planning upcoming development, we took an honest look at the experience we were offering users. Despite pushing new features and updates, we realized our app was no longer a cutting-edge product.