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Hearst Press Release Rajiv Pant Named General Manager of Technology Platforms and Chief Technology and Product Officer of Hearst Magazines, Hearst Autos, a...
Cloudflare TV: Builders and Innovators: Interview
Cloudflare's President of Field Operations, Chris Merritt, interviewed Tech luminary and entrepreneur Rajiv Pant for the Builders and Innovators segment on...
My New Job at News Corp (Parent Company of The Wall Street Journal)
Dear Family and Friends, I'm moving into an exciting new job at News Corp, the parent company of my current employer, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones...
Activities, Outputs, and Outcomes — A framework for your job
This is a framework for understanding, describing, and actually performing your job in a way that creates real value. After years of watching talented peop...
Management & Technical Career Growth Tracks (v3)
In follow-up to earlier work on a) versions one and two of these technical and related career tracks, b) pathways for career development in product enginee...
My next chapter
This isn’t something I thought I’d be writing – if you read my recent piece on Thrive Journal, you’d know how excited I was to join Thrive Global. I’d long...
Why I Joined Thrive Global
Sometimes in life, we reach a new starting line where we sense that everything we have experienced and done so far has been preparing us for this next step...
Reflections on the Yale CEO Summit 2016: Disruption and Leadership in Focus
Yesterday, I attended the Yale CEO Summit for the second time. The summit, held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, brought together some of the world...
Fastly’s Altitude Summit
Rajiv spoke at Fastly's Altitude 2016 Summit in San Francisco. #Altitude2016 was a full day conference featuring technical content and idea sharing about t...
Hackathon: Impact Journalism in New York
On April 8-9 2016, the Global Editors Network (GEN), The Huffington Post and Change.org will gather the best media innovators in New York for a two-day Edi...
My Interview in TheMarker Magazine
During my recent visit to Tel Aviv, I was interviewed by the well-respected Israeli business and technology journalist Inbal Orpaz for TheMarker Magazine. ...
Womensphere Summit 2016
At the Womensphere Summit 2016 in New York City, Rajiv spoke on Supporting and Championing Women in Tech Leadership. (March 6, 2016)
Womensphere Summit 2014 – NYC
At the 2014 Womensphere Summit, in addition to opening remarks with Analisa Balares – CEO & Founder of Womensphere and fellow YGL, Rajiv spoke in theCareer...
Why I left being CTO of The New York Times, joined a startup, and am pledging 20% of my equity to charity
As The New York Times’ chief technology officer, I had a crucial role in guiding the company’s successful transition to digital, and an opportunity to work...
A career is like a garden (farewell memo to nytimes colleagues)
The following is the farewell memo I wrote to my colleagues at The New York Times. Subject: A career is like a garden Dear Colleagues, As you may know, I h...
Womensphere Summit 2015
At the 2015 Womensphere Summit in New York City – Rajiv spoke on Advancing Women's Leadership & Innovation. (February 25th, 2015)
Reflecting on the Yale CEO Summit 2014: A Confluence of Global Leadership and Local Sensitivities
I recently attended the Yale CEO Summit, a gathering of some of the world's most influential leaders across various sectors. The summit, held at the Waldor...
Smithsonian Digitization Fair – Keynote Speaker
As keynote speaker, Rajiv opened this conference with a talk about digital strategy and innovation at the NYT. (October 29, 2014)
IESE Business School Executive Education Course
Rajiv was invited to be a Guest Speaker in the Executive Education course at the IESE Business School. He spoke about leadership, management and organization...
AppSec USA: Security & Journalism Panel
At the AppSec USA conference Rajiv and his fellow panelists, reporters and IT pros, discussed how security issues have affected them and leading-edge softw...
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014
At the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014 ("Summer Davos") hosted in Tianjin, China – Rajiv spoke at the sessions “The Cha...
Landmark CIO Summit 2014
At the Landmark CTO Summit 2014, Rajiv spoke with Rhonda Vetere, Chief Technology Officer – Estee Lauder and Abe Cytryn, Chief Technology Officer – Time In...
Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business – Guest Speaker on Organizational Behavior
At Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Rajiv was a guest speaker / panelist and spoke about organizational behavior at two sessions to MBA s...
QCon New York
At QCon New York, Rajiv was a keynote speaker along with Marc Frons and spoke about Technology Innovation at The New York Times. Photos from the event on Fli...
Columbia University’s Journalism School’s Spring Journalism and Technology Breakfast Event
At Columbia University's Journalism School's Spring Journalism and Technology Breakfast event, Rajiv Pant, CTO at The New York Times and Sam Curry, CTO, Id...
HR Classification and Discretionary/Business Job Titles for Makers, Managers and Leaders in Technology
This article presents an organization system and policy for job titles of maker, manager and leader roles in technology staffs. Separate job titles for HR ...
Management & Technical Career Growth Tracks (v2)
This second version of the diagram illustrating technical career tracks reflects the following updates since version one: A product management track is now...
Genwi Conference on The Future of Content and Monetization
Rajiv was a speaker at Genwi's conference on The Future of Content and Monetization in New York. (September 27, 2012)
Some Pathways for Career Development in a Product Engineering Organization
The diagram below illustrates some pathways for career development in an engineering-focussed product development organization. It shows an organization wh...
Four Years at Condé Nast and Reddit: Building Digital Products for Iconic Brands
Reflections on four years at Condé Nast, leading digital technology for Wired, Vogue, The New Yorker, Reddit, and dozens of other properties.
Online Publishers Association (OPA) Technology Conference
At the Online Publishers Association (OPA) technology conference, co-presented HTML5 with the CTO of New York Times Digital (March 23, 2011). As a regular ...
Akamai and Brightcove Online Video Technology and Strategy Seminar
Rajiv spoke about online video technology and strategy at a seminar and networking event in New York City hosted by Akamai and Brightcove. Other presenters...
Bavarian International School in Germany
Rajiv gave a lecture on Cloud Computing & Social Networks at the Bavarian International School in Germany. (February 5, 2010)
Amazon.com’s AWS Event
Rajiv gave a presentation on Cloud Computing at Amazon.com's AWS Event in NYC. Other presenters included Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com. (October 19, 2...
Video Technology: Eye on the Future hosted by The Center for Communication
Rajiv spoke at the seminar titled Video Technology: Eye on the Future hosted by The Center for Communication (cencom.org). The Center for Communication is ...
Ars Technica Interview: IT consumerization in the enterprise
My colleague Jon Stokes who is Senior Editor and co-founder at Ars Technica interviewed me on the topic of IT consumerization, and about the shifting bound...
American City Business Journals’ Digital Fast Forward Conference
At the American City Business Journals' Digital Fast Forward conference in Charlotte, Rajiv spoke about digital technology & organization in media & publis...
Management & Technical Career Growth Tracks
Described here is one way to enable technologists to grow their careers in your organization while still allowing them to focus on the type of work they ar...
Congratulatory letter from Cox on being featured in the 2005 Annual Report
’s Conferences
Rajiv spoke on CTO panels at the Newspaper Association of America (NAA)'s conferences. In NEXPO 2002 and 2003, he spoke about technology and business topics ...