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Earnings: FT Profit Up, Paid Subs Flat, Confident On Ad Outlook
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Interview: Rob Grimshaw, MD, FT.com: New Niches, Pinker Pages, No More Subscribers
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Print Bits: FT Ignites Europe, Johnston Not Selling
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WSJ To Sever Ties With Breakingviews; Selling Its Minority Stake?
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Industry Moves: FT.com Helm Taken By Grimshaw
FT.com is promoting online advertising director Rob Grimshaw to managing director, effectively replacing outgoing managing editor and publis… Read more »
Industry Moves: FT.com ME And Publisher Ien Cheng Quits To Join Google
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FT Sells Stake In Business Standard in India; To Launch Financial Daily With Network 18
By Cerius Shah
Like we predicted on ContentSutra, India’s media firm Network 18 is all set to launch a financial daily in partnership with Financial Times,… Read more »
Industry Moves: FT Promotes CIO Jetha To COO
Financial Times is promoting chief information officer Yasmin Jetha to chief operating officer. It’s not the only sign of an increasing tech… Read more »
FT.com To Give Facebook Students Free Four-Year Subs
FT.com will tomorrow begin giving free subscriptions to college students via Facebook, we can reveal. The news site will launch an app that… Read more »
Earnings: FT.com Subs Up 13 Percent, Ad Outlook Uncertain
FT added 13 percent more digital subscribers in 2007, taking it up to 101,000. In the year it remodeled its subs strategy to let out more fr… Read more »
FT Launching Premium Online Exec Forums; Includes FT.com Subs and Conferences
Certainly among the costliest social networking services to launch till date: The Financial Times is launching a £1,700-a-year (about $3,35… Read more »
FT Launching Premium Online Exec Forums; Includes FT.com Subs and Conferences
Certainly among the costliest social networking services to launch till date: The Financial Times is launching a £1,700-a-year (about $3,35… Read more »
FT Sells Off Rest Of German Edition To Focus On Digital
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) has confirmed the sale of its 50 percent stake in FT Deutschland to Hamburg-based magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, whic… Read more »
FT.com Claims Big Traffic Growth On Access Model Change
The number of people registering with FT.com “went from 200 to 400 a week up to between 15,000 and 17,000 a week” since introducing a new ac… Read more »
Newsprint Bits: Confident FT Hikes Price, Newsquest Takes PA Multimedia, IHT/Reuters Launch
- Newsquest: The UK’s number-two regional news publisher is buying in national news video from the Press Association multimedia wire. The PA… Read more »
Factiva Downplays FT Subscription Fee; Impact From A Free WSJ.com Is Uncertain
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Factiva customers who want continued total access to the FT.com will have to pay for a second, separate subscription, reports our sister sit… Read more »
FT.com Seeks Subs By Asking Factiva Users To Buy New Licence
FT.com may have decided to drop part of its web pay wall in October – but it’s now erecting a new one right through the Factiva aggregator.… Read more »
FT Has Big Hopes With Mergermarket In Competition With WSJ
By Rafat Ali
The Financial Times needs all the luck and gumption it can get, to compete with Wall Street Journal under News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) A Telegraph… Read more »
Reuters To Supply FT.com With News Video
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) will follow up its partnership to produce a branded online/print business news section for the International Herald Tr… Read more »
UK Local Directory Firms: Mapping The Minutiae
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Industry Moves: FT.com Taps Reuters Editor For New Video Head Post; EMI Adds To Board
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- FT.com: Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) Video editor Richard Edgar is leaving to become FT.com’s first ever head of video. He will be responsible fo… Read more »
Industry Moves: Ex-FT.com Director Moves To Hotels.com
The Financial Times’ former director of online publishing, Nigel Pocklington, is leaving to become Hotels.com’s MD for Europe, Middle East a… Read more »
FT.com Ringfences Free Stories For Link Followers, Aiming To Drive Subs
As FT.com embarks on a new business model by partially dropping its pay wall, it’s also partnered with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and 30 other site… Read more »
FT Ad Revenues Rise, Providing Platform For New Model
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@ AOP: Mobile Publishers Disagree, Find Different Fortunes On Open Web
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Interview: Ien Cheng, FT.com Publisher: A Pay Wall ‘Third Way’
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FT.com Drops Pay Wall For Casual Readers; Subs Remain For Others
From our new site paidContent:UK: Change is coming in FT.com’s business model. The site will on Monday announce it will allow consumers to r… Read more »
FT.com Drops Pay Wall For Casual Readers; Subs Remain For Others
Change is coming in FT.com’s business model. The site will on Monday announce it will allow consumers to read articles or data up to 30 time… Read more »
Pearson Looks To Sell Half Of FT German Edition; Refocusing On English Assets?
German magazine group Spiegel, which publishes the Der Spiegel business magazine, is talking with publisher Pearson about buying out its 50… Read more »
Pearson Faces Mighty NWS-DJ, Reuters-Thomson Challenge, Analysts Reckon
What a difference a takeover makes. Analysts revised their verdict on Financial Times parent Pearson (NYSE:PSO) today, with the company like… Read more »
Barrons.com Breaks 100,000 In Paid Online Subscriptions
A reminder that life goes on at Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) while the buyout by News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) wends its way to a close … DJ announced to… Read more »
If WSJ.com Went Free: Effect on FT and FT.com; CEO Ridding Allays Concerns
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Last week we mentioned a research note by Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anmuth, who did a detailed number-crunching and analysis of the scena… Read more »
Bloomberg To Add 10 Percent More Reporters On Strong Terminal Sales
Putting into context some fears of editorial cuts at Pearson, if it buys Dow Jones, Bloomberg says it will hire 240 journalists this year to… Read more »
DJ Bidding Dance: Expected Savings With Pearson; Analysts Skeptical; Tom Wolfe Plus John Updike
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