Late last year, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) relaunched its tech blog to add more reporters and more video—in hopes of pulling in more ad revenue. That followed an even larger buildup of its business and finance blog, Deal Book. Now, the company will be giving the same treatment…

Higher online circulation was a small bright spot in an otherwise gloomy earnings report for the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), which is still looking for a CEO who can implement a comprehensive digital strategy.

Last week, following three consecutive quarters of declining revenues at its About Group unit, the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) decided it was time for a change at the top and dismissed CEO Cella Irvine. Instead of a direct replacement, Martin Nisenholtz, the NYTSVP of digital operations who engineered…

After three years in the position—and three straight quarters of decline, Cella Irvine is no longer CEO of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.‘s About Group. She is being replaced by Martin Nisenholtz, the company’s SVP of digital operations.

NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) guide site About.com is laying off 22 staffers, or about 10 percent of its workforce, Reuters reported. The layoffs are spread across ad sales, client services, marketing and editorial. After another quarter of disappointing revenue numbers, About.com instituted a pay freeze and reduced travel outlays, aside from…

We’ve heard the chatter about the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) possibly selling About.com ... let’s start by admitting that what makes sense to me and what makes sense to the people running the New York Times Company doesn’t always dovetail. That said, it’s hard to find any scenario,…

Scott Meyer stepped down last February as About.com CEO. Since then, the New York Times Co (NYSE: NYT). unit has been run by NYTCo’s top digital exec Martin Nisenholtz with Ron McCoy handling day-to-day operations. Now the company has gone outside for a successor: Cella Irvine, most recently chief administrative…

paidContent has learned that health content vet Marjorie Martin is leaving About.com Health, where she has been SVP and GM, for Waterfront Media. The company is creating a position for her—the titles are the same, I’m told—SVP-GM—but the situations are different. Waterfront Media, which just this week announced Doug McCormick…

Scott Meyer, the CEO of About.com, part of New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), is leaving by next week, our sources say, and has been confirmed by the company. His last day will be Thursday next week. No replacement is being named now. I spoke briefly to Meyer today, and…

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), in the middle of a fight with its activist investors, has filed its annual report 10-K with SEC, and not much in it’s on the digital side, except some points about its focus last year and this year. It alludes to its broad…

Breaking out About.com’s Q4 results from the overall New York Times Company report today ... About.com revenues hit $30.7 million, up 26.8 percent from $24.2 million in Q406. As was the case with the overall NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) numbers, though, these results are skewed by an extra week in fiscal…

A rumor cropped up on SAI earlier today about New York Times (NYSE: NYT) hiring a banker to look for options for About.com, which of course surprised us based on what we knew: and as we suspected, the rumor is “horsesh*t” according to a top-level source. There, that gets settled.…

We’ve been hearing about About.com’s launch in China for a while now, and looks like it has finally launched. The New York Times-owned online guide network has launched its Chinese language site and calling is Abang.com. The site is fully owned and funded by New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Company,…

New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) filed its 10-Q with SEC today, and some details about a small acquisition About.com in March: it bought UCompareHealthCare.com, a health care ratings (doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, specialty centers) , search and info site…the price was not disclosed then but in the filing, it…

You’re reading it here first ... NYTCO’s About.com has acquired UCompareHealthCare.com (UCHC), a health care ratings (doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, specialty centers) , search and info site. Consumers get access to some layers of info free; UCHC charges corporate and healthcare providers for services. The company was founded in 2004…

About.com is adding a weight-loss site to its portfolio. The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) announced this morning that it has acquired Calorie-Count.com from AeroDiet.com. No terms are being disclosed. Founded in 2003, the site, which includes various weight-tracking tools, had 464,108 users in August, producing 24 million pages…