First Look: New Times Pay-For Websites
Here is a sneak preview of the upcoming new The Times and Sunday Times websites, which will relaunch in May and will be paid-only from June.… Read more »
Times’ New Pay Sites: £1 A Day, £2 A Week, Starting June
After months of silence, News Corp.’s UK wing News International has put some details on its plans to turn Times Online paid-only, in a big… Read more »
News Int. Got Just £700k In PropertyFinder Sale
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Rebekah Brooks’ News International wrote off £17.8 million from its investment in REA UK, the joint holding company of PropertyFinder, befo… Read more »
@ CMS2010: A Dose Of Wolff: Rupe’s Mad As Hell, Newspapers Are Over
Nothing like a good, hard dose of scathing reality to scare the hell out of a media audience. Michael Wolff – the Vanity Fair columnist, New… Read more »
Times Online About To Preview Its Paywall Content
By Stephen Brook: The start of the Times Online paywall is imminent, with a special preview about to launch.
News International chief execu… Read more »
Rebekah Brooks Sits In James Murdoch’s Seat On PA Board
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Former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks, now News International CEO, is continuing her rise up the publisher’s ranks – she’s replacing James Murdoc… Read more »
Times Online Blocks Media Monitor Meltwater
Public relations news monitor Meltwater, which is still refusing to pay UK newspapers for crawling their websites, has now been blocked from… Read more »
Murdoch May Knock Google, But His Papers Still Cultivate It
Mr Murdoch may have vowed to remove News Corp (NYSE: NWS) stories from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) – but not all his footsoldiers are necessarily on… Read more »
Do The Robot: How Publishers Dodge The Spiders
Content protectionism is heating up. After Rupert Murdoch last year complained about sites that “steal” News Corp (NYSE: NWS) stories, his U… Read more »
Murdoch Paper Blocks UK Aggregator Before Paywall Goes Up
An interesting development in the battle over free content… Times Online, Rupert Murdoch’s flagship quality UK paper, has blocked UK web a… Read more »
2009 ABCe Review: Times Got Stuck On Road To Paywall
Rupert Murdoch issued the dictate that all his news sites will go paid in 2010. This might be one reason why…
By this November, Times Onl… Read more »
BBCWW CEO: Murdoch’s Paywall ‘A Good Idea’
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By Stephen Brook: The BBC Worldwide chief executive, John Smith, has become the first executive at the corporation to support Rupert Murdoch… Read more »
News Int. At Bing’s Place: Pay-For Times Will Innovate To Differentiate
The Times must meet the “commercial necessity” to innovate before raising the paywall next year, say Times Media’s digital development head… Read more »
Google’s Groundhog Day: No, We’re Not Stealing Your News
Toward the end of a week in which the paywalls debate has been skewed in to a cartoon Murdoch-vs-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) war that doesn’t necess… Read more »
thelondonpaper Editor In Times Exec Role; Bebo VP To Mydeco; Wired Publisher; Adify
–The Times: Three months after the closure of News International’s thelondonpaper, its editor Stefano Hatfield has a new job as “head of ve… Read more »
News International Offloading Globrix Stake To Founders
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News International’s exit from the online property search market continues apace. After selling PropertyFinder, of which it owned half, to Z… Read more »
Newspapers Courting Gadget Lovers? There’s An Ad For That
Is News Corp (NYSE: NWS) taking on Apple, as well as Google, as it looks to reassert the value of its newspaper content?
This brilliant p… Read more »
More Numbers Stacking Up Against Newspaper Paywall
Another week, another paid content survey. Actually, media law firm Olswang’s meaty Convergence 2009 report is far broader than that, but we… Read more »
Robert On Channel 4 News: On Microsoft’s Pitch For News
Channel 4 News thought enough of the reports that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is trying to tempt newspapers away from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to r… Read more »
Big News Bucks Unlikely From Bing? Journalism Could Be The Loser
The reports say Microsoft is offering to pay newspaper publishers for indexing their stories, if Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is blocked from doing t… Read more »
News Int. Database Has 20 Million Customers, ARPU Up To £600
By Sarah Hartley: A third of the UK population – around 20 million people – have a direct relationship with News International thanks to the… Read more »
Young Murdoch Sees Smaller Role For Newspapers, Welcomes Smaller Online Audience
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By Roy Greenslade: James Murdoch’s speech to investors in Barcelona (via Reuters) yesterday revealed the direction that News Corporation (NY… Read more »
Before The Paywall, News Int. Revamps MySun Social Features
News International’s Sun Online is beefing up its social network MySun with the kind of interaction features you would find on a genuine,… Read more »
Has The Times Got It Right With Its Online Charging Plan?
By Steve Busfield: Bloggers, the Twitterati and web users everywhere are united: Rupert Murdoch, and now his sidekick James Harding, are ju… Read more »
More Details: Times Online Charges Start In Spring, For Weekdays And Sunday Spin-Off; Site Relaunch
Earlier reporting of Times editor James Harding’s comments to Tuesday’s Society of Editors conference said that one of the paper’s anticipat… Read more »
UK’s Times Online’s Paid Plans: Charging For ’24-Hour Access To Digital Edition’
By Chris Tryhorn: James Harding, the editor of the Times, today gave the clearest indication yet of how News International is going to start… Read more »
Murdoch Must Turn Fleet Street In To Quality Street If He Want Us To Pay
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By John Naughton: Rupert Murdoch’s declaration, in an interview with Sky News, that he was thinking of barring Google’s search engine from i… Read more »
Print Round-Up: Bondholders Back INM Refinancing; Times Comments Increase; Newsquest Video Ads
– Independent News & Media: The Indy publisher has won backing from bondholders for its ambitious refinancing plan that will see them swap… Read more »
Updated: News International’s Ads Crash Improving, Paywall Plan Delayed?
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Amongst News Corp.’s July-to-September earnings: “The U.K. newspaper group reported lower first quarter operating income contributions compa… Read more »
IPA: Advertisers Unsatisifed By Newspaper Sites’ Sales Efforts
In ad-funded media, bang-for-buck is everything. But online newspapers are doing worse and worse at satisfying advertisers than rival digita… Read more »
Murdoch Vs Greig: A Free Vs Paid Face-Off; Who’s Right?
photo: London Evening Standard
Time for Geordie Greig and Rupert Murdoch to exchange glances, as they head in pass in opposite directions on the free-paid highway…
Lond… Read more »
News Aggregator Calls On Newspapers To End Legal Action
If you receive legal threats from an an entire industry, you could just ask them to stop. At least, that’s what one news aggregator has done… Read more »
