A revealing bit of conversation at the end of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) earnings call between an analyst, digital head Martin Nisenholtz and CEO Janet Robinson about Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and the About.com response to the change in search algorithms that hit About, among others.

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.

Courtesy of my colleague Robert Andrews, I tuned into a replay of a BBC interview with New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) digital head Martin Nisenholtz—only to hear a jaw dropper when interviewer Steve Hewlett mentioned a first-year target of 300,000 digital subscriptions. “Inaccurate,” Nisenholtz replied. “I don’t know where…

By now, we were supposed to have clarity about how The New York Times will use a meter to create a digital subscription revenue stream. After all, the plan went into effect in Canada March 17 and is supposed to start rolling out in the United States and globally Monday…

As the NYTimes.com prepares to unveil the full details for its metered paywall—in the words of CEO Janet Robinson, all will be revealed “sometime soon,” but not during its Q4 earnings call—analysts had some questions about the value of its participation in subscription-based news aggregator Ongo, which launched last week.

Martin Nisenholtz, the SVP for digital operations at The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), delivered the keynote address at the Wharton School of Business’ “Future of Publishing” conference this afternoon. Here’s his speech, in which he talks at length about the importance of engagement on the web: Thank you.…

For nearly 40 minutes, top executives from The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) took questions from interviewer Staci D. Kramer, co-editor and EVP of ContentNext Media, and participants in paidContent 2010. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., chairman and publisher; Janet Robinson, president and CEO; and Martin Nisenholtz, SVP-digital operations, knew the…

The big story the past few months on the subject of paid content is the NYTCo’s announcement that it would pursue a metered model for its website. Our Staci D. Kramer put the basic question to top NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) execs during the first afternoon session at paidContent2010, which is…

For the past few days, we’ve been filling you in on some of the panels at our first namesake paidContent 2010 conference on Friday, Feb. 19 at TheTimesCenter. We’re also featuring four Q&As with industry leaders from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), MediaVest USA and The New York…

When we decided to present paidContent 2010: Discussing the Economics of Content on Feb. 19 in New York, we knew it was going to be topical and that we would be programming in real time. What we didn’t realize then—or when we picked TheTimesCenter as a location—is just how real…

The Robert Thomson quote machine was in full force during the obligatory Web 2.0 Summit look at the future of journalism. Federated Media’s John Battelle moderated the often chippy session featuring WSJ top editor Robert Thomson; Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau; New York Times digital head Martin Nisenholtz; and designated…

Folks at The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) continue to think deep thoughts about making money online without disrupting the traffic needed for advertising. The latest public mention comes from digital head Martin Nisenholtz at a conference Tuesday, where he said “mobile offers a better opportunity for paid content,”…

It’s Martin Nisenholtz’s turn answering questions for the NYTimes.com feature “Talk to The Times,” and the SVP of digital operations for The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) has already scaled the pay wall and the company clearly isn’t done with the notion of pay to read. But Nisenholtz isn’t…

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…