NYTimes.com Introduces Self-Serve Ads For Hyperlocal Sites
The NYTimes.com has opened up a self-serve ad system for businesses who want to advertise on its hyperlocal sites. The Local, which consists… Read more »
Newspaper Guild Approves Boston Globe Deal This Time Around
The Boston Globe sale process can start in earnest now that the paper’s largest union finally has agreed to a new deal. Members of the Newsp… Read more »
New York Times Considering Foundation Funding? Not Close To Any Decision
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Is The New York Times considering taking money from foundations to fund its news ops? So says Craig Whitney, AME at the Times, in an intervi… Read more »
NYTCo Execs Tell Staff Company Can Manage $1 Billion Debt
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The pending sale of WQXR-FM for $45 million will help the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) chip away at its $1 billion debt, Arthur Sulzberger… Read more »
New York Times Raises $45 Million With Sale Of WQXR-FM
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The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) continues to pare its assets, this time with the sale of New York City classical music radio station WQXR… Read more »
NYT Tests Online Pay Scenarios On Print Subscribers; Decision By August?
Updated After much internal discussion and tons of outside advice, the New York Times is now asking a constituency that really counts how mu… Read more »
NYT Postpones Deadline for ‘Boston Globe’ Bids
Holding your breath for word that potential buyers have actually submitted bids for the Boston Globe and sister paper Worcester Telegram & G… Read more »
NYT News Service Will Let Members Post Content On Web Before Print
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Even in a digital era, The New York Times News Service has required that member papers use its content in their printed editions before putt… Read more »
paidContent Quick Hits For Sunday
» CQ’s sale to rival Roll Call, part of The Economist Group, seems like a done deal. What will happen after the merger? [Politico… Read more »
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NYT Co: Buy The Globe, Get Worcester Telegram As Well
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) hopes to sell off another New England newspaper, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, as part of a packa… Read more »
NYTCo Memo: May Has Come And Gone, And We’re Still Printing
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The Atlantic’s Michael Hirschorn declared in January that the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is in such dire straits that its printing presses c… Read more »
NYTCo’s Robinson Takes A Swipe At Media Critics, Rejects Sale Rumors
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New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) President and CEO Janet Robinson is fed up with all the rumors and negative reports surrounding the publi… Read more »
Boston Globe, Guild Reach Tentative Agreement; Next Vote Is July 20
The Boston Globe and its largest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, have a tentative agreement that may go over better than the version that… Read more »
Boston Globe Union Sets Date For New Contract Vote — Sans Offer
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Hoping to minimize the pain of a 23 percent pay cut, the Boston Newspaper Guild has set July 20 as the date for a vote on a new contract –… Read more »
Boston Globe, Union Talk For More Than 26 Hours — And It’s Not Enough
Despite 26-plus hours of talk — on top of the endless hours from the last go round — the search continues for a resolution between the Bos… Read more »
Boston Globe Update: Guild, Paper Try To Find Way Back From Abyss
Boston Globe representatives insisted for days that Monday’s meeting between the paper and the Boston Newspaper Guild would be purely inform… Read more »
About.com Bets On Celebrity ‘Experts’ To Boost Profile; Wolfgang Puck Gets His Image Buffed
NYTCo-owned guide site About.com is formalizing the use of celebrities among its 800 “expert authors” who dispense advice on everything from… Read more »
Possible Boston Globe Buyers Emerge But Don’t Hold Your Breath
Live in Boston, have access to at least $100 million or so and like a good challenge? You, too, could be a possible bidder for the Boston Gl… Read more »
Boston Fund Manager Shows Interest In Buying The Boston Globe
A union pension fund manager has emerged as the first public suitor for the Boston Globe. Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. co… Read more »
Daily Show Takes On NYT: ‘Why Is Aged News Better Than Real News?’
No other outlet has had more fun with the “death of newspapers” tune than Comedy Central on The Daily Show and Colbert Report. Wednesday nig… Read more »
Updated: Sulzberger To Globe Reporters: ‘No Alternative’ To 23 Percent Wage Cut
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.’s response to Boston Globe reporters seeking his intervention to ward off a 23 percent wage cut boils down to one wor… Read more »
Costs Slashed, NYT Considers Globe Sale
The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) has hired Goldman Sachs to manage a possible sale of the Boston Globe, according to the paper. The invest… Read more »
NYT: $20 Million Mix Of Concessions, Wage Cuts Saves Globe (For Now)
The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) said Tuesday that it will keep the Boston Globe open despite the Boston Newspaper Guild’s narrow vote aga… Read more »
Boston Globe Guild Calls NYT’s Bluff, Narrowly Rejects Concessions: 277-265
The results are in earlier than expected: members of the Boston Newspaper Guild narrowly rejected a concession package worth $10 million dol… Read more »
