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 [...]

Apr 7, 2011 So, it looks like an intriguing deal. Ford Motors’ Lincoln is subsidizing 100,000 new NYT digital subscriptions. Well, it is an intriguing deal, but it’s more nuanced than it seems, and in that nuance, we see some of the next models for how the digital circulation business and the digital ad business [...]

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 Jim O’Sullivan Thursday, March 31, 2011 Reports of the demise of newspapers may be greatly exaggerated. According to a new Harvard study, the denizens of the digital age — 18-to-29-year-olds — would prefer to get most of their political news about the next presidential campaign from — believe it or not — major national newspapers….more [...]

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 Mallary Jean Tenore Published Mar. 15, 2011 6:34 pm Updated Mar. 16, 2011 9:56 am During a visit to Poynter on Tuesday, Bob Woodward talked about Watergate’s original code name, why he likes his iPad, and the best time of day to access hard-to-reach sources. Below, I’ve highlighted his thoughts on these topics and others. The quotes are drawn [...]

By Tom Rosenstiel and Amy Mitchell of the Project for Excellence in Journalism By several measures, the state of the American news media improved in 2010. After two dreadful years, most sectors of the industry saw revenue begin to recover. With some notable exceptions, cutbacks in newsrooms eased. And while still more talk than action, [...]

MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2011 FreePressMedia and Yahoo! are teaming up to give local advertisers new access to customers via online advertising campaigns targeted at local consumers on BurlingtonFreePress.com and Yahoo! websites. FreePressMedia, which includes the Burlington Free Press and BurlingtonFreePress.com, immediately will begin offering Yahoo! digital inventory as part of its local advertising solutions, President [...]

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

By TESS STYNES New York Times Co. said print advertising sales decreased in the low single digits on a percentage basis last month, though the declines continued to moderate. Meanwhile, digital advertising revenue growth was in the mid-single digits, as solid growth at its news media division was partly offset by softness at About Group. The [...]

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  

The internet guru on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail and how the internet has brought out our creativity – and generosity Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian, Monday 5 July 2010 If you are reading this article on a printed copy of the Guardian, what you have in your hand will, just 15 years [...]

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 [...]

By ANDREW RICE Published: May 10, 2010 Last year, Sam Apple got the idea into his head that what the world needed was a new kind of newspaper. This was, to put it mildly, at odds with the consensus of the marketplace. At the time, several large media companies were in bankruptcy, others were trading at penny-stock [...]

By Martin Langeveld /  March 9  /  12:37 p.m. Google’s economist-in-chief, Hal Varian, was the keynote speaker this morning at the Federal Trade Commission’s second round of hearings on the future of journalism. (The study is entitled “How will journalism survive the internet age?” Round 1 was held in December; transcripts and other material are linked here — scroll down. Not [...]

By YUKARI IWATANI KANE And ETHAN SMITH With the new tablet device that is debuting next week, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry—and expand Apple’s influence and revenue as a content middleman. In developing the device, Apple focused on [...]

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA Taking a step that has tempted and terrified much of the newspaper industry, The New York Times announced on Wednesday that it would charge some frequent readers for access to its Web site — news that drew ample reaction from media analysts and consumers, ranging from enthusiastic to withering…more

Many websites already offer charging options – but few, as Rupert Murdoch seems to suggest, simply lock browsers out Charles Arthur, guardian.co.uk - Wednesday 2 December 2009 23.59 GMT From the hands thrown to cheeks at Rupert Murdoch‘s announcement that he’s looking to put paywalls up around his newspaper properties online, you might think that they’re the unicorns [...]

Let me just say right up front: I did not volunteer to reinvent myself. I was drafted. I wasn’t interested in being another me; I was cool with the me that I was. I was a reporter for  The Washington Post, one of the most respected newspapers in the world. To add icing to my [...]

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 [...]

There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models. As a nerd, I’m excited by the new tech, particularly mobile, including new display systems and pervasive connectivity. However, the tech is secondary, not nearly as important as repairing some current issues with trust and curation.As a news media guy, [...]

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 [...]

By DAVID CARR Published: May 17, 2009 Write about the media long enough and eventually you type your way to your own doorstep. Lately, when I finish an interview, most subjects have a question of their own. “What’s going to happen to The New York Times?” they ask, some plaintively, others pruriently. In the last [...]

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 [...]

Newspaper shuns web and thrives With 2008 drawing to a brutal close on the media beat — bankruptcies, daily newspapers that are no longer daily, magazines that are downsizing into brochures — a little ray of light appeared in my e-mail inbox. It was from a newspaper owner, of all people… more

Newspapers Jettisoning Top Talent to Cut Costs In March 2007, Circuit City came up with a plan to confront softening sales and competition from online and offline retailers: fire the most talented, experienced employees… more

Mr Murdochs recent radio presentation on ABC Australia Rupert Murdoch at heart is a traditional newspaperman. But he sees the wood for the trees. Newspapers will thrive in the 21st century if proprietors fully comprehend what it means to be alive in the era of information… more

Transforming American Newspapers (Part 2) If the major reason for the American daily newspaper industry’s demise were its stories contained too many dangling participles, then the industry could more easily comprehend its situation than instead hearing that the reason was it had violated the Principle of Supply & Demand… more

Transforming American Newspapers (Part 1) Ignorance isn’t bliss to the dying. Witness the pathos of American daily newspaper companies. Most have finally begun to realize that the deterioration of their businesses isn’t cyclical but grave. Yet few, if any, understand why. Almost all grasp for the reasons…more

De Krant: Het wordt nooit meer zoals het was Is lokaal nieuws onmisbaar? Jazeker: veel mensen willen weten waar die rookwolken gister vandaan kwamen, of er een nieuwe weg door hun achtertuin wordt aangelegd, wie er overleden is, wat de aanbiedingen bij de Aldi zijn, welke tandarts weekenddienst heeft en wat voor weer het wordt… [...]

Reluctantly, A Daily Stops It’s Presses, Living Online With print revenue down and online revenue growing, newspaper executives are anticipating the day when big city dailies and national papers will abandon their print versions. That day has arrived in … more