Writing Marketplace Helium Raises $10 Million More
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Writing community Helium has raised another $10 million in funding, the company tells us. Third-party publishers post writing assignments on… Read more »
Google News And The Coverage Of Bin Laden
Krishna Bharat is the founder and head of Google News and a Distinguished Research Scientist at Google (NSDQ: GOOG). He can also be followed… Read more »
As If The Switch From AOL News To HuffPo Isn’t Confusing Enough
*AOL* News, consistently among the top news sites, is making way for The Huffington Post, a victim of the $315 million acquisition of the y… Read more »
Taptu Launching Tablet-Optimized News Reader App For Android
At a time when Android tablets are having a tough time carving out a spot in an iPad-dominated world, Taptu has decided that it is ready to… Read more »
IAC’s CityGrid Buys Remaining Stake In Social Media Analyzer BuzzLabs
IAC’s local advertising network CityGrid Media has acquired the remaining stake in social media analyzer BuzzLabs as it looks to provide add… 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 »
Citizen Journalism Site Allvoices Sold To Digital Marketer Datran
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Citizen journalism site Allvoices has been sold to digital marketer Datran Media. The deal seems like an an odd tie-up, considering Datran i… Read more »
WSJ Creates Web-Based Subscription Service For CFOs
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The Wall Street Journal is drilling down on niche audiences and is now selling subscriptions to a web-based news service aimed at chief fina… Read more »
Reuters Aims ‘Live Stream’ Video Service At News Site Partners
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Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is officially launching an online service offering live video access to breaking and scheduled news events to outside pu… Read more »
Infographic: How Print Vs. Online News Consumption Compares
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Can online news revenue ever come close to print revenue? Scout Analytics looked at the differences in user behavior in print and online and… Read more »
Zite Has A New CEO — And A Response To Cease & Desist Demands
A shuffle at Zite as the startup regroups following publishers’ negative reactions to its personalized magazine iPad app. Advisor Mark Johns… 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 »
Google News Gets Some More Personalization Features
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News will now highlight stories for users based on their behavior on the site. The update comes nine months after Google… Read more »
New York Times: More Than 100,000 Digital Subs In First Weeks of Paywall
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The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) says it has more than 100,000 paid digital subscribers in the first three weeks of its metered paywall. That… Read more »
Here’s Why America Is Vital To UK Newspapers
Efforts by titles like Guardian.co.uk and Mail Online to gain U.S. audiences are not just hubristic attempts at conquering, Beatles-style, A… Read more »
Updated: AOL Vet Ruffolo Joining ABC News To Head Digital
In a surprising move, AOL (NYSE: AOL) vet Joe Ruffolo has been picked by Ben Sherwood as the new SVP of ABC (NYSE: DIS) News Digital, paidCo… Read more »
Chart: The Battle For Global News Supremacy
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To the competition between NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) and HuffingtonPost.com, add two British challengers… Read more »
Digital Head Paul Slavin Leaving ABC News
The clock has been ticking for Paul Slavin at ABC (NYSE: DIS) News since it was clear that he wouldn’t get the top job following David Westi… Read more »
Video: How The New York Times Is Pitching The Meter On TV
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In the weeks since the NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) meter started clicking, we’ve written about the challenges of perception and the millions bei… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-08-11
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» Sony (NYSE: SNE) slashes PlayStation Portable prices by 24 percent in Europe to boost adoption. (Bloomberg)
» Ganne… Read more »
Slovakia Is About To Introduce Wide-Ranging Paid Content
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Nine of Slovakia’s main media operators are about to introduce a shared “paywall” service.
Its three national broadsheet newspapers, a tabl… Read more »
@ AADigital: Arianna: Paywalls Only Work For Special Content, ‘Weird Porn’
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Life is pretty good at AOL (NYSE: AOL) these days, including the use of three “resting rooms” that the newsroom has dubbed “NapQuest,” Arian… Read more »
@ AADigital: ‘The Daily’s’ Clayman: You Can Ask, But We’re Not Talking Subs Numbers
AdAge’s Nat Ives began his chat with The Daily’s Greg Clayman by pressing him on recent questions about subscriber numbers. Clayman wouldn’t… Read more »
New York Times Paywall Cost: More Like $25 Million
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Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. insists a $40 million estimate for building New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.’s pay scheme is “vastly wrong”. But that’s… Read more »
New NYTimes.com Promo Borrows From Print Marketing: 50 Percent Off
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In a new promo that went to some NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) registered users today, the New York Times is offering 26 weeks of digital access f… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-06-11
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» Satellite television company Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) Corp won an auction for video rental chain Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) Inc o… Read more »
Sulzberger: $40 Million Estimate For Paywall Cost Is ‘Vastly Wrong’
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Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) spent $40 million or more to build the digital paywall that we… Read more »
Examiner.com To Offer Incentive Pay For Meeting Quality Content Guidelines
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Hyperlocal network Examiner.com has often been frustrated by being lumped in with the so-called “content farms.” So, over the past year, it… Read more »
SB Nation Wins Tech Publishing Fantasy Draft; Signs Engadget Team
We have an answer to the tech publishing world’s version of And Then There Were None: the core team formerly known as Engadget has surfaced… Read more »
The Tulsa World Will Try A Paywall (Again)
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Four days after the New York Times rolled out its metered paywall system, the Tulsa World, a 93,558-circulation daily in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is… Read more »
How UBM’s ‘Project Caxton’ Brainstorms Content Strategy
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Right now, almost all United Business Media’s magazine websites are free. And, although the B2B publisher wants to extract more money from t… Read more »
The Consumer In Me Likes Zite; The Producer?
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Well, that was quick. About a month after Zite launched its “personalized iPad magazine” a slew of big-name publishers slapped the appmaker… Read more »
UK Times Claims 79,000 Digital Subscribers
Frequently besmirched since it started charging online eight month ago, News International has, as it promised it would, issued a second set… Read more »
New York Times Digital Subscriptions: The Unofficial FAQ Updated
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The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) has a FAQ about its new digital subscription plans but we thought it was worth the time to put together our o… Read more »
Kindle Compromise: E-Reader Subs Will Get NYTimes.com Access
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The three-tiered NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) digital pay plan launched today left e-reader subs out of the various bundles but a reverse twist w… Read more »
Mail On iPad Next Week As A&N Seeks Balance In Digital Subs
A&N Media aims to grow digital to a quarter of its revenue by 2016, by adding a range of new subscription options and tilting away from adve… Read more »
The Fix Launches Aiming For Health Content Niche: Rehab News
Maer Roshan, the founder of the gossip mag and site Radar, has debuted his new project, an online news magazine called The Fix. The site is… Read more »
Price Tag For Journalism Online Could Go As High As $45 Million
RR Donnelley execs aren’t talking — neither are Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz, at least about deal details — but paidContent has learned… Read more »
Brill, Crovitz & Co. Sell Journalism Online To RR Donnelly
That was fast. Just shy of two years after launch, Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery Jr. have sold their “make journalism pay” bus… Read more »
WSJ Launching Single-Issue Downloads For iPad
Looking to get more subscribers for its iPad app, The Wall Street Journal will start selling single-issue digital versions of its morning pa… Read more »
