FT.com Relaunching This Week: Pink Front Page, New Name Target ‘Obsessive’ Users
FT.com will tomorrow roll out the latest installment of its long-term web redesign with a pink front page and a region-specific homepage f… Read more »
More pearson Stories
@ FOBM: Economist’s Rossi: Premium Content May Be Ad Antidote; Kindle Edition Coming
Economist.com took a pass on the free-content phenomenon first time around – now, just as flares and yo-yos came back in to fashion, the pub… Read more »
FT.com Trims Free Stories Back Again, Launches Chat Community
By Patrick Smith
FT.com today launches a user-led chatroom, the first step in a six-month overhaul of the site designed to capitalise on the massive interest… Read more »
{"source":"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/tag\/pearson\/page\/6\/wijax\/b959f4af7e82222223ac4cb50ea2d81d","varname":"wijax_425652d0aa48ffe42d47684f13c1ee12","title_element":"h2","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Ch2%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fh2%3E"}
Advertisement
FT To Make Redundancies, Cut From Research Library: Report
More contraction in the newspaper business – FT will make up to 60 redundant, with librarians and those in the managing editor Dan Bogler’s… Read more »
Earnings: FT Strong Despite Economy, Revenue Up 11 Percent
By Patrick Smith
In times of financial crisis, one of the few things to benefit is the financial media. And that may go some way to explain why Financial Tim… Read more »
Earnings: FT Strong Despite Economy, Revenue Up 11 Percent
By Patrick Smith
In times of financial crisis, one of the few things to benefit is the financial media. And that may go some way to explain why Financial Tim… Read more »
FT CEO: Hoping For Lead In The Bleed
By Rafat Ali
Financial Times CEO John Ridding hopes to build on the gains of the downturn, as its print newsstand sales rose 30 percent in U.S. in Septem… Read more »
Updated: FT.com Subs Rate Trebles In Dark Financial Times
Update: FT.com later told paidContent:UK there had been no increase in premium subs of the kind reported. Page views were 300 percent up Thu… Read more »
@ GIIS: FT.com Boss: Media Should Ape Airlines, Lay Off Our Business Model
FT.com’s MD has called on media commentators to stop questioning the publisher’s online business model – and urged the industry to imitate t… Read more »
FT Overhauls FTChinese.com, Courting Advertisers With Video
FT Group has overhauled FTChinese.com to add videos, a career channel, better search and archiving. It’s aiming for more advertisers in Ch… Read more »
{"source":"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/wijax\/a206c64880c8215b985ab24ebe90eafd","varname":"wijax_d269eebc26af5b39ec3c65bb7948e7ce","title_element":"h2","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Ch2%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fh2%3E"}
Advertisement
Industry Moves: FTChinese.com President Named, ITV’s Kangaroo Departure
– FTChinese.com: Financial Times is upping deputy commercial director Dan Molloy to president of FTChinese.com and Rui, its Chinese lifesty… Read more »
Times, FT Join Indie On Amazon’s Kindle Reader
News International and FT Group have launched The Times and Financial Times on to Amazon’s clunky Kindle e-reader, even though the gadget is… Read more »
Earnings: FT Profit Up, Paid Subs Flat, Confident On Ad Outlook
FT Group profit rose 21 percent to £84 million on 11 percent better revenue of £374 million in the first half of the year, supposedly on d… Read more »
Interview: Rob Grimshaw, MD, FT.com: New Niches, Pinker Pages, No More Subscribers
FT.com has attracted 450,000 registered users since unveiling its new, 30-free-articles model in October – but the number of paying subscrib… Read more »
Print Bits: FT Ignites Europe, Johnston Not Selling
– Ignite: Money-Media, the online news source for the money management industry which FT publisher Pearson (NYSE: PSO) acquired in January,… Read more »
Earnings: Economist.com Users Up 39 Percent, Annual Revenues Up Eight Percent
At three million, Economist.com got 39 percent more unique users in a year that saw eight percent higher revenue. Results for the year to Ma… Read more »
WSJ To Sever Ties With Breakingviews; Selling Its Minority Stake?
By Rafat Ali
The Wall Street Journal, now part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is going to stop carrying the long running Breakingviews daily opinion columns i… Read more »
Industry Moves: FT.com Helm Taken By Grimshaw
FT.com is promoting online advertising director Rob Grimshaw to managing director, effectively replacing outgoing managing editor and publis… Read more »
Industry Moves: FT.com ME And Publisher Ien Cheng Quits To Join Google
By Dianne See Morrison
FT.com managing editor and publisher Ien Cheng, the Financial Times Read more »
Pearson Seeks ‘Add-Ons’, But Shareholders Appear Agitated
FT owner Pearson (NYSE: PSO) is still holding its strategy steady despite consolidation around it in the financial news market. Challenged b… Read more »
Filings Watch: Pearson Bought Money-Media For $64M; Amazon.com’s Withoutabox Purchase: $19M?
By Rafat Ali
Some filings deep-dive this weekend:
– Pearson: According to its annual report, filed with SEC on Friday, Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the parent… Read more »
FT Sells Stake In Business Standard in India; To Launch Financial Daily With Network 18
By Cerius Shah
Like we predicted on ContentSutra, India’s media firm Network 18 is all set to launch a financial daily in partnership with Financial Times,… Read more »
Industry Moves: FT Promotes CIO Jetha To COO
Financial Times is promoting chief information officer Yasmin Jetha to chief operating officer. It’s not the only sign of an increasing tech… Read more »
Industry Moves: Economist CEO Leaving, Replaced By Ex Online Boss
The Economist Group CEO Helen Alexander is leaving the publisher after 23 years to become an adviser to private equity house Bain Capital. H… Read more »
FT.com To Give Facebook Students Free Four-Year Subs
FT.com will tomorrow begin giving free subscriptions to college students via Facebook, we can reveal. The news site will launch an app that… Read more »
Penguin To Test DRM-Free Audio Books
Picking up from yesterday’s Pearson earnings, the company said its Penguin book publisher would follow the decision by Bertelsmann’s Random… Read more »
Earnings: FT.com Subs Up 13 Percent, Ad Outlook Uncertain
FT added 13 percent more digital subscribers in 2007, taking it up to 101,000. In the year it remodeled its subs strategy to let out more fr… Read more »
FT Launching Premium Online Exec Forums; Includes FT.com Subs and Conferences
Certainly among the costliest social networking services to launch till date: The Financial Times is launching a £1,700-a-year (about $3,35… Read more »
FT Launching Premium Online Exec Forums; Includes FT.com Subs and Conferences
Certainly among the costliest social networking services to launch till date: The Financial Times is launching a £1,700-a-year (about $3,35… Read more »
Economist Fails To Win Domain Name From Greenspan ‘Tribute’ Site
File under “You Couldn’t Make It Up”. The Economist magazine, which is online at economist.com, has failed in its bid to win control of the… Read more »
FT Sells Off Rest Of German Edition To Focus On Digital
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) has confirmed the sale of its 50 percent stake in FT Deutschland to Hamburg-based magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, whic… Read more »
FT.com Claims Big Traffic Growth On Access Model Change
The number of people registering with FT.com “went from 200 to 400 a week up to between 15,000 and 17,000 a week” since introducing a new ac… Read more »
Newsprint Bits: Confident FT Hikes Price, Newsquest Takes PA Multimedia, IHT/Reuters Launch
- Newsquest: The UK’s number-two regional news publisher is buying in national news video from the Press Association multimedia wire. The PA… Read more »
Pearson Acquires Money-Media; Targets Money Management Industry
By Joseph Weisenthal
FT publisher Pearson (NYSE: PSO) has acquired Money-Media, an online news source for the money management industry. Terms of the deal were n… Read more »
Economist Ready To Try ‘Social Networking’ Again
Despite a brave R&D project that ended without any concrete output, The Economist may yet start a “social network” for its readers. The maga… Read more »
Factiva Downplays FT Subscription Fee; Impact From A Free WSJ.com Is Uncertain
By David Kaplan
Factiva customers who want continued total access to the FT.com will have to pay for a second, separate subscription, reports our sister sit… Read more »
FT.com Seeks Subs By Asking Factiva Users To Buy New Licence
FT.com may have decided to drop part of its web pay wall in October – but it’s now erecting a new one right through the Factiva aggregator.… Read more »
FT Has Big Hopes With Mergermarket In Competition With WSJ
By Rafat Ali
The Financial Times needs all the luck and gumption it can get, to compete with Wall Street Journal under News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) A Telegraph… Read more »
Reuters To Supply FT.com With News Video
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) will follow up its partnership to produce a branded online/print business news section for the International Herald Tr… Read more »
Earnings: Online Makes Up 17 Percent Of Economist’s Revenues
Economist Group’s online advertising revenue grew 15 percent year-on-year, interim results for the year to September 30 show. That’s not as… Read more »
Follow @paidContent for more stories like this.
You're subscribed to our newsletter. If you'd like, you can update your settings
