About.com is in free fall. The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) revealed yesterday that its network of information sites suffered a 67% drop in profits and that revenues had fallen by a quarter.

News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) has appointed Lex Fenwick as the CEO of Dow Jones & Company, filling the position left open following Les Hinton’s resignation in July.

Late last year, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) relaunched its tech blog to add more reporters and more video—in hopes of pulling in more ad revenue. That followed an even larger buildup of its business and finance blog, Deal Book. Now, the company will be giving the same treatment…

Higher online circulation was a small bright spot in an otherwise gloomy earnings report for the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), which is still looking for a CEO who can implement a comprehensive digital strategy.

The Village Voice is giving up on a scheme to force rivals to pay for permission to use the phrase “best of.”

Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. posted lower than expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 after incurring special charges related to workforce restructuring and asset write-downs. A report also showed that its newspaper empire continues to struggle but that its digital business is up 11 percent for the year.

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 the weekend…

For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using…

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 a new debt structure. The plan will not disrupt the rights of share holders, employees and most creditors.

Mecom is to introduce digital pay models across its top newspaper titles, slash costs by €70m and potentially close or sell 65 free titles, following a wide-ranging strategic review by new chief executive Tom Toumazis.

Stark new research statistics suggest digital replacement of analogue content is now very high amongst tablet owners.

News International’s recently-appointed digital product director is trying to make the publisher more agile and innovative in digital media - and the phone hacking scandal in which the company is embroiled may even have helped the effort.

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’s most popular newspaper.

The UK’s largest regional newspaper title, the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star, is ending the premium online payment tier it introduced in April 2011, whilst introducing updated paid tablet and smartphone editions.

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 from those free apps. New research out today predicts that in-app purchases will, in fact, become the most dominant way that app developers will…

As the uproar over New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane’s “truth vigilante” question continues, it’s worth noting that North Korea’s official newspaper, Rodong Singmun, launched an English-language digital version this week. The home page includes a large picture of Kim Jong Un inspecting a construction site and headlines such…

In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It’s the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription.

(This version corrects an error in the percentage for the price increase of the FT) Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a paywall of sorts and closely monitoring what everyone else is doing. In almost every news company, execs are morosely watching advertising projections and finding numbers that…

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 an additional $0.30 to $0.60 per week. With higher prices come a small new perk for home delivery subscribers to the NYT, Boston Globe and International…