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The Economist’s 10-month web R&D project may have ended without having brought any output to market, but the publisher is now sifting throug… Read more »
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Pearson Finally Sells Les Echos To LVMH For $347 Million; Opposition From Journalists
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Industry Moves: Ex-FT.com Director Moves To Hotels.com
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@ FOBM: Economist.com Maintains Free/Subscription Mix
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Pearson Touts Exam Paper Marking Division As Next Sell-Off
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FT.com Ringfences Free Stories For Link Followers, Aiming To Drive Subs
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FT Ad Revenues Rise, Providing Platform For New Model
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Economist Launching 160-Year Online Archive, Guardian Archive Costs £8 A Day
The Economist is the latest publication to try to monetise the ass off its long tail – it’s launched The Economist Historical Archive online… Read more »
Economist Weathering Online Storm, Thanks To Print Reliance
In an interview with today’s Observer, The Economist editor John Micklethwaite suggests his news magazine has weathered the internet storm s… Read more »
@ AOP: Mobile Publishers Disagree, Find Different Fortunes On Open Web
- FT.com: FT.com is now getting 97 percent of its mobile traffic from off-portal sources, having almost entirely ditched relationships with… Read more »
Interview: Ien Cheng, FT.com Publisher: A Pay Wall ‘Third Way’
FT.com has announced it will partially drop its £99 ($110) pay wall in favour of a free, ad-supported model for users who read up to 30 sto… Read more »
FT.com Drops Pay Wall For Casual Readers; Subs Remain For Others
From our new site paidContent:UK: Change is coming in FT.com’s business model. The site will on Monday announce it will allow consumers to r… Read more »
FT.com Drops Pay Wall For Casual Readers; Subs Remain For Others
Change is coming in FT.com’s business model. The site will on Monday announce it will allow consumers to read articles or data up to 30 time… Read more »
Pearson Looks To Sell Half Of FT German Edition; Refocusing On English Assets?
German magazine group Spiegel, which publishes the Der Spiegel business magazine, is talking with publisher Pearson about buying out its 50… Read more »
Economist Shows Signs Of Intelligent Life As Luxury Ad Budgets Rise
The Economist has published the first edition of its high-end Intelligent Life magazine on its new quarterly schedule. The re-designed publi… Read more »
Pearson Faces Mighty NWS-DJ, Reuters-Thomson Challenge, Analysts Reckon
What a difference a takeover makes. Analysts revised their verdict on Financial Times parent Pearson (NYSE:PSO) today, with the company like… Read more »
Barrons.com Breaks 100,000 In Paid Online Subscriptions
A reminder that life goes on at Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) while the buyout by News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) wends its way to a close … DJ announced to… Read more »
If WSJ.com Went Free: Effect on FT and FT.com; CEO Ridding Allays Concerns
By Rafat Ali
Last week we mentioned a research note by Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anmuth, who did a detailed number-crunching and analysis of the scena… Read more »
Bloomberg To Add 10 Percent More Reporters On Strong Terminal Sales
Putting into context some fears of editorial cuts at Pearson, if it buys Dow Jones, Bloomberg says it will hire 240 journalists this year to… Read more »
DJ Bidding Dance: Expected Savings With Pearson; Analysts Skeptical; Tom Wolfe Plus John Updike
By Rafat Ali
Lots of commentary and speculation following the “news” this weekend that Pearson is mulling a joint bid on Dow Jones, along with GE. Among… Read more »
FT CEO Explains Price Hike; Wants Net-like Relationships With Print Subs
Some interesting explanations on last week’s news of a single-copy price hike at the FT (and WSJ) from FT CEO John Ridding in today’s Indepe… Read more »
GE To Decide Soon On DJ Bid; Joint Bid With Pearson Possible With Bancrofts Retaining Minority
By Rafat Ali
On Friday we reported on Pearson looking at bidding for Dow Jones, and that it may tie-up with GE, which has also been looking at the possib… Read more »
NWS-DJ: Pearson Looking For Possible Partner To Challenge News Corp. Bid; Still A ‘Longshot’: WSJ
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Pearson PLC, publisher of FT (the other most expensive daily business newspaper), is trying to pul… Read more »
WSJ, FT Up Print Prices; Sign Of Business Information Confidence
Indicating confidence readers will still pay for accurate business information despite the availability of the internet, Wall Street Journal… Read more »
UK Online Upgrades: Sky; FT.com and Reuters Websites
By Rafat Ali
The season of website and service upgrades in UK:
– Sky says it will do a massive overhaul of its digital offer. The new portal, possibly l… Read more »
Speculation Rife on FT's Potential Sale
By Rafat Ali
Lots of speculation in the UK market earlier today about Financial Times and its parent Pearson finally being put up for sale, though the or… Read more »
FT Editor Mulls ‘High Stakes’ Of The Digital Evolution
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
The Financial Times’ transition to a multimedia operation was a painful but necessary process, said editor Lionel Barber. The move cost 50 j… Read more »
FT.com To Drop Subscription? Pearson CEO Ponders
By Rafat Ali
I mentioned FT’s earnings this morning…in a follow up story, Guardian reports that parent company Pearson’s CEO Marjorie Scardino admitted… Read more »
Earnings: FT In $9.3 Million Profits; FT.com Has 86K Subs
By Rafat Ali
The Financial Times has made a $9.34 million profit in the first half of the year, reversing a $3.74 million loss in the first half last yea… Read more »
FT To Axe 50 As Online-Print Merger Happens
By Rafat Ali
(reg. req.) The Financial Times plans to cut 10% (about 50) of its 500-strong editorial staff as it merges its online and newsprint operatio… Read more »
FT Adds Layers To Online Reading
FT recently announced it was changing the distribution pattern for third-party distribution by adding 12 hours to what is now a current 12 h… Read more »
FT Delays Stories To Third Parties By 24 Hours; FT.com Defensive Move
By Rafat Ali
Which is probably a smart strategy in the longer term: syndication revenues through services like Factiva and LexisNexis can only grow so mu… Read more »
Shakeup At FT; New CEO of FT.com
By Rafat Ali
High time this happened: Financial Times owner Pearson has done a management shakeup at the newspaper. Its finance director Rona Fairhead wi… Read more »
Industry Moves: Montgomery Promoted To Editor Of FT.com
James Montgomery moves from U.S. news editor to editor of FT.com, succeeding Simon Targett, who had only been on the job since last summer.… Read more »
FT.com Conducts an Open-House
By Rafat Ali
FT.com is taking cues from rival WSJ.com and opening up its subscription site for a week…along with it, the site will also launch new regu… Read more »
Earnings: FT.com’s Ad Revs Up 27 Percent in 2005
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Pearson has announced a 27% increase in ad revenues for its online operation FT.com as part of strong preliminary 2005 financial results for… Read more »
FT.com Valued At About $350 Million
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There are suitors aplenty for Financial Times, if the parent company bites: Terry Smith, head of UK moneybroking giant Collins Stewart Tulle… Read more »
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