Martin Nisenholtz is a senior advisor for The New York Times Company and an adjunct associate professor at the Columbia Journalism School. He was senior vice president of Digital Operations for The New York Times Company from 2005-2012. He was the founding leader for nytimes.com in 1995 and chief executive of New York Times Digital from 1999-2005. Martin founded the Online Publishers Association and the Interactive Marketing Group at Ogilvy & Mather. Martin began his career as a research scientist and assistant professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA from Penn’s Annenberg School. His research focused on the future of quality journalism and journalists by examining current models, experiments and entrepreneurs, with a particular focus on The New York Times.
Riptide: Digital Disruption of the News Business
September 9, 2013 – A panel discussion with Tim Armstrong, AOL; Caroline Little, Newspaper Association of America; Arthur Sulzberger Jr., The New York Times. Moderated by former Shorenstein Center Fellows John Huey, Martin Nisenholtz and Paul Sagan. Watch the video: About the Project: The Riptide project was conceived and executed at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy by three Shorenstein Center Fellows during the Spring 2013