Times Tests iPad Disaggregation With One-Off Eureka Edition
The Times and Sunday Times had always intended to launch more niche pay-for digital products than just their eponymous websites and iPad app… Read more »
News Corp’s Paywall Is About News Corp, Not The Times
Round about the same time as it makes a bid to acquire the whole of BskyB, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) has also erected a paywall around the Times… Read more »
0.5 Percent Of Times Online Readers Have Converted To Paid
Many observers cite five percent as an industry benchmark for proportion of paying customers against free users in a freemium service enviro… Read more »
Times’ Audience Numbers Struggle, Subscriptions Offer Hope
Since News International relaunched The Times websites in June with a new paid model, I have refrained from much of the second-guessing and… Read more »
UK Times’ Paywall Numbers: 105,000 Sales Since Summer, 50k Subs
After months of onlookers’ speculation and second-guessing using third-party traffic metrics, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) has finally released the… Read more »
Paid-For Content Requires A Focused Approach From Newspapers
Conventional wisdom has it that the internet is killing newspapers. Paid-for circulations are relentlessly down across most of the market wh… Read more »
Nielsen: 362,000 Monthly Users For News Corp.’s Times Paywall Content
News International’s silence on subscriber numbers for Times and Sunday Times online content continues, three and a half months after the pa… Read more »
Nielsen: 362,000 Monthly Users For Times And Sunday Times Paywall Content
News International’s silence on subscriber numbers for Times and Sunday Times online content continues, three and a half months after the pa… Read more »
Murdoch Wakes Up From Dream Of Leading News Industry’s Digital Aggregation
photo: AP Photo / Virginia Mayo
The news industry is not yet ready to introduce digital charging on News Corp.’s terms, nor on its turf.
The publisher may be right in the… Read more »
News Of The World’s Digital Editor On Going Paid
photo: News International
News Corp.’s UK Sunday tabloid has introduced web fees. Digital editor Rachel Richardson explained the philosophy in a webchat with journali… Read more »
News Corp’s News Of The World Goes Paid With A Focused Site, Mobile Payment
With its phone hacking scandal continuing to dominate coverage of News Corp.’s mass-market UK Sunday tabloid, it’s little surprise that the… Read more »
British Media Join Forces Against Murdoch Takeover Of BSkyB
Fleet Street’s highly factionalised newspaper industry today set aside historic differences to join forces in an unprecedented assault again… Read more »
On Mobile & iPad: Sun’s Celebs Sub, Times Unifying Price, FT In Chinese
The Sun has released an iPhone and Android app for its Bizarre-branded entertainment coverage. Costing £1.19 for 30 days and, thereafter, “… Read more »
News Group’s iPad Exec Leaving The Company
David McAdam, the executive who was involved in the delivery of the iPad edition of The Sun newspaper, is leaving News International, he say… Read more »
Columbus Dispatch Signs On To News Corp. Digital Plans; UK Pubs Balking
photo: Triborough
A few more details are seeping out about News Corp.’s Project Alesia initiative to create new digital products for its own outlets and for o… Read more »
NOTW.co.uk £1.99-A-Month? Good Luck With That
If the sceptics were sceptical that The Times could successfully charge online readers, just wait until its Sunday stablemate goes the same… Read more »
Times Launching Web Notifications Dashboard, TV Ad For Paid Pitch
I often find it confusing when people charge The Times with having introduced reader fees without having launched a service that really take… Read more »
News Corp Calls On Sun Online Editor For iPad Project
photo: UK AOP
Pete Picton, long-time editor of the Sun Online website in the UK, is leaving London to join parent News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) in New York.
Sun… Read more »
Broken NOTW.co.uk Is A Premonition Of Life Behind Its Wall
It’s the biggest news day the News Of The World has had in some time – two “exclusive” sports stories, one with allegations about Wayne Roon… Read more »
Zach Leonard Named Independent And London Evening Standard Digital Chief
photo: AOP
By Josh Halliday: The former digital media publisher of Times Newspapers, Zach Leonard, has been appointed as the new managing director of d… Read more »
Murdoch’s Times Misses A Third Month Of iPad Income
If editions on tablets like iPad are the “game-changer” which may help “transform” newspapers, as Rupert Murdoch put it, then Murdoch and hi… Read more »
Murdoch’s News Of The World Paid Online By October?
We always knew the rest of News International’s portfolio would follow The Times and Sunday Times in starting to charge reader fees online.… Read more »
Why Newspapers Need People Like Rupert Murdoch
By Roy Greenslade: In his latest sally against Rupert Murdoch, his biographer Michael Wolff argues that the News Corporation chief has never… Read more »
News Corp. Planning New U.S. Consumer News Title On Tablets
photo: Sky News
We knew Rupert Murdoch was enamored with tablets like iPad. Turns out, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). is such a big fan, it’s planning to launch a n… Read more »
Times Puts Some Ads Outside The Wall And On iPad As Web Display Reduces
Though they are often cast as distinct business models, advertising and paid content are not necessarily mutually exclusive – or are they?… Read more »
Video: The Times’ Effective iPad Infographics
photo: Applied Works
The Times’ infographics are great in print, but imagine what they could be online.
Times Newspapers has commissioned design agency Applied… Read more »
UK Times’ Paid Take-Up ‘Very Encouraging’, Murdoch Says
In recent weeks, eager, pessimistic analyses have deployed various mathematical alchemies to declare News International’s new online strateg… Read more »
MySpace Ad Dip Drags Down News Corp’s Digital Media Group
photo: Triborough
News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) blamed “lower search and advertising revenues at MySpace” for higher Q4 and full-year operating losses in its digital… Read more »
June ABCe: Is Telegraph.co.uk Benefiting From A Times Effect?
Is this the chart that shows us who’s benefiting from The Times’ paid website strategy… ? Read more »
Heather Brooke Comes Out Batting For Paid Times
What will the free-web pundits and anti-paywall brigadiers do when one of their own online poster girls comes out in favour of paid content?… Read more »
The Times Gives iPad Readers Another Free Month
Times Newspapers in the UK is giving its early iPad customers a free one-month subscription for the second time in as many months, in an att… Read more »
Times’ Paid Model: The Unofficial Numbers Come In
The Times’ paid model is just two weeks old but, still, a number of stats came through this weekend – none of them from the horse’s mouth…… Read more »
The Sun Shuts Its Internet Radio Station
By John Plunkett and Mark Sweney: The Sun has pulled the plug on its Jon Gaunt-fronted internet radio show SunTalk after just over a year.… Read more »
Times’ 18th Century Paywall: Better Than Stale Fish
If you thought The Times’ recent marketing messages behind its paid online strategy – essentially: you get what you pay for – had historical… Read more »
Zach Leonard Quits News International
By Mark Sweney: Zach Leonard, a former senior executive at ft.com and digital media publisher of Times Newspapers, has left News Internation… Read more »
Confirmed: News Int. Picks Lewis To Integrate Workflow
photo: CC Busters
Fifty minutes after Guardian.co.uk reported the former Telegraph editor’s imminent appointment at News International, the News Corp (NSDQ: N… Read more »
Publishers Need Popcorn, Not Paywalls
photo: Francesco Rachello
Publishers across the world will be keenly scrutinizing the response to The Times Read more »
Will Lewis ‘In Talks’ To Join News International
photo: CC Busters
By Roy Greenslade: It comes as no surprise to read that Will Lewis, the former Daily Telegraph editor, is engaged in talks with News Interna… Read more »
How Much Money Could The Times’ Paywall Bring In?
For all the scepticism about The Timeses’ paywalls, one must properly define what “success” would be for the project. Murdoch is not trying… Read more »
A Tale Of Two Strategies On Times’ Pay Day
On the day The Times and Sunday Times start requiring payments for their new websites, The Guardian has devoted its top above-the-fold promo… Read more »
