By Megan Garber Some of the most exciting work taking place in The New York Times building is being done on the 28th floor, in the paper’s Research and Development Lab. The group serves essentially as a skunkworks project for a news institution that stands to benefit, financially and otherwise, from creative thinking; as Michael Zimbalist, the Times’ [...]

By Andrew Phelps Can a single app please both casual news readers and news junkies? That’s the question I found myself asking upon rereading that report from a couple weeks ago on iPad users’ reactions to The Daily. The report was put together by knowDigital, a division of market-research firm Coleman Insights, which asked more than 40 iPad owners [...]

By Ken Doctor Here’s how newspapers sell what they do to would-be readers. You can get the whole paper, now sometimes including digital access. We’ll sell you Sunday only, or the weekend, or 7-day, but you have to take our whole paper. That’s what we sell; that’s our one-size-fits-all product. It fit your grandparents and your parents, [...]

by Damon KiesowPublished Apr. 11, 2011 Updated Apr. 12, 2011 Microsoft’s new Bing iPad app, released Thursday, does more than search — it begins to remake the newspaper experience in digital form. The app is not being marketed as a news platform, but journalists should consider it one because it offers a great local information utility for the [...]

By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO Hulu LLC’s subscription video service will surpass one million subscribers in 2011, chief executive Jason Kilar said in a blog post Monday. Mr. Kilar also reiterated that the company is on track to approach $500 million in revenue in 2011, up from $263 million in 2010. Its first-quarter revenue grew 90% from [...]

Only Apple Knows Who’s Subscribing, but They’re Paying for Digital Content By: Nat Ives Published: March 29, 2011 Popular Science magazine sold the 10,000th subscription to its iPad edition sometime on Sunday, nearly six weeks after accepting Apple’s terms for selling subs on its tablet. That’s a speck compared to the title’s nearly 1.2 million print subscriptions, [...]

By Salamander Davoudi Published: March 29 2011 The Times and The Sunday Times had a combined total of 79,000 monthly digital subscribers at the end of February, up almost 60 per cent over the past four months, according to unaudited figures released by News International. The total was up from 50,000 last November and included subscribers [...]

by Helen Lambourne A regional publisher which has scrapped the printing of most of its weekly freesheets and transformed them into e-editions says it has seen a 50pc increase in web traffic in three months.…more

Staci D. Kramer Mar 27, 2011 By now, we were supposed to have clarity about how The New York Times will use a meter to create a digital subscription revenue stream. After all, the plan went into effect in Canada March 17 and is supposed to start rolling out in the United States and globally Monday [...]

By Ken Doctor Digital news business models are playing out on pool tables these days. Break the balls and you have no idea where they’re going or how they’ll impact each other. We’ve got paid content models of varying kinds. We’ve got the new combining “free world” of AOL/Huffington Post+ taking aim at the emerging paid world. [...]

by Erik Sass Huh?  The New York Times is clearly struggling with the whole social media angle of its new online pay-wall — or rather, trying to have its online cake and eat it too. On one hand, the NYT wants heavy users to pay for access to online content, shelling out $15 per month for [...]

Peter Preston The Observer, Sunday 20 March 2011 The New York Times’s model for online charging will no doubt be widely copied. But according to one analyst, print will still be providing 86% of UK newspapers’ revenues even in 2017. So, at long, long last, we have the paywall policy all Americannewspapers – and many [...]

David Kaplan @davidaKaplanMar 18, 2011 11:15 AM ET 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 digital subscription plans. Some even see a scenario where the NYT will be able to charge higher rates—if the newspaper hits the expected number of [...]

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York Published: March 17 2011 The New York Times has launched its long-awaited model for charging for news online, with a “metered” subscription approach that will charge more than some analysts had expected, but ensure that most readers never encounter the paywall. NYTimes.com will become the largest non-financial newspaper to charge at [...]

By APARAJITA SAHA-BUBNA The Wall Street Journal has added 200,000 paying subscribers who access the newspaper via mobile devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPad and Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle. Les Hinton, head of the newspaper’s publisher, Dow Jones & Co., which is owned by News Corp., said Thursday that about 150,000 of the new subscribers were added in the last [...]

By Richard J. Tofel Editor’s Note: Richard J. Tofel is general manager at ProPublica, a Wall Street Journal veteran, and author of a number of books, most recently Eight Weeks in Washington, 1861: Abraham Lincoln and the Hazards of Transition. Here he looks toward a future when search engine optimization has been rendered obsolete by advancing technology — [...]

By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER And STEVEN RUSSOLILLO Warner Bros. will begin offering select movies through Facebook, a move that will enable the social-networking giant to compete in the online movie-rental market. The new offering—which was made by Warner Brothers without explicit assistance from Facebook—puts Facebook Inc. in greater competition with Netflix Inc. and other tech companies vying [...]

The New York Times (NYT) primarily operates in the newspaper business, with ownership of The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, and About.com. It competes for online advertising dollars with hybrid publications like News Corp’s (NWS) The Wall Street Journal as well as internet-based outlets like Yahoo (YHOO), Google (GOOG) and AOL (AOL)…more

Paul Disco 2.3.2011 Stel: je hebt een banketbakker en een bakker in de straat. De een verkoopt taartjes en koek aan de liefhebbers, de ander brood aan iedereen. Ineens maakt de banketbakker bekend dat hij afstapt van het suikerwerk en ook alleen gewoon brood gaat verkopen. Wat denkt u dat er gebeurt? Het lijkt me [...]

Readership for every Danish newspaper is lower in 2010 than in 2009 according to the latest TNS Gallup data (2nd half 2010). MetroXpress is the best-read paper with 429,000 daily readers (489,000 in 2009-II) before Jyllands Posten (389,000 readers in 2010-II)…more  

by Damon KiesowPublished Feb. 4, 2011 10:50 amUpdated Feb. 4, 2011 11:01 am With the unveiling of The Daily, we got our first look at Apple’s new iTunes-based periodical subscription service. The feature has been long awaited by publishers, but its implementation is likely to leave many unsatisfied. To its credit, Apple has made it as easy [...]

Benedict Evans, Enders Analysis Apr 18, 2010 12:00 AM ET The iPad is a beautiful device that offers new ways to consume and interact with content. Newspapers are piling in with paid services that some – like Rupert Murdoch - hope will offset the decline of their print businesses. But, while there is real money to be made here, it [...]

Kantar Media’s Futureproof study of 2,400 adults reveals consumers are more willing to pay one-off charges for digital content than micropayments Rupert Murdoch has put an end to the culture of free by closing News International’s online content behind a paywall, believed to go live within days. The media mogul’s attempt to change consumers’ “online [...]

Lots of papers on a platform would mean lots more traffic – and income. But can we break the dish-the-opposition habit? Peter Preston The Observer, Sunday 27 June 2010 Those of us following the yellow brick road through Mr Murdoch’s imminent Times paywall know exactly what’s coming next. First we signed up for a free month’s [...]

The New York Times - By CLARK HOYT Published: October 31, 2009 IN his autobiography “The Good Times,” Russell Baker described the Times newsroom he joined in 1954 as “comically overstaffed.” Baker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington reporter and columnist, quoted a colleague’s explanation for all the idle reporters playing bridge and working crossword puzzles: Adolph Ochs, [...]

BY JIM SALTER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009 ST. LOUIS — The Hannibal Courier-Post proclaims that it is “Missouri’s oldest daily newspaper, serving since 1838.” But it isn’t quite as daily as it used to be. In February, publisher Jack Whitaker decided to stop printing on Mondays, the day that had the least [...]

Patrick Smith – @psmith - Sep 21, 2009 4:13 AM ET While some continue to talk about charging for online news content, others are busy doing it. The latest member of the paid content club is weekly public affairs magazine The Spectator, which on Thursday removed all current and archive magazine content from its website and launched a campaign to get [...]

How to think about news in the link economy By Peter Osnos The buzz inside Google is overwhelmingly positive about what the company does and how we will all benefit from the results—including the embattled denizens of newspapers and magazines who increasingly see Google as an enabler of their demise. Barely a decade ago, Google received [...]

By E&P Staff Published: July 15, 2009 5:02 PM ET NEW YORK Two newspapers in upstate New York have eliminated one day each from their daily production schedules. On July 6, the Tonawanda News eliminated its Monday edition, moving to a Tuesday-Saturday schedule. The next day, The Journal-Register, of Medina, dropped its Tuesday edition, and [...]

In a year when newspaper cutbacks have made their own headlines, strong evidence of the changing nature of media use in America may be found in a single statistic: Internet users report a large increase in time reading online newspapers, according to the eighth annual Surveying the Digital Future projected conducted by USC Annenberg’s Center [...]

In 1992, the oracle of Omaha predicted the decline of newspapers, magazines, and TV. By Jack Shafer In our Web-obsessed era, some folks—especially folks in the newspaper newsrooms—regard newspapers as victims of the new technology. But back in the mid-1960s, well before the first big Internet pipes were laid, the newspaper was already in crisis. [...]

By Earl J. Wilkinson – INMA The death of the newspaper is one of the great exaggerations of today’s economic downturn. It is a myth being perpetuated by people, companies, and the trade press that serve them that are in seeming cardiac arrest — many of whom have amassed debt beyond their means, possess business [...]