RR Donnelley Continues Digital Expansion With Purchase Of LibreDigital
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Another interesting digital acquisition by R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., the Chicago publishing services company that picked up Steve Brill an… Read more »
Daily Mail Proxy Site IstyOsty Goes Down After Cease And Desist Order
The Daily Mail is more than happy for people to share links to articles from its site — it’s an important part of it maintaining its positi… Read more »
NYTimes.com Opens Research Project Beta620 To The Public
The NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) is rolling out a “new features” site beta620 to the public in a bid to solicit more involvement on the site’s fe… Read more »
Our Guide To E-Singles
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E-singles are one of the hottest new publishing trends–with everyone from David Baldacci and Jodi Picoult to Byliner and Slate testing them… Read more »
McClatchy Profits Fall Amid Industrywide Declines
photo: Sac Chef, Brian Bentzen
By now, investors ought to be used to The McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s consistent drift of revenue and net income declines since it retur… Read more »
Who Is Randall Smith And Why Is He Buying Up Newspaper Companies?
Even in the close-mouthed world of hedge fund investment, Randall Smith, the principal of Alden Global Capital, gives new meaning to the eup… Read more »
About.com Vet Darline Jean Promoted To CEO; Will Report To Nisenholtz
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is making some personnel shifts at its About Group unit once again with the promotion of CFO Darline… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-25-11
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» Research In Motion to lay off about 2,000 employees, some 10% of global workforce (paidContent; Marketwatch)
» Lett… Read more »
NYT’s Nisenholtz: ‘We’re Not Naive About Google’
A revealing bit of conversation at the end of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) earnings call between an analyst, digital head Martin Nisenholt… Read more »
NYT’s Robinson: Advertising On NYT iPad App Sold Out Through Q3
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With the NYTimes.com’s metered paywall having reached 1 million subs (281,000 paid) in Q2, and plans for the Boston.com paywall underway, Ne… Read more »
NYT Ended Q2 With More Than 1 Million Digital Subs; 281,000 Paid
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For those tracking the success of the NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) meter that started ticking in March, the New York Times says it ended the seco… Read more »
NYTCo Swings To Loss; Digital Rises Double Digits, About Continues To Fall
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In addition to seeing its advertising revenues continue to decrease due in part to the weak economy, The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) swun… Read more »
Video: David Carr & Stephen Colbert On Painted Harlots, Murdoch And More
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New York Times (NYSE: NYT) media writer and David Carr, appearing now in theaters via documentary Page One, hit the big time on TV Tuesday n… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-20-11
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» James and Rupert Murdoch Have Lunch At Parliament: A Grilling And Some Pie (paidContent)
» News International ‘Deli… Read more »
Video: NYTimes.com In 1 Year, 12,000 Screenshots, 330 Seconds
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For all the media nerds out there: Phillip Mendonça-Vieira of okayfail.com spliced together a video showing about 12,000 screenshots of the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-14-11
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» Swedish freemium music service Spotify is finally live in the U.S. Invite-only access and subscriptions started this morning. (… Read more »
NYT On The ‘Psychology Of Sharing’: E-Mail Still Rules
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When the New York Times first began talking about creating a metered paywall for its website last year, the company was quick to note that s… Read more »
Mid-Year Media Stock Review: Content Trumped Tech in First Half of 2011
Turns out content was king during the first half of 2011, as CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast/NBCU (NSDQ: CMCSA), and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) posted s… Read more »
Murdoch At The Center Of The Story — But Not In Control
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For a man who’s spent his entire life in the media business and understands it as well as anybody who’s ever lived, Rupert Murdoch is quite… Read more »
Updated: Kindle and Nook NYTimes.com Subscribers Finally Get Digital Access
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Over three months after announcing that Kindle New York Times subscribers would “soon” also have free access to NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-29-11
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» Not so square anymore: Dorsey’s payment startup gets $100 million, valued at $1 billion (paidContent)
» Animoto rai… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-28-11
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» Don’t Stop Playing Grand Theft Auto, Kids-The Supreme Court’s Got Your Back (paidContent)
» New Study Shows E-Reade… Read more »
New York Post Blocks iPad Access Via Safari To Sell Subscriptions
photo: Staci D. Kramer/via NYP's Make Your Own Cover
It must have sounded like a great idea to someone at News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) at the time: “Hey, I know how we can sell more subscriptions thro… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-14-11: Lodsys; Ericsson/Telcordia; Skype/Comcast; iTunes
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) settle their patent dispute; two more companies… Read more »
NYT’s Keller To Resign; ‘Time Has Come To Step Down’; Abramson Promoted
Bill Keller, The New York Times executive editor who steered the paper for eight years following the Jayson Blair scandal, a severe recessio… Read more »
NYT Discounts iPad Access By 80 Percent For ‘Lincoln’ Subs
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The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is pulling out the stops to build a base during the first year of its digital subscriptions. The latest:… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-19-11
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» Our paidContent Mobile Conference: Here’s What Happened (paidContent)
» Here’s an interesting debate: “This Is Your… Read more »
@ pcMobile: Media R&D Teams Need Freedom, Flexibility
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Research and development is challenged when media companies try to protect their existing businesses instead of moving forward. And Sara Ohr… Read more »
Primedia Sold To PE Firm For $525 Million
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Primedia (NYSE: PRM), the big print and online real estate listings company, has been sold to PE firm TPG Capital for $525 million, includin… Read more »
NYTCo’s Nisenholtz On Fixing About.com: It’s All About The Guides
Last week, following three consecutive quarters of declining revenues at its About Group unit, the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) decided it… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-12-11
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» Four months after the FCC approved the merger between Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and NBC Universal, *Meredith* Attwell Baker, one of… Read more »
Post-Paywall, NYT Share Of Newspaper Web Traffic Drops
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The New York Times’ share of total page views to newspaper websites dropped by its largest margin in more than a year in April, the first fu… Read more »
How A ‘Business Class’ And ‘Economy Class’ For News Sites Would Look
Victor Wong is CEO of PaperG, an ad-tech company that provides online advertising platforms for local/hyperlocal publishers.
Oliver Reiche… Read more »
About Group CEO Irvine Out; NYTCo’s Nisenholtz Will Run Unit
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)… Read more »
NYT’s Nisenholtz Calls Reported 300,000 Digital Sub Goal ‘Inaccurate’
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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 Ni… Read more »
Fas-Fax: Major Newspaper E-Editions Circ Rose 20 Percent
It looks like the combination of the iPad, Kindle, iPhone and Android is quickly having a positive impact on newspaper e-editions, as the Au… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-29-11
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» A Right Royal Opportunity: The Big Wedding In Digital Media (paidContent)
» The iPhone Location-Tracking Issue Won’… Read more »
McClatchy Fails To Escape Downward Trends; Pruitt Reverses View On Paywalls
photo: Sac Chef, Brian Bentzen
While the advertising recovery continues to hold on despite remaining economic weakness, the newspaper industry appears to be in danger of f… Read more »
A Tale Of Two Timeses: A New York Meter, A London Wall
They may share both a name and new online fees, but onlookers shouldn’t confuse the new access models of The New York Times and Britain’s Th… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-22-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc. (NSDQ… Read more »
