Altcoin News: The New York Times Is Looking for a Blockchain Specialist

March 14, 2019, by Marko Vidrih on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

The New York Times, the second largest newspaper in the United States, is preparing for experiments with blockchain technology and is looking for a specialist in the company to develop PoS.

According to a vacancy published on Wednesday, the media company is looking for an employee who will help “develop blockchain-based PoS for news publishers.” To launch the project, NYT plans to hire a “visionary leader” who will work on a PoS plan in the research and development department for a year.

The vacancy was removed from the company’s website shortly after the publication of news in the media. However, according to the screenshot of the job description that has spread across the network, the new employee “will develop the vision of the research project and share this vision with potential stakeholders and other media companies”, and also “help the brand create assets for the project”.

Screen shot of the New York Times job posting.

Another task of the new employee is to form a pool of project stakeholders and search for consultants from news organizations, academia, and social networks.

At the same time, the candidate should have experience in the direction of innovation in media companies and a combination of “engineer, designer and journalist” skills, as well as have work experience in these areas for at least 8 years. Required characteristics for the applicant are the skills of communication, business correspondence, presentation, as well as the ability to work in a team.

The head of the blockchain direction should also have a “track record in the field of application of new technologies in real conditions” and “a mixed skill set with experience in at least three of the following areas: journalism, product development, design, software and hardware development, and research user behavior.

The NYT project is not the first blockchain experiment in the media. For example, it became known last summer that the Associated Press intends to license its materials on the blockchain platform Civil. In addition, in January of this year, WordPress announced the launch of Newspack, a new publishing platform with tools for editors and authors developed using blockchain technology.

Author: Marko Vidrih