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At The Wall Street Journal, for example, a team looking to increase subscribers’ active days found that playing a puzzle had a more dramatic impact on reader retention than other actions the team had been promoting to new subscribers, such as subscribing to an email newsletter or downloading the Journal’s app. Encouraging readers to develop a crossword habit may help. Publishers have found that the number of active days a reader has on their site is a telling metric for determining whether or not they’ll continue a subscription. And, given that 80 percent of The New Yorker’s revenue is reader-generated, that’s exactly what the publication is hoping readers will do.įebruary 14, 2020But can crossword puzzles really affect a news organization’s bottom line? There’s evidence to suggest the answer is yes. Unlike The New York Times, which offers a standalone subscription to its crossword and other games, the only way to gain unfettered access to the New Yorker’s puzzles is to subscribe to everything. The “Subscribe” page highlights the crossword, noting that every option includes access to “, including the online archive and crossword puzzles.” Readers who have not subscribed can view the home page, Goings On About Town listings, and a limited number of articles (including puzzles) per month a digital-only subscription costs $100/year. The crossword puzzles, like the magazine’s longform journalism, fiction, and other work, live behind a metered paywall online. And, just last month, The New Yorker began investing some ink in the endeavor by announcing they’ll print a full-page puzzle in every issue of the print magazine. (Here’s one entitled “ Crossword Puzzles with a Side of Millennial Socialism” and another with tips on how to solve those tricky British-style cryptic crosswords.) The team is growing, and now includes fact-checkers and a dedicated copy editor. at the end of 2019 and has rolled out a number of digital goodies for solvers since, including the social distancing-compliant Partner Mode, a newsletter, special holiday puzzles, a way to play on the New Yorker Today app, and behind-the-scenes videos. The magazine launched its first-ever Puzzles & Games Dept. What these have in common? CROSSWORD CLUES.Ĭlues, to be specific, in The New Yorker’s thrice-weekly crossword puzzle. One with four legs and many hands? CARD TABLE. ![]() The act of throwing money around to resolve an issue? COIN TOSS. 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The influx of immigrants from other parts of the empire stimulated the local economy and led to the significant growth of the Christian communities in Acre and Nazareth and the Jewish community in Tiberias. Zahir's tolerance of religious minorities encouraged Christian and Jewish immigration to his domain. The aforementioned factors, along with Zahir's flexible taxation policies and his battlefield reputation made him popular among the local peasantry. For much of his rule, he oversaw a relatively efficient administration and maintained domestic security, although he faced and suppressed several rebellions by his sons. The wealth Zahir accumulated through monopolizing Palestine's cotton and olive oil trade to Europe financed his sheikhdom. The Ottoman Navy attacked his Acre stronghold in the summer of 1775 and he was killed outside of its walls shortly after. By then, however, Ali Bey had been killed, the Ottomans entered into a truce with the Russians, and the Ottoman imperial government felt secure enough to check Zahir's power. At the peak of his power in 1774, Zahir's rule extended from Beirut to Gaza and included the Jabal Amil and Jabal Ajlun regions. In 1771, in alliance with Ali Bey al-Kabir of the Egypt Eyalet and with backing from Russia, Zahir captured Sidon, while Ali Bey's forces conquered Damascus, both acts in open defiance of the Ottoman sultan. He was often supported in these confrontations by the Shia Muslim clans of Jabal Amil. Zahir withstood sieges and assaults by the Ottoman governors of Damascus, who attempted to limit or eliminate his influence. ![]() In the mid-1760s, he reestablished the port town of Haifa nearby. He fortified Acre, and the city became the center of the cotton trade between Palestine and Europe. 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