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News Bytes: FT.com’s Studios; Dow Jones Hires; BBC Mag Saved; Student Papers’ Crisis
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Industry Moves: Former FT.com Publisher Leaves Google For Bloomberg
By Joseph Tartakoff
Bloomberg has hired yet another executive with big internet company experience to help it become less dependent on terminal revenue. Ien Che… Read more »
Industry Moves: Former FT.com Publisher Leaves Google For Bloomberg
By Joseph Tartakoff
Bloomberg has hired yet another executive with big Internet company experience to help it become less dependent on terminal revenue. Ien Che… Read more »
ComScore: UK News Sites Still Popular Overseas, FT.com Traffic Down
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Interview: Rob Grimshaw, Publisher, FT.com: Newspapers Must Add Paid Content
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Financial Times To Launch Facsimile Edition In India
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@ FIPP: B2B Sites Shift To Service Platforms; Put Faith In Paid Content
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Earnings: FT.com Grows Subscription Revenues; Pearson’s Outlook Positive
By Patrick Smith
FT.com’s paid content strategy appears to still be paying off as owner Pearson (NYSE: PSO) announces “good growth” in content, subscription… Read more »
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FT.com Looks To Readers For Leader Column Inspiration
By Patrick Smith
Not content with inviting readers to debate in a virtual pub, The Financial Times is now asking them to join senior writers in a kind of dig… Read more »
B2B Media Under Pressure: Emap Results, RBI Savings, Pearson Shares
By Patrick Smith
In theory, business-to-business publishers theoretically better placed to ride out a recession, with business models less reliant on cyclica… Read more »
Print Round-Up: FT Ad Deal; Leigh Property Site; Indie Bids; Dawson; Salford Star
By Patrick Smith
– FT signs Adify deal FT.com has signed a partnership with ad network creator Adify to increase inventory for ad clients through a network… Read more »
Former WSJ.com Editor: What Papers Can–And Can't–Charge For
By Rory Maher
First, free was all the rage among newspapers; now, the pendulum has swung back, and at least some newspaper companies are convinced that th… Read more »
FT's 'Web-Ready' Newsroom Plans: After 80 Layoffs, It's Integration Time
By Patrick Smith
Want to know how the Financial Times will cope without the 80 journalists it is laying off in these finance news-hungry times? We’re at leas… Read more »
FT Launches Semantic News Aggregator Newssift
In a surprise move, FT Group’s FT Search unit has debuted Newssift, a semantic news search tool that indexes and aggregates stories from tho… Read more »
@ FT Digital Media: Newspapers' Digital Biz Models: Guardian, FT, Bloomberg
By Patrick Smith
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Earnings: FT Profits From Premium Content As Online Subs Kick In
Looks like paid content really does work. FT Group profits rose 13 percent to £195 million in 2008 – “as growth of digital and subscription… Read more »
Newspaper Sites' Traffic Up Again, Now Show Us The Money
By Patrick Smith
The monthly ABCe figures don’t give much away about the absolute worth or success of newspaper websites — they only show relative growth… Read more »
FT Aims New Subscription-Only Digital Pub At China Investors
By David Kaplan
The Financial Times is set to launch a new website and e-newsletter called China Confidential next week. The new publication is in keeping w… Read more »
FT Goes One Up On France: Offering 3-Day Work Week and Other Options
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Updated: Papers Struggle To Downsize As FT, Indy Prep For Strike Vote
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FT Sues Blackstone For Sharing Premium Account Info With Multiple Employees
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FT Reboots Mobile: Plans iPhone Apps, Commercial Model Unclear
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FT Staff Protesting Layoffs: ‘We Can’t Take Any More’
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Industry Moves: FT Promotes Zorthian To President Of The Americas
By David Kaplan
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Pearson Expects 20 Percent Year-End Earnings Boost Despite Downturn
By Patrick Smith
FT Group owner Pearson (NYSE: PSO) expects to report a 20 percent growth in EPS in its full-year results in March, ahead of market expectati… Read more »
Industry Moves: Shrimsley New FT.com Ed; Channel 4; Havas Digital
By Patrick Smith
– FT.com: FT news editor Robert Shrimsley (pictured) has been appointed managing editor of the site, taking over from James Montgomery, who… Read more »
Industry Moves: CBSI; FT
– CBSI : Future US exec Simon Whitcombe has joined CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) as VP, games in the the company’s sports, games and music d… Read more »
FT Doing 80 New Layoffs: Online/Print Tie-Ups, Ridding’s Memo
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FT.com’s Move To B2B Publishing Continues With Personalised RSS Feeds
By Patrick Smith
FT.com is reaffirming its commitment to the B2B side of its business model by allowing corporate subscribers to create their own search-base… Read more »
Updated: FT To Do Some Buyouts; Salary Freeze; The Memo
By Rafat Ali
The Pink One will pass out some pink slips, though more in form of buyouts than actual layoffs, reports Reuters, citing an internal memo sen… Read more »
Updated: FT To Do Some Buyouts; Salary Freeze; The Memo
By Rafat Ali
The Pink One will pass out some pink slips, though more in form of buyouts than actual layoffs, reports Reuters, citing an internal memo sen… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: More Layoffs, BreakingViews, CarDesignNews, Time
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FT Hikes Cover Price Again; Editor Now Sees Readers Migrating From Print
Ever since it decided to retain its online pay wall a year ago, the Financial Times has been telling us its audience is only to happy to pay… Read more »
FT.com Relaunching This Week: Pink Front Page, New Name Target ‘Obsessive’ Users
By Patrick Smith
FT.com will tomorrow roll out the latest installment of its long-term web redesign with a pink front page and a region-specific homepage f… Read more »
FT.com Trims Free Stories Back Again, Launches Chat Community
By Patrick Smith
FT.com today launches a user-led chatroom, the first step in a six-month overhaul of the site designed to capitalise on the massive interest… Read more »
FT To Make Redundancies, Cut From Research Library: Report
More contraction in the newspaper business – FT will make up to 60 redundant, with librarians and those in the managing editor Dan Bogler’s… Read more »
Earnings: FT Strong Despite Economy, Revenue Up 11 Percent
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Earnings: FT Strong Despite Economy, Revenue Up 11 Percent
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