Gannett Misses Earnings Targets On Special Charges, Digital Revenue Up
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. posted lower than expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 after incurring special charges related to workfo… Read more »
The Times And Spotify: Why Pay When Everything’s Free?
I’ll bet The Times sub-editors raised some eyebrows when their business writer Emily Ford filed her piece, Why I’m not paying any more, for… Read more »
Facebook’s Latest Scoop: Thousands Of Journalists Use Subscribe Feature
For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network reveale… Read more »
St. Louis Post Dispatch Publisher Gets OK For Bankruptcy Plan
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A federal judge yesterday gave the thumbs up to a plan that will allow Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) to exit bankruptcy later this month with… Read more »
Mecom To Launch Digital Paywall And Review Future Of 65 Free Titles
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Mecom is to introduce digital pay models across its top newspaper titles, slash costs by €70m and potentially close or sell 65 free titles… Read more »
Research: Professionals With iPads Are Deserting Printed Media
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Stark new research statistics suggest digital replacement of analogue content is now very high amongst tablet owners. Read more »
Interview: News Int. Hacking Scandal Has Spurred Innovation
News International’s recently-appointed digital product director is trying to make the publisher more agile and innovative in digital media… Read more »
Interview: 'No Decision' On Sun Paywall In Absence Of NOTW
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News Of The World’s closure deprived News International of data on which it could have based a decision to introduce digital fees at the UK’… Read more »
UK's Biggest Regional Newspaper Ending Web Fees
The UK’s largest regional newspaper title, the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star, is ending the premium online payment tier it introduced i… Read more »
Updated: In-App Purchases To Overtake Sales From Paid Apps By 2013
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The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money fr… Read more »
North Korea's State Newspaper Launches English Version Online
As the uproar over New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane’s “truth vigilante” question continues, it’s worth noting that North Korea’s… Read more »
Buy A 1-Year Nook NYT Subscription, Get The Nook Free
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In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subs… Read more »
How The FT And NYT Aim To Make Paywalls Pay
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(This version corrects an error in the percentage for the price increase of the FT)
Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a pa… Read more »
NYT's New Replica Edition Is Free For Print Subs, But More Pain Than Perk
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The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) increased the price of its weekday print edition by $0.50 this week, and home delivery subscribers will pay a… Read more »
Updated: Exclusive: AP Branches Out, Adds Pulse To Its Digital Mix
Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. a… Read more »
NewsRight Launches With 29 Publishers; 'Not A Litigation Shop'
Three years after the Associated Press started the News Registry to help publishers track their content online — and make money from reuse… Read more »
Are Newspapers Finally Figuring Out How To Reward Their Best Customers?
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This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers.
One early sig… Read more »
USA Today Becomes Latest Publisher To Embrace Kindle Fire With Custom App
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire continues to draw interest from publishing companies, including ones who have already embraced Android tablets. This ti… Read more »
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Will Launch Metered Paywall
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Starting tomorrow, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel readers who are not print subscribers will have to pay for online access above 20 articles per… Read more »
100 Italian Newspapers Facing Closure
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Up to 100 newspaper titles in Italy are facing closure because of the government’s subsidy cuts – down from €170m a year to €53m (£142/… Read more »
What's Coming In 2012: The Age Of Ubiquity (For Some)
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This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from… Read more »
Research: Internet Is UK's No. 2 News Source, But Only 3.8 Percent Pay
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Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source – but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says. Read more »
NYT Will Sell Regional Papers For $143 Million
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The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) reached an agreement to sell its Regional Media Group, which consists of 16 newspapers and some other… Read more »
Mobile News Consumption Is Highest In UK
Nearly 10 percent of traffic to UK newspaper websites comes from non-computer devices — that’s the highest in the world, according to comSc… Read more »
News Corp. To Give Sunday Times The Free Treatment For Christmas This Year
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Last year, News International made The Times and The Sun newspapers free on Christmas and used the opportunity to promote their respective i… Read more »
New York Times CEO Walks With $15 Million
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The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) today continued its recent penchant for making the news as well as reporting it. New details are emerging abo… Read more »
News Corp.'s Sun Wins Appeal: Video On News Sites Won't Be Regulated As VOD
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications re… Read more »
News Of The World Publisher Settles Seven Phone-Hacking Claims
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News International said it had settled seven privacy claims against News Group Newspapers, the publisher of the now-defunct News of the Worl… Read more »
New York Times Selling Regional Papers To Halifax Media Group
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The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is selling its 15 regional newspapers to the Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Media Group, according to repo… Read more »
Why Not A Reverse Pay Meter?
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As I ponder the future of The New York Times, it occurred to me that its pay meter could be exactly reversed. I’ll also tell you why this wo… Read more »
Amazon Includes Circular In Weekend Newspapers
Among the Target, Best Buy and Radio Shack ads bundled with my Saturday New York Times this morning is a surprise: an 8-page circular from A… Read more »
More Digital-First Downsizing: The Guardian's Print Edition Shrinks Again
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We’ve been covering already how the Guardian’s digital-first strategy has resulted in some sections of the printed newspaper shrinking. Toda… Read more »
Analyst: Downturn And Intransigence Pushing French Papers To Web, Oblivion
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Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has this remarkable and brutal story of how France’s rickety news business, which relies heavily on state subsidy, is ab… Read more »
Judge Allows Auction Of Righthaven Copyright Assets
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Righthaven, a firm that made a business out of suing bloggers for posting newspaper articles, could be finished once and for all. Read more »
Axel Springer Becomes Industry's Latest Newsstand And Flipboard Clone
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The latest Flipboard-esque print-like tablet aggregator comes from the publisher of the most read newspaper in the west. Read more »
Is There A Business Model To Support Some Of The Great New Curation Tools?
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I love talking about the things I enjoy using. The emerging ecosystem in which a bunch of smart people curate long form journalism is defini… Read more »
El Huffington Post: Arianna Goes To Spain With El Pais Partnership
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The news aggregating behemoth Huffington Post is continuing its march into new markets: the next stop is Spain, where the site will partner… Read more »
New York Times Expands Into Freemium Apps With 'Election 2012'
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As it has done on its website, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is experimenting with a mix of free and paid content through its standalone ne… Read more »
Chicago Sun-Times Papers Add Metered Paywalls — But Not For Roger Ebert
Chicago’s second-largest daily newspaper, the Sun-Times, and its 39 affiliated suburban newspapers will all start charging for online conten… Read more »
From Leanback To Stand-Up, iPad's Flipboard Flips To Phone
After demonstrating how tablets trump smartphones and PCs for leisurely and long-form reading, iPad’s new wave of magazine-like content aggr… Read more »
