Gawker Media Founder Nick Denton captured the essence of his Q&A at our recent paidContent 2011 conference when he facetiously cited a six-y… Read more »
Larry Kramer, the author of C-Scape: Navigating the Rapidly Changing Worlds of Media and Business, is the founder and former CEO of CBS (NYS… Read more »
This week the New York Times launched its paywall in Canada, announcing its rollout to the rest of the world on March 28. We’ve since analyz… Read more »
Media buyers don’t expect the New York Times’ online ad revenue, which was up double digits last year, to take a hit from the company’s new… Read more »
Bill Grueskin is following The New York Times digital pay plans as the former managing editor of the subscription-based Wall Street Journal… Read more »
United Business Media (LSE: UBM) CEO David Levin has taken many publishers to task for trying to shoehorn their existing publications in to… Read more »
The folks at The Daily aren’t ready to talk real numbers but they are upset enough about one set making the rounds now to try to set the rec… Read more »
The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) has a FAQ about its new digital subscription plans announced today but we thought it was worth the time to pu… Read more »
German magazine publishers aim to lobby the G8 nations to defend them against Apple’s subscription policy, while an editors group has spun o… Read more »
I’ve seen a lot of wishful thinking recently, some of it here, that the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) brass will wake up and suddenly decide no… Read more »
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Sky News became the latest News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) property to go gung-ho about tablets on Wednesday when it launched its first iPad app for f… Read more »
In spite of some glitches that resulted in a lengthier free trial run, Greg Clayman says The Daily still had a successful launch and “hundre… Read more »
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has launched its latest celebrity backed site, the Tyra Banks’ beauty and fashion blog typeF this week, but the com… Read more »
Online is a half-billion-pound business for UK newspapers, paidContent:UK has concluded, after researching key industry financial metrics. H… Read more »
Andrew Golis, who was key to Yahoo’s efforts to ramp up the amount of original content it produces, is leaving the company. Golis is heading… Read more »
Revolutions in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world were already helping the live-news-streaming service Livestation grow its audience. Now… Read more »
Some positive news for newspapers hoping to build digital subscription streams: A national phone survey shows that 30 percent of mobile news… Read more »
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Two of the most prominent and well-funded non-profit news startups will use nearly $1 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundatio… Read more »
The Slate Group, The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Co.’s online-only unit house Slate.com, The Root.com, and ForeignPolicy.com, says that comb… Read more »
AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong said from the stage at paidContent 2011 that the company was within days of closing its $315 million deal… Read more »
Despite Spencer Reiss’ best efforts, The Daily publisher Greg Clayman would not say how many people had downloaded News Corp.’s publication… Read more »
In a very amiable dialogue about the nature of “internet success,” Gawker founder Nick Denton told Reuters’ finance blogger Felix Salmon tha… Read more »
A few months after taking a $10.5 million funding round, sports blog network SB Nation has made two acquisitions that will broaden its cover… Read more »
The unveiling of iPad 2 has publishers both excited and vexed about the possibilities and hurdles involved with creating a “digital storefro… Read more »
UK regional and local newspapers claim their online audience has grown by nearly a quarter in the last year – but digital revenue isn’t nece… Read more »
In late January, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said it was working to ensure its search results were not overridden with links to spammy sites and so-… Read more »
News Corp.’s The Daily launched Feb. 2 with a two-week free trial sponsored by Verizon, ostensibly enough time to give potential subscribers… Read more »
Washington DC-area hyperlocal news site TBD is getting rid of most of its staff following the handover of operations to Allbritton Communica… Read more »
Until lately, Google’s somewhat shaky retort to claims it’s destroying journalism was fourfold – First Click Free, Fast Flip, Living Stories… Read more »
Reporting its first quarterly results since going public in late January, Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) said its sales during its fourth quarter… Read more »
Remember the great Free Vs Paid debate of 2010? Here, NPR reporter David Folkenflik digs in to Times Newspapers’ strategy… Read more »
Tien Tzuo is CEO of Zuora, a subscription-billing company based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was the chief strategy officer and chief m… Read more »
To Angelenos, there can be no more horrifying news than the launch of yet another tour-bus franchise targeting celebrity hotspots to further… Read more »
Late Monday afternoon, Arianna Huffington tweeted a picture from AOL (NYSE: AOL) headquarters with the note “Valentine’s Day transition meet… Read more »
Tim Armstrong, already the largest individual shareholder in AOL (NYSE: AOL) as well as chairman and CEO, nearly doubled his stake in the co… Read more »
» Social gamer Zynga is looking to raise $250 million in new funding in a deal that could value the three-year-old start-up betwe… Read more »
» As our Staci D. Kramer reported earlier this week, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is starting its multiple magazine-app subscription pla… Read more »
If The Daily launched last Wednesday with breaking news sensibilities and an app that worked It would still have detractors who think it’s t… Read more »
