NYT Gets Deeper Into The ‘Daily Deals’ Space With TimesLimited
The NYT is preparing to debut its own daily deals service called TimesLimited later this month. While a number of newspaper publishers have… Read more »
Frank Rich To Exit NYT Op-Ed Page For New York Magazine
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After more than 30 years at the New York Times, Frank Rich is departing the newspaper to write a column for New York magazine and its websit… Read more »
NYTCo Sells About Group’s UCompare
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With the About Group experiencing some struggles on the revenue front, the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) has decided to sell that unit’… Read more »
With Google’s One Pass, Two More Newspaper Chains Join The Paywall Brigade
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Included in the announcement of Google’s long-expected One Pass paid content system for publishers is news that two more U.S. newspaper cha… Read more »
NYTCo Pins Revenue Decline On ‘Volatile’ Ad Market; About Stumbles
The crucial holiday season saw advertisers pullback from the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) in Q4, as the company pointed to a “volatile advertising mark… Read more »
Clarification: NYT-Backed News.Me Takes Aim At ‘The Daily’
While all eyes are on the launch of News Corp.’s iPad newspaper, The Daily, today, tomorrow’s thoughts are focused on the NYT, which may fi… Read more »
No Way Is Demand Media Really Worth More Than The New York Times
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When Demand Media floated earlier this week it started out at $17 a share, rocketed on first day trading to a high of $24, and even after fa… Read more »
Social News Site Ongo Combines Aggregation And Paywalls
After months of operating in stealth, social news site Ongo, which received $12 million in funding from the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT), Gannett (NYSE… Read more »
@ DLD: Video: Sulzberger: ‘Print Will Be Around A Lot Longer’
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A year after announcing plans to turn on the meters, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. is still trying to convince people the New York Times isn’t goin… Read more »
Report: NYTimes.com’s Metered Paywall To Cost Less Than $20 Per Month
As the world waits for the official word on the price for full web access to the NYTimes.com through the long-awaited metered paywall, Bloom… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.14.11
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» Rupert Murdoch’s long awaited “iPad newspaper” has a name — The Daily — and Poynter’s Damon Kiesow got a first look by checki… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.13.11
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» The day after laying off 47 percent of his staff, MySpace CEO Mike Jones told the rest the social net-turned-social-entertainme… Read more »
A.H. Belo To Put Up A Paywall At Its Flagship Paper
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A.H. Belo (NYSE: AHC) will begin to charge users to access some content on the site of its flagship Dallas Morning News, making the 264,459… Read more »
Nonprofit Start-up Bay Citizen Adds $9.5 Million In Funding
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The Bay Citizen is going public with a new round of funding a little sooner than planned after a column in the rival San Francisco Chronicle… Read more »
Survey: iPad Newspaper Apps Could Slash Print Subscriptions
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Wasn’t the iPad supposed to save print journalism? A Reynolds Journalism Institute survey of 1,600 iPad users this fall says that more than… Read more »
Mail Online Vs NYTimes.com?: Running The Numbers
Having watched the rise of Britain’s Mail Online over the last year, tongues are wagging that, in 2011, it could overtake The New York Times… Read more »
NYTCo: 15 Percent Of NYTimes.com Are ‘Heavy’ Readers – But Will They Pay?
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NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) executives are offering a few more clues about the company’s plans for the metered paywall scheduled for early next year.… Read more »
NYTCo Q4 Preview: Digital Ad Growth Is Slowing
In advance of the company’s appearance at this week’s UBS Media conference, the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) says that digital advertising… Read more »
NYT Lets IHT Go Free For Now On iPad
photo: New Yorok Times' iPad App
The International Herald Tribune, the Paris-based paper bought out by The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) in 2002 and now run as “the internation… Read more »
Harbinger Cuts NYTCo Stake To Under 5 Percent
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Harbinger Capital Partners, which once owned nearly 20 percent of the New York Times Co., has now cut that stake to under five percent, effe… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.12.10
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» As the weeks tick down until the launch of the NYTimes.com metered paywall, the paper is taking a step towards bringing the new… Read more »
NYT Expands DealBook: Adding Video, Reporters And More Print
For the past few months, the Wall Street Journal has mounted a challenge to the New York Times’ metro coverage with its Greater New York sec… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.03.10
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» For the first time last night, the New York Times went live via online video from its newsroom with reports and commentary on t… Read more »
Newspaper Fas-Fax: Newspaper Circ Decline Slows, E-Editions Up 47 Percent
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Increased interest in e-editions wasn’t enough to keep U.S. newspapers from another circ decline but it did help slow the bleeding. Circulat… Read more »
WSJ Doesn’t Buy Into Amazon’s ‘Buy Once, Read Everywhere’ Plans
Earlier this month, I told an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) VP the aspect that bothered me most as a Kindle user was the inability to access my subscr… Read more »
Investor Group Surprises NYT With Interest In Buying The Boston Globe
More than a year after The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) decided the Boston Globe was worth more inside the company than it could make fro… Read more »
Starbucks Digital Network: BYOS (Bring Your Own Screen)
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In early 2006, Howard Schultz talked about the power of having a massive collection of Wi-Fi hotspots, declaring “Starbucks (NSDQ: SBUX) is… Read more »
NYT’s Digital Increase Meets Expectations, But So Do Print Declines
Online advertising now counts for a 27 percent share of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Company’s over all ad revenue, as its web ads rose 14… Read more »
NYT Slaps Micropayment Service Kachingle With Trademark Suit
The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is suing micropayments system Kachingle after the service maintained several of the flagship newspaper’s… Read more »
NYT iPad App Switch Not Telegraphed Well To Users
Our readers know the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Editors’ Choice iPad app has been replaced by a full-scale tablet version but it’s not that… Read more »
NYT Replaces Editors’ Choice iPad App With Full Version — Free For Now
You expected more from The New York Times on the iPad? You’re getting it — and eventually, you’ll have to pay to get all of it. The NYTCo (… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.12.10
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» To promote the launch of its Windows 7 Phone, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is running an ad campaign intended to aim for “average fol… Read more »
New York Times Co. Could Wind Up With Share Of Liverpool Football Club
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In the oddest of twists, the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is on the verge of being part owner of a major UK football club. The publisher s… Read more »
Boston Globe To Start Charging For Online Access
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The Boston Globe will join its sister paper The New York Times in charging for access to some online content beginning next year. The newspa… Read more »
WSJ Says Digital Ad Sales Up 29 Percent
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A week after the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) put out a relatively solid forecast for digital ad sales during the quarter ending this week… Read more »
Social News Startup Ongo Raises $12 Million From Gannett, NYTCo, WaPo
Ongo, a news sharing site currently in stealth mode, has raised $12 million from a trio of major newspaper publishers, USA Today reported. I… Read more »
Video: IHT Editor On Americans Abroad And NYT’s IHT.com
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Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser interviewed the Paris-based International Herald Tribune executive editor Alison Smale, who speaks about the IHT’s en… Read more »
As Quarter Ends, NYTCo Expects Digital Ad Revs To Rise 14 Percent
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Costs will be up a slight 1 or 2 percent for the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) in Q3 as it prepares to launch its metered paywall for the f… Read more »
NYT Partners With Betaworks For An iPad-Based ‘Personalized News Service’
The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) and NYC-based tech and social media incubator Betaworks are working on a new “personalized news service” call… Read more »
In NYT vs WSJ, Murdoch As Shark, A Broadway Dance-Off
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You may have seen these amusing 3D news illustrations from the Far-East lately, like this one depicting Google’s Larry and Sergei as interga… Read more »
