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…

The championship of the online newspaper world changed hands the other day. The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) (as measured by comScore (NSDQ: SCOR), currently the most fashionable collector of digital evidence extant) had 44.8m unique visitors in December, while our own dear Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) had 45.3m. Manhattan’s…

CNN has become a prime-time ratings afterthought in the cable news business it started three decades ago, as Fox (NSDQ: NWS) News continues to dominate a traditional television realm mostly supported by older viewers. But online and on mobile, the tables are turned.

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…

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.

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 Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL) is partnering with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso for the launch this year of an Italian edition, paidContent has learned. The partnership, to be announced today, follows a pattern already in place for the French edition debuting Monday and for the Spanish edition due to…

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.

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…

Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s ruling Communist Party, has filed to float its People’s Daily Online website in Shanghai to raise 527 million yuan ($83.4 million).

Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the unrelated departure of the site’s managing editor, Nico Pitney. We spoke to Paul earlier about the social-media focused startup that he plans to launch next,…

Starting Friday, The Guardian, a stalwart of free content, will find out just how many people will pay to read its news on tablets.

(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…

This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers. One early sign of this shift was the 2010 launch of paywalls for the London Times and Sunday Times. These involved no new strategy; however, the newspaper…

Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source - but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says.

Nearly 10 percent of traffic to UK newspaper websites comes from non-computer devices—that’s the highest in the world, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Device Essentials research in Ofcom’s International Communications Market Report 2011.

Claiming it was a name “that, frankly, we never really loved,” Lisa Belkin—the former editor of New York Times (NYSE: NYT) parenting blog “Motherlode,” and the new editor of the Huffington Post’s similarly named (and NYT-contested) parenting blog “Parentlode”—announced that the Huffington Post will change Parentlode’s name to one decided…