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Industry Calendar

5月 2012
28
Memorial Day
Holiday
6月 2012
7-9
Association of Alternative Newsmedia
AAN's 35th Annual Convention
Detroit, MI
27
BIA/Kelsey
Mobile Local Media San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
7月 2012
4
Independence Day
Holiday
27-12
Summer Olympics
Holiday

Net Essentials

Roger Ailes Regrets 'Scum' Comment About NYT
The Daily Beast, May 23, 2012, 8:05 AM EDT
NYT Public Editor Brisbane To Leave In Sept.
The Washington Post, May 21, 2012, 3:57 PM EDT
NYT Subs Should Offset Ad Losses By 2014
All Things Digital, May 14, 2012, 3:19 PM EDT
In the near future, The New York Times' growing subscriber base will make up for its shrinking ad business. That will happen in the middle of 2014, says Barclays analyst Kannan Venkateshwar. Link | Add comment
NYT Out Of Sports Biz, Sells Off Fenway Shares
PaidContent, May 14, 2012, 1:53 PM EDT
Curating NYT A Good Idea But Not For Ombud
Poynter, May 10, 2012, 7:48 AM EDT
About 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane announced that his assistant would start curating the Times' best long-form journalism each day, posting links to @NYTlongreads. A couple of hours and three long-form stories later, the curation ended. Link | Add comment
Paywalled Aggregator Ongo Closes Doors
Nieman Journalism Lab, May 9, 2012, 8:27 AM EDT
The year-old subscription aggregation startup Ongo — backed by The New York Times, The Washington Post and Gannett (at a reported investment of $4 million each) — struggled to find a way to charge readers who have free alternatives. Link | Add comment
NYT Journos Demand End To Contract Negotiations
Huffington Post, May 8, 2012, 3:17 PM EDT
NYT Lays Off 50 Non-Newsroom Staffers
The New York Times, May 4, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT
NYT Staffers Protest Contract Negotiations
Huffington Post, Apr 26, 2012, 3:49 PM EDT
NYT Launches Social Ad Program Ricochet
NetNewsCheck, Apr 26, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT
The new service allows brands to link to New York Times articles and creates a unique Web address that binds the brand's advertising to those articles for a set period of time. Full Story | Add comment
Commentary
Should NYT Charge For Early News Access?
GigaOM, Apr 25, 2012, 8:25 AM EDT
Mathew Ingram answers Reuters' Felix Salmon's idea that The New York Times should charge for early access to some stories: "One of the things that bothers me about this idea is that I think there is still some kind of public-service or public-policy value in journalism, and especially the news — I don’t think it is just another commodity that should be designed to make as much money as possible." Link | Add comment
Nisenholtz: Too Many Ways To Get Info Now
News.me, Apr 24, 2012, 3:28 PM EDT
Martin Nisenholtz, former senior VP of digital at The New York Times, on how the state of news: "Part of the problem is that there are just so many ways of experiencing information now. The barriers to creating services are pretty low. As a professional in this area, I use every service because I need to see every service, but that’s different from having something really turn me on." Link | Add comment
Could NYT Make Money From Its Scoops?
Reuters Blog, Apr 24, 2012, 3:01 PM EDT
Felix Salmon: "I’m not suggesting that the New York Times Company should start buying out-of-the-money put options on Mexican corporates in advance of its own stories. But how much would hedge funds pay to be able to see the NYT’s big investigative stories during the trading day prior to the appearance of the story?" Link | Add comment
Commentary
The New York Times Co. In 2015
Columbia Journalism Review, Apr 20, 2012, 3:15 PM EDT
Ryan Chittum: "Right now, for the first time in a long time, the company isn’t bleeding to death and it has added a fast-growing revenue stream to a stable, slow-growing one. But if print ads start tumbling 20% a year again all of a sudden, all bets are off." Link | Add comment
NYT Quarterly report
NY Times' Digital Ad Rev Falls 10.3% In Q1
Reuters, Apr 19, 2012, 2:18 PM EDT
Advertising revenue for The New York Times dropped 8.1% during the first quarter of 2012, while digital advertising revenue fell 10.3%. The Times' bottom line was also hurt by a revenue drop at the company's About.com.
Link | Add comment
NYT Relaunches Its Health And Wellness Section
NetNewsCheck, Apr 17, 2012, 2:55 PM EDT
Bay Citizen Ends Relationship With NY Times
Poynter, Apr 12, 2012, 7:38 AM EDT
Robert Rosenthal, executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting, has confirmed a tweet from The Bay Citizen’s Jeanne Carstensen saying that it is ending its relationship with The New York Times as of April 29. Link | Add comment
NYT Reporter Blasts Boss In Email To 150 Friends
Gawker, Apr 10, 2012, 3:17 PM EDT
How NYT Created Its 'Stupid Game'
Nieman Journalism Lab, Apr 5, 2012, 2:02 PM EDT
Call it gamification, or just fun, but The New York Times finds there's journalistic value to the game that allows readers to blast away ads, commenters and Maureen Dowd embedded in a recent story about video games. Link | Add comment
NYT Game Lets You Destroy Parts Of Game Story
Poynter, Apr 5, 2012, 8:10 AM EDT
Q&A With NYT's David Carr
Carr: It's Vital To Know Where Info Originates
The Verge, Apr 4, 2012, 8:38 AM EDT
The New York Times' David Carr on aggregation: "I just think that people seem less and less concerned about where their information comes from at a time when I think they should be more and more concerned about it." Link | Add comment
NYT, Reuters Roll Out Olympics Data Service
NetNewsCheck, Apr 2, 2012, 5:59 PM EDT
The new product is a customizable widget that automatically displays data such as medal counts and results, athlete stats and event schedules for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Full Story | Add comment
Commentary
WashPo Ombud's Paywall Analysis Is Faulty
Columbia Journalism Review, Mar 28, 2012, 3:28 PM EDT
Ryan Chittum on Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton's column on The New York Times paywall about the possibility of a paywall at the Post: "You can't compare nine months of circulation-revenue changes to 12 months of ad-revenue changes and then say the former 'didn't even cover the decline in the latter.' That's like giving somebody a 100 meter headstart in the 400 meters and then talking about how the laggard couldn't even compete, even though they ran faster than the rest of the field." Link | Add comment
Even Old Media Standbys Act Like New Media
The Atlantic, Mar 28, 2012, 8:13 AM EDT
60 Minutes has online games. The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times produce hours of video per day. Legacy publications have embraced social media. Link | Add comment
Top 100 Newsstand App Bring In $70K Daily
The Atlantic Wire, Mar 28, 2012, 8:13 AM EDT
According to app analytics company Distimo, "more than $70K USD is already being made daily by the top 100 grossing [iPad] Newsstand applications in the United States." The top revenue getters: News Corp.'s The Daily followed by The New York Times. Link | Add comment
BIA/Kelsey ILM East: 12
NY Times: Consumer Now At Media’s Center
NetNewsCheck, Mar 27, 2012, 2:50 PM EDT
Michael Zimbalist, VP of research and development at The New York Times, told attendees at BIA/Kelsey's ILM East conference that the media environment has shifted from a publishing paradigm to a communications one where the consumer has replaced information at the center of the media experience. Full Story | Add comment
Man Climbs NYT Building In Search Of A Newspaper
The New York Times, Mar 26, 2012, 7:33 AM EDT
Dog Stories Up 45% In NYT Since Abramson
Columbia Journalism Review, Mar 26, 2012, 7:01 AM EDT
Report: NYT Focusing On External CEO Candidates
Bloomberg, Mar 21, 2012, 7:23 AM EDT
NYT Paywall: One Year Later
NY Times Tightens Paywall Limits
NetNewsCheck, Mar 20, 2012, 12:09 PM EDT
One year after putting up its metered paywall, the newspaper is approaching a half million digital subscribers and readying to tighten restrictions to free content: The Times will limit readers to 10 free stories per month, down from 20, starting in April. Full Story | Add comment
NY Time Paywall: One Year Later
NYT Paywall Sees Success, More Challenges
Capital New York, Mar 19, 2012, 3:16 PM EDT
Last March, The New York Times launched its metered paywall. In the year since, the new subscription model has surprised insiders with its degree of success. Link | Add comment
Commentary: Newspapers And Video
WSJ, NYT Follow Different Video Paths
PaidContent, Mar 19, 2012, 7:50 AM EDT
Two newspapers are taking entirely different aproaches to video: The Wall Street Journal has embraced video and is generating hours of content, while rival The New York Times has taken a slower "toe-in-the-water" approach. Though the Times strategy may yield higher quality video, the Journal is poised to become the first paper to master video on multiple platforms. Link | Add comment
Heron: WSJ Paywall Is Challenge For Social
Poynter, Mar 16, 2012, 3:28 PM EDT
Liz Heron, The New York Times social media editor who is leaving for The Wall Street Journal, on the Journal's strict paywall: "I look at it as an interesting challenge. There’s a lot to be done with engaging that network of subscribers and getting them to not only talk to us at the Journal, but to talk to each other." Link | Add comment
WSJ Poaches NYT Social Media Editor Heron
The New York Observer, Mar 16, 2012, 3:28 PM EDT
The New York Times social media editor Liz Heron has jumped to rival Wall Street Journal, according to an internal memo sent out today by WSJ digital managing editor Raju Narisetti. Link | Add comment
Commentary
NY Times Exec Pay Structure Isn't Fit To Print
Reuters, Mar 15, 2012, 8:02 AM EDT
NY Times Names Marc Frons CIO
NetNewsCheck, Mar 14, 2012, 12:44 PM EDT
NYT Mag Editor: We Maybe 'Blew It' On The iPad
Capital New York, Mar 13, 2012, 8:40 AM EDT
SXSW 2012
NYT Editor Abramson Stays Humble At SXSW
Forbes, Mar 12, 2012, 3:05 PM EDT
In a wide-ranging conversation at SXSW with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith, New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson talked about everything from the Times’s paywall to her relationship with predecessor Bill Keller. Forbes Jeff Bercovici caught up with Abramson at the interactive festival.
Link | Add comment
NYT CEO Robinson's Exit Package Tops $23M
Bloomberg, Mar 12, 2012, 7:45 AM EDT
SXSW 2012
NYT Joins Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Initiative
NetNewsCheck, Mar 9, 2012, 1:11 PM EST
The New York Times, along with ProPublica, Spiegel Online and La Nacion will join the Knight-Mozilla fellowship program and open their newsrooms to developers and journalists. Full Story | Add comment
SXSW 2012
NYT Launches Tumblr For SXSW Coverage
NetNewsCheck, Mar 9, 2012, 1:11 PM EST
The New York Times this week announced that it is launching a new Tumblr blog, NYTSXSW, that will "share a sampling of our experiences in Austin." The blog will include photos, notes on panels and general impressions from the music, film and interactive festival, the Times said. | Add comment
Newspapers Putting Their Faith In Paywalls
The Wall Street Journal, Mar 6, 2012, 6:56 AM EST
As more newspapers close the door on free access to their websites, some publishers are still waiting for paying customers to pour in. The numbers of readers signing up so far suggest that at many papers, "paywalls" aren't about to reverse publishers' deteriorating finances. Yet the results aren't discouraging industry executives, who say their efforts are succeeding in shoring up the core print business after years of declines. Link | Add comment
Election 2012
NYT Enhances 'Super Tuesday' Vid Coverage
NetNewsCheck, Mar 5, 2012, 3:47 PM EST
The newspaper will begin video coverage of the Super Tuesday primary election results at 7 p.m. tomorrow night and provide hourly updates throughout the evening. Full Story | Add comment
NYT Uses Facebook Timeline To Show Off Its History
CNET, Feb 29, 2012, 4:02 PM EST
NY Times Launches Tumblr For Archived Photos
The New York Times, Feb 29, 2012, 3:48 PM EST
NYT Rolls Out Election 2012 App For Android
NetNewsCheck, Feb 28, 2012, 12:03 PM EST
The app includes all the features of its December iPhone release, and adds county-by-county maps for every primary and caucus, voting projections from Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog, a delegate tracker for the Republican nomination, and enhanced live blogging to both versions. Full Story | Add comment
Janet Robinson: NYT's $25K-Per-Hour Consultant
Footnoted, Feb 27, 2012, 2:34 PM EST
NYT Columnist Sorry For 'Magic Underwear' Tweet
Huffington Post, Feb 24, 2012, 3:23 PM EST
Ex-NY Times CEO Janet Robinson Joins F-H Board
PRNewser, Feb 22, 2012, 3:05 PM EST
Public Editor: Many Voices, One NY Times
The New York Times, Feb 22, 2012, 8:13 AM EST
Arthur Brisbane, public editor for The New York Times, says the newspaper should create a news portal to protect its product: "Home base should be an anchor that not only offers content but also an institutional statement about what The Times stands for and what it thinks." Link | Add comment
Responses To NYT's Bill Keller's WikiLeaks Attack
The Nation, Feb 21, 2012, 7:15 AM EST
'Tweet' Is Still Not Part Of NY Times Style Guide
The New York Observer, Feb 16, 2012, 8:26 AM EST
HuffPo's Parentlode Will Now Be Called Parentry
PaidContent, Feb 13, 2012, 3:44 PM EST
Despite Numbers, Mail Online, NYT Far Apart
PaidContent, Feb 10, 2012, 11:48 AM EST
Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times' website for global audience, according to comScore, but the U.K. newspaper is no more competing with the Times than Coca-Cola is with cod liver oil, says PaidContent's Robert Andrews. Link | Add comment
Inside NYU’s East Village Hyperlocal Site
Street Fight, Feb 10, 2012, 8:47 AM EST
Daniel Maurer, editor of The Local: East Village, a joint project between NYU and The New York Times: "I think there’s a perception of student journalism that it’s often very wide-eyed and naïve. You have students coming to the neighborhood and seeing a cool shop and saying: 'I’ve got to interview the owner of that shop.' Meanwhile, it’s a shop that’s been profiled a thousand times … My objective is to make the site something that the residents of the neighborhood can come to and find out something that they don’t already know." Link | Add comment
Phoenix Writer Flags NYT On Copyright Foul
The Phoenix, Feb 9, 2012, 8:16 AM EST
Carly Carioli, a writer for alt weekly The Boston Phoenix, called out New York Times editor Bill Keller for his column last week on copyright infringement while the Times reposted without permission "Death and Football" (including the layout and pictures), a 1976 article from weekly The Real Paper. Link | Add comment
Halifax Lays Off 30 Ex-NYT Staffers In Tampa
Poynter, Feb 6, 2012, 8:24 AM EST
Commentary
NYT Needs More Than Just A Paywall
GigaOM, Feb 6, 2012, 8:13 AM EST
Mathew Ingram: "There's nothing wrong with having a paywall — although in many cases it amounts to building a wall of sandbags around the print newspaper edition, which provides most of the ad revenue — but if a paywall is your only strategy for responding to digital disruption of the media business, then you are almost certainly doomed, whether you are The New York Times or not." Link | Add comment
Shirky: Paywalls Will Live On Core Audience
NPR, Feb 3, 2012, 12:05 PM EST
Clay Shirky: "In fact, what [The New York Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune and Chicago Sun Times] are doing, and I think an increasing number of papers are copying them, is saying we will never get a majority or even a sizable minority of our readers to pay us directly, but we can design a system in which some of our most passionate, engaged readers pay us directly, and the rest of the readers, the casual readers, we can keep around for the advertising revenue." Listen to the full interview here .   Link | Add comment
Yahoo Steals NYT Columnist Heffernan
Politico, Feb 3, 2012, 8:26 AM EST
In its most high-profile move since announcing the expansion of its political coverage, Yahoo News has hired former New York Times columnist Virginia Heffernan as its national correspondent. Link | Add comment
NY Times: Search For CEO Still In Early Stages
Capital New York, Feb 3, 2012, 7:31 AM EST
NYT To Expand Tech, Health Blogs
PaidContent, Feb 2, 2012, 4:35 PM EST
The New York Times is planning to remake its technology blog (Bits) and its health blog along the lines of its DealBook business blog, the company said Thursday. Link | Add comment
Quarterly Report
NYTCo. Digital Ad Rev Down In Q4
NetNewsCheck, Feb 2, 2012, 3:04 PM EST
Digital advertising revenue across The New York Times Co.’s digital properties — primarily NYTimes.com, BostonGlobe.com, Boston.com, About.com — fell 4.9% to $95.7 million from $100.6 million. The company also reported a total of 406,000 paid subscribers for its digital subscription packages. Full Story | Add comment
NY Times Launches Online Business Show
Feb 1, 2012, 3:29 PM EST
The newspaper's new video program "Business Day Live" will broadcast live from the Times newsroom and appear on NYTimes.com every weekday morning. Full Story | Add comment
NYTCo Faces Leadership Vacuum As Rev Falls
Bloomberg, Jan 27, 2012, 1:15 PM EST
NYT Releases Code To Help Journos Collaborate
Poynter, Jan 27, 2012, 8:23 AM EST
NY Times Traffic Is Flat Since Paywall
Poynter, Jan 26, 2012, 8:06 AM EST
The New York Times counted about 44 million unique visitors worldwide last February before instating its paywall. By December, that figure reached 44.8 million. Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy: "We certainly haven't seen the sorts of declines that people anticipated when we launched the paywall." Link | Add comment
NYT Experiment Dives Deep Into Content
Nieman Journalism Lab, Jan 23, 2012, 3:04 PM EST
Using an article as a jumping-off point, The New York Times' new project Deep Dive, which digs through the newspaper's vast archives to find articles related to specific topics and stories, can create a custom, contextual feed that will allow readers to follow topics in the news. Link | Add comment
NYTimes, Sundance Team On Op-Docs Film Series
NetNewsCheck, Jan 19, 2012, 3:28 PM EST
NYT's Bits Blog Gets A Billboard
All Things Digital, Jan 19, 2012, 8:24 AM EST
Commentary
For News Orgs, Fact-Checking Is Worth Cost
Nieman Journalism Lab, Jan 13, 2012, 4:15 PM EST
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark: "The news outlets making a strong effort to fact-check will be acting in good faith and trustworthy, and profitable. However, this seems like a good way to start restoring trust to the news business." Link | Add comment
Brisbane: Should NYT Be A Truth Vigilante?
The New York Times, Jan 13, 2012, 6:58 AM EST
New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane generated a lot of buzz in the journalism field when he asked if it was the duty of Times reporters to challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. Link | Add comment
Halifax Takes Troubling Approach With Staff
American Journalism Review, Jan 12, 2012, 2:40 PM EST
Rem Rieder on the Halifax Media Group noncompete contract that would have kept employees who left the company for any reason from working for another news outlet for two years: "Now everyone knows the media business is a tough one these days. Draconian cost-cutting at newspapers in particular is commonplace. But that hardly means that media companies have to subject their minions to such punitive contracts. The tone of the 'employee non-solicitation, non-compete and confidentiality agreement' is relentlessly harsh. Halifax's approach makes Bain Capital seem like a socialist collective." Link | Comments (1)
Commentary
Rise Of Citizen Journalism Is A Positive Force
GigaOM, Jan 12, 2012, 8:31 AM EST
Mathew Ingram on New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof's views on citizen journalism: "Journalism gets better the more people there are doing it. That's not to say every citizen journalist or person with a smartphone and a Twitter account is going to be right or fair ... but it means that there are more sources of information, and that is almost always a good thing." Link | Add comment
NYT Limited Layoffs To 200 In Sale To Halifax
Poynter, Jan 11, 2012, 3:09 PM EST
As part of its deal to sell its Regional Media Group to Halifax Media, The New York Times Co. limited layoffs to 10% of employees — or 200 staffers — according to an SEC filing. Link | Add comment
NYT Waits For Someone To Crack Hyperlocal
Street Fight, Jan 11, 2012, 8:52 AM EST
The New York Times tested the hyperlocal waters with The Local, but transferred management of the blogs after recent cutbacks. The paper now is waiting for the business model to change before diving back in to hyperlocal. Mary Ann Giordano, the Times editor who oversaw The Local: "We need someone to figure out a very good business model. I know that Patch is trying very hard; they’re having some success. We’d love to see them succeed because we think we can. Let me put it this way: a lot of community bloggers are hoping to find a way to make a living because it’s a really fun way to do journalism." Link | Add comment
Kristof: Social Media Is A 24/7 Conversation
Fast Company, Jan 11, 2012, 8:02 AM EST
New York Times blogger and reporter Nicholas Kristof on social media: "We're moving from a format where we 'proclaimed the news' to the world on a fixed schedule to one where we converse with the world on a 24/7 basis. That does feel like a significant change. I don't think what we do 20 years from now will look much like what we're doing today." Link | Add comment
NYT, WSJ Top Newspapers On Google Plus
Adam Sherk, Jan 11, 2012, 8:02 AM EST
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are the top newspapers when it comes to shares, comments and plus 1s per post on Google Plus. NBC News leads the way for television news organizations. Link | Add comment
Halifax Waives Noncompete For Former NYT Staffers
Poynter, Jan 11, 2012, 7:39 AM EST
Was NYT CEO's Golden Parachute That Excessive?
Forbes, Jan 10, 2012, 8:38 AM EST
Halifax Asks Ex-NYT Staffers To Sign Noncompetes
Poynter, Jan 9, 2012, 3:59 PM EST
Commentary: Paywalls and Pay Strategies
How FT, NY Times Will Crack The Paywall
Monday Note, Jan 9, 2012, 3:27 PM EST
Frédéric Filloux on how the Financial Times and The New York Times can make their paywall efforts successful: "With pre-existing and different audience segments such as an individual and corporate users, pricing decisions become more complicated and a diversified price list can prevent cannibalization. Link | Add comment
NYT, Halifax Close Regional Newspaper Sale
NetNewsCheck, Jan 6, 2012, 4:01 PM EST
The New York Times Co. and Halifax Media Holdings LLC today announced the closing of the sale of the Times’ Regional Media Group of 16 newspapers for $143 million in cash, subject to certain adjustments. The Times will record an after-tax gain on the sale in the first quarter of 2012 and estimates the net after-tax proceeds from the sale, including a tax benefit, will be approximately $150 million. The newspaper will use the net sale proceeds for general corporate purposes, the company said in a press release.
The New York Times Co. and Halifax Media Holdings LLC today announced the closing of the sale of the Times’ Regional Media Group for $143 million in cash, subject to certain adjustments. The Times will record an after-tax gain on the sale in the first quarter of 2012 and estimates the net after-tax proceeds from the sale, including a tax benefit, will be approximately $150 million. The newspaper will use the net sale proceeds for general corporate purposes, the company said in a press release.

The New York Times Co. and Halifax Media Holdings LLC today announced the closing of the sale of the Times’ Regional Media Group for $143 million in cash, subject to certain adjustments. The Times will record an after-tax gain on the sale in the first quarter of 2012 and estimates the net after-tax proceeds from the sale, including a tax benefit, will be approximately $150 million. The newspaper will use the net sale proceeds for general corporate purposes, the company said in a press release.

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NYT's Heron: Social Is Important For Journos
10,000 Words, Jan 6, 2012, 3:45 PM EST
Liz Heron, The New York Times' social media editor, on how reporters use social media: "It’s all about figuring out how to take a story that’s developing on social media and put it together in a way that makes sense [and] in a way that’s fast. It’s kind of pulling the news from the noise, and there is a lot of noise right now because we’re so hyper connected." Link | Add comment
NYT Launches Free Replica Edition
PaidContent, Jan 6, 2012, 2:51 PM EST
The New York Times raised the price of its weekday print edition this week but added a small perk for home delivery subscribers: a digital replica edition. Link | Add comment
Commentary
Baltimore Sun Paywall Should Emulate NYT
Baltimore Magazine, Jan 6, 2012, 8:29 AM EST
Evan Serpick: "ne aspect of the paywall that I have been critical of from the start is that, unlike The [New York] Times, The [Baltimore] Sun requires its print subscribers to pay an additional fee to access the website. This just feels like to insult to the paper's core customers, those who have stuck by it while others fled." Link | Add comment
Guild Sends Letter To NYT Over Frozen Pensions
Fishbowl NY, Jan 4, 2012, 2:26 PM EST
NYTCo, Newspaper Guild Reopen Negotiations
MediaPost, Dec 30, 2011, 8:40 AM EST
NYT Runs Correction For Subscriptions Email
MediaPost, Dec 29, 2011, 10:47 AM EST
NY Times Regional Staffers Brace For Layoffs
The Atlantic Wire, Dec 28, 2011, 3:13 PM EST
With the sale of the Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Holdings nearing completion, staffers are bracing for a round of layoffs. In a memo leaked to Jim Romenesko, employees will learn within the next 48 hours whether or not they will still have jobs. Link | Add comment
NYT Readers Inundated By False Subscription Email
The New York Times, Dec 28, 2011, 2:59 PM EST
NYT Co. Agrees To Sell Regional Newspapers
NetNewsCheck, Dec 28, 2011, 8:04 AM EST
The company is close to finalizing the sale of its Regional Media Group of 16 newspapers and related businesses to Halifax Media Holdings for $143 million. Full Story | Add comment
Tom Bodkin Named NYT Deputy Managing Editor
The New York Times, Dec 27, 2011, 2:14 PM EST
HuffPo Accedes To NYT, Drops 'Parentlode' Name
PaidContent, Dec 22, 2011, 3:41 PM EST
Robinson Exit To Cost NY Times Over $15M
Reuters, Dec 22, 2011, 7:39 AM EST
Janet Robinson, who will leave her post as CEO of The New York Times Co. on Dec. 31, will receive an exit package in excess of $15 million, according to a report. In addition to a $4.5 million consulting fee, the Times will pay Robinson $10.9 million in pension benefits that she accrued over 28 years of service. Link | Add comment
NY Times Wins duPont For Digital Reporting
NetNewsCheck, Dec 21, 2011, 4:03 PM EST
The New York Times was the recipient of the first-ever duPont-Columbia Award for digital reporting. The award is for two of the newspaper's online features. MediaStorm also won an award for digital reporting for a story from photojournalist Walter Astrada. Full Story | Add comment
Commentary
NYT Paywall 'Isn't Cutting It As A Strategy'
GigaOM, Dec 21, 2011, 7:55 AM EST
Mathew Ingram, suggests some things he would do if he were CEO of The New York Times, including reassessing the paywall: "The NYT wall is bringing in some revenue, which is good, but it's probably not going to grow much beyond the levels it has reached already. ... It's also fundamentally backward-looking, in that it is aimed primarily at shoring up print revenue. The new CEO shouldn't kill it, but shouldn't focus on it either." Link | Add comment
Halifax Media Sale Sign Of Rise In Dealmaking
Poynter, Dec 20, 2011, 3:18 PM EST
The sale of The New York Times Co.'s Halifax Media Group collection of 16 regional newspapers could be an indication that the climate for such transactions in the industry is beginning to thaw. Link | Add comment
NY Times' Plan: (Digital) World Domination
Newsonomics, Dec 20, 2011, 8:36 AM EST
Ken Doctor on The New York Times Co. selling its regional newspaper group and losing CEO Janet Robinson: "The New York Times is slimming down to bulk up. It is no longer a newspaper company, with a strong national newspaper, a Boston cousin in the Globe and regional newspaper interests. It is a global news company whose future is mostly digital, and it will live or die on that adventure." Link | Add comment
Report: NYT Selling Regional Newspapers
The New York Times, Dec 19, 2011, 1:32 PM EST
Digital Strategy Undid NY Times CEO
The Wall Street Journal, Dec 19, 2011, 7:30 AM EST
Last week's resignation of New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson came after several years of criticism for her digital strategy. The company's decision to consider outside candidates to replace her — including people with a digital background — may indicate that the Sulzberger family is seeking a more digitally aggressive CEO. Wall Street Journal subscribers can read the full story here. Link | Add comment
NY Times CEO Janet Robinson To Step Down
NetNewsCheck, Dec 15, 2011, 10:41 PM EST
Robinson, 61, president and CEO of the company since 2004, will step down on Dec. 31. She will serve as a consultant for one year. Publisher and company chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. will take over on an interim basis. Full Story | Add comment
NYT Sorry For Not Giving Techdirt Credit For Story
Poynter, Dec 15, 2011, 7:05 AM EST
ITunes Names Top News Apps Of 2011
Poynter, Dec 12, 2011, 6:38 AM EST
Apple's iTunes store has contributed its own year-end list, releasing a list of the year's top selling news apps, including The New York Times, The Daily and Zite. Link | Add comment
NY Times Launches 2012 Election App
NetNewsCheck, Dec 8, 2011, 1:41 PM EST
The new app for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch will present election coverage from The New York Times and other sources in a continuously updated news feed curated by a dedicated editor. Full Story | Add comment
NY Times, Star Trib Make Adweek's Hot List
Adweek, Dec 7, 2011, 7:42 AM EST
The New York Times and the Minnesota Star Tribune, which both launched paywalls earlier this year, were recognized by Adweek as the year's hottest national and regional papers respectively. Link | Add comment
NYT Eyes Tech, Info Companies For Acquisition
Bloomberg, Dec 5, 2011, 12:38 AM EST
Louis Silverstein, Lauded NYT Art Director, Dies
The New York Times, Dec 2, 2011, 2:32 PM EST
NY Times Overhauls Comment System
Poynter, Dec 1, 2011, 7:51 AM EST
The New York Times this week launched a new commenting system that spotlights reader contributions and grants special privileges to trusted readers. Link | Add comment
Parenting Fills FB’s Most Shared Articles List
TechCrunch, Nov 30, 2011, 8:16 AM EST
Stories about natural disasters and parenting advice from CNN, Yahoo News, The New York Times and Huffington Post topped Facebook's list of the most shared articles for 2011. Link | Add comment
NYT Offers Half-Off Digital For Cyber Monday
NetNewsCheck, Nov 28, 2011, 3:33 PM EST
The New York Times is getting in on the Cyber Monday craze, with its own deal offering 26-week digital subscriptions for half off their regular price. Full Story | Add comment
NYT Plucks More Young Talent From HuffPo
Capital New York, Nov 22, 2011, 8:29 AM EST
The Huffington Post has added a small pool of veteran reporters from The New York Times to its masthead over the past year, but the newspaper is starting to turn the tables and poach young talent from the pureplay, including its latest steal, HuffPo's college editor Leah Finnegan. Link | Add comment
NYT Launches Digital Subs For Companies
PaidContent, Nov 21, 2011, 3:27 PM EST
The New York Times is rolling out its all access digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones for companies and organizations with more than 50 employees. Link | Add comment
NYT Ad Pushes Paper's Advertising Policy
Columbia Journalism Review, Nov 16, 2011, 7:32 AM EST
The Coca-Cola ad that ran this week across The New York Times' digital platforms looked much like an environment-themed version of the paper's homepage that seems to violate the Times' advertising policy that calls for a "clear separation between news and editorial matter and its advertisements." Link | Add comment
NYT Runs Interactive Ad Campaign In HTML5
Nieman Journalism Lab, Nov 15, 2011, 3:53 PM EST
The New York Times is running the Coca-Cola "Arctic Home" campaign across all of its digital platforms in an effort to reach an audience that is increasingly distributed across different digital platforms. Link | Add comment
NYT Launches Fashion And Style App
WWD, Nov 15, 2011, 2:31 PM EST
NY Times Expands Technology Blog
Reuters, Nov 10, 2011, 3:17 PM EST
The New York Times is adding more reporting and analysis to its Bits technology blog and will expand to cover a broader range of subjects. Link | Add comment
New York Times Sues HuffPo Over Mommy Blog
Reuters, Nov 8, 2011, 12:36 PM EST
Commentary
If WikiLeaks Is Dying, NYT Is Partly To Blame
GigaOM, Nov 8, 2011, 12:04 PM EST
Nisenholtz, RSS, And The Power Of Standards
Nieman Journalism Lab, Nov 8, 2011, 8:21 AM EST
Retiring New York Times senior VP of digital operations Martin Nisenholtz played a large role in establishing the Web's long-standing RSS standard. Link | Add comment
NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retires
PaidContent, Nov 7, 2011, 3:47 PM EST
Martin Nisenholtz is leaving the New York Times Co. at the end of the year after 16 years as the driving force behind its digital strategy. According to PaidContent, the position of senior VP of digital operations will not be refilled. Link | Add comment
NYT Fails To Credit Politico On Cain Story
Fishbowl NY, Nov 2, 2011, 3:19 PM EDT
Carr: We're In A Golden Age Of Journalism
NPR, Nov 2, 2011, 7:41 AM EDT
New York Times media columnist David Carr, speaking on NPR's Fresh Air about the state of journalism today: "We are entering a golden age of journalism. I do think there has been horrible frictional costs, but I think when we look back at what has happened, I look at my backpack that is sitting here, and it contains more journalistic firepower than the entire newsroom that I walked into 30 to 40 years ago." Link | Add comment
NY Times Debuts Web-Friendly Event Calendar
Capital New York, Nov 2, 2011, 7:11 AM EDT
ABC: WSJ, NYT Lead Digital Circulation
NetNewsCheck, Nov 1, 2011, 3:02 PM EDT
The New York Times' seven-month-old paywall didn't keep the paper from being second to only The Wall Street Journal when it comes to digital circulation, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations' latest report. Full Story | Add comment
Commentary: Paywalls and Pay Strategies
If Paywall Is Your Only Tactic, You're Doomed
GigaOM, Oct 31, 2011, 2:04 PM EDT
Mathew Ingram: "there is no guarantee that those paywall subscriber numbers will continue to grow, and in fact there is reason to believe (given the history of similar attempts) that they will soon level off and stop growing. So it is by definition a stop-gap strategy, which is why newspapers that are relying solely on a paywall to save their bacon are likely doomed." Link | Add comment
Paywall Money Not Enough To Help NY Times
Yahoo News, Oct 27, 2011, 3:18 PM EDT
The New York Times' paywall is unlikely to collect enough revenue to offset a long-running decline in the newspaper's print advertising, according to Citigroup analyst Leo Kulp, who downgraded his rating on the stock of The New York Times Co. from "Buy" to "Neutral." Link | Add comment
Occupy Wall Street
Video Reveals Truth Behind OWS Headlines
Jest, Oct 27, 2011, 2:28 PM EDT
Comedy site Jest reveals how The New York Times, New York Post, Fox News, Huffington Post and others come up with their Occupy Wall Street headlines.
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HuffPo Debuts Parenting Blog, NYT Says Stop
WWD, Oct 25, 2011, 2:50 PM EDT
Former New York Times writer and founeer of the blog Motherlode Lisa Belkin launched her new blog Parentlode on Huffington Post this week. The Times sent a cease-and-desist letter protesting the blog's name. Link | Add comment
Digital Sub Growth: A Tale Of Two 'Times'
PaidContent, Oct 24, 2011, 8:42 AM EDT
The New York Times and News Corp.'s The Times have both launched paywalls within the past year and a half, and while The Times of London has grown its digital subscribers at a slow and steady rate, The New York Times has seen digital subscribership skyrocket since March, according to PaidContent analysis.
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NYT's Abramson: Story Lengths Need Cutting
Politico, Oct 21, 2011, 8:11 AM EDT
Jill Abramson, The New York Times new executive editor, told C-SPAN's Brian Lamb that she sees a 'lack of discipline' in story lengths at the newspaper.
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NYT: Digital Subscribers Up 45% Since June
Associated Press, Oct 20, 2011, 2:25 PM EDT
The New York Times' focus on digital subscriptions is starting to pay off. According to the company's third quarter earnings report, it ended the quarter with 324,000 paid digital New York Times subscribers, up 45% from 224,000 subscribers as of June 26, which helped boost circulation revenue 3% during the quarter. Full Story | Add comment
Paywalls and Pay Strategies
SME's Kostolny: Raise The Wall, Experiment
Editors Weblog, Oct 20, 2011, 8:44 AM EDT
Matúš Kostolný, editor in chief of SME in Slovakia, speaking at the World Editors Forum: "Don't be afraid to raise the wall and experiment. ... We raised the wall in May this year and we have to change it constantly, but you have to start somewhere and remain open and flexible." Link | Add comment
How Print-Digital Divide Endures At NY Times
The New York Observer, Oct 19, 2011, 3:21 PM EDT
The New York Times still has separate contracts for print and digital employees, a distinction that has withstood even the “newsroom integration” of 2005, during which Bill Keller announced that the paper planned “to diminish and eventually eliminate the difference between newspaper journalists and Web journalists.” Link | Add comment
NY Times Unveils New Online Opinion Pages
PaidContent, Oct 18, 2011, 3:30 PM EDT
Over the next few weeks, The New York Times will roll out its new online Opinion Pages. The move is further immersion in the mix of news and opinion for NYT and other traditional news organizations, such as Bloomberg and Reuters, have built up more features around blogging and analysis. Link | Add comment
Jill Abramson's Journey To Top Of The NY Times
The New Yorker, Oct 17, 2011, 8:19 AM EDT
NYT: 'Incredibly Surprising' Growth In Traffic
Journalism.co.uk, Oct 17, 2011, 7:36 AM EDT
Assistant managing editor Jim Roberts said The New York Times website has shown an "incredibly surprising" 2.3% year-on-year increase in unique users despite introduction of digital subscriptions earlier this year. Link | Add comment
NYT Plans Staff Reductions
The New York Times, Oct 13, 2011, 3:25 PM EDT
Pa. Papers Didn't Drop Paywalls For Floods
Poynter, Oct 12, 2011, 2:25 PM EDT
While The New York Times made coverage of Hurrican Irene exempt from its paywall, Bloomsburg (Pa.) Press-Enterprise left its paywall locked tight when floods ravaged Northeastern Pennsylvania just a few weeks later. Link | Add comment
NYT, Feds At Odds Over Patriot Act Interpretation
TechDirt, Oct 11, 2011, 1:39 PM EDT
Keller: Papers Dying, But Journalism Lives
Poynter, Oct 11, 2011, 8:05 AM EDT
Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller: "Newspaper editors are foolish if they make predictions. I'm quite confident that — obviously not every newspaper, a lot of them are dying off — but there will be good journalism produced into the foreseeable and maybe the unforeseeable future. And the future will be a combination of survivors." Link | Add comment
NYT Sells Film, TV Database To Previous Owner
The Wrap, Oct 10, 2011, 2:22 PM EDT
True Ties Petitions NYT For Transparency
10,000 Words, Oct 7, 2011, 8:15 AM EDT
The Checks and Balances Project's new campaign at TrueTies.org asks users to sign a petition to The New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane to publicly disclose the financial ties of their so-called expert sources. Link | Add comment
NYT Climbs After Carlos Slim Increases Stake
Bloomberg, Oct 7, 2011, 7:43 AM EDT
Commentary
What If The Rankers Ranked Newspapers?
The Washington Post, Oct 5, 2011, 6:57 AM EDT
The Washington Post's Daniel de Vise comes up with a quick method for ranking newspapers and finds The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times top the list. Link | Add comment
NYT International Edition Introduces Paid App
MediaWeek, Oct 4, 2011, 3:24 PM EDT
The International Herald Tribune, the international editon of The New York Times, has introduced a paid-for digital subscription for access to its iPhone and iPad apps. Link | Add comment
Turning Tables: NYT Poaches Alden From HuffPo
The New York Observer, Oct 4, 2011, 2:08 PM EDT
NYT Lays Off 15 From About.com's Staff
BusinessInsider, Sep 27, 2011, 5:17 PM EDT
About.com, the information portal of The New York Times Co., laid off 15 of its 22 full or part-time positions on its editorial staff today. Darline Jean took over as CEO of About Group, replacing Cella Irvine. Jean, previously the company's CFO, was tasked with turning around falling revenue, which dropped 17.3% in the second quarter.   Link | Add comment
Laid Off Slate Staffer Joins NY Times
New York Magazine, Sep 22, 2011, 8:01 AM EDT
NYT Paywall: 12% Of Subs Are International
PaidContent, Sep 22, 2011, 7:23 AM EDT
In a conversation at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson declined to provide an update on the number of digital subscribers, but did say that about 88% are domestic and 12% are international. Link | Add comment
NYT: Ad Rev Will Be Worse Than Expected
Reuters, Sep 21, 2011, 2:46 PM EDT
New York Times Co. warned its third quarter advertising revenue would drop by a larger-than-expected 8%, hurt by a pullback from real estate, help wanted and national automotive advertisers. Link | Add comment
NYT CEO Janet Robinson Is A Secret Tweeter
Forbes, Sep 19, 2011, 3:34 PM EDT
News.me Gets Wings, But Will It Fly
GigaOM, Sep 16, 2011, 12:27 PM EDT
News.me, which started as a side project within The New York Times and then became part of the Betaworks startup incubator, spun off earlier this week. Now, it must prove that it can compete against giants such as Flipboard. Link | Add comment
Patent Troll Strikes Bloomberg, NYT
PaidContent, Sep 15, 2011, 6:36 AM EDT
A shell company in Delaware is suing Bloomberg, The New York Times and four other news giants for infringing a patent related to "autocomplete" software. Link | Add comment
News.me Relaunches As Free App
Nieman Journalism Lab, Sep 15, 2011, 6:36 AM EDT
Personalization-driven, filter-focused iPad app News.me, initially prototyped at The New York Times and incubated within the Betaworks company Bit.ly, is making its iPad app -- previously $0.99 a week or $34.99 a year -- free to all. Link | Add comment
NYT, WNYC Education Site Launches
Mashable, Sep 7, 2011, 8:39 AM EDT
The New York Times and public radio station WNYC today launched SchoolBook, a Web site to provide news, data and discussion about New York City schools. Link | Add comment
Abramson Names NYT Leadership Team
Poynter, Sep 7, 2011, 8:27 AM EDT
Ralph Lauren Reminds What A Sponsor Does
MediaPost, Sep 7, 2011, 8:26 AM EDT
Ralph Lauren's New York Times app sponsorship gives users full article access to select sections of the Times and fills many of its ad spaces with lush Lauren creative. Link | Add comment
Tech Reporter Nick Wingfield Quits WSJ For NYT
Poynter, Sep 7, 2011, 7:54 AM EDT
Abramson Faces Tough Test As NYT Boss
Reflections of a Newsosaur, Sep 6, 2011, 2:20 PM EDT
Indian News Sites Turn Into Online Leaders
Forbes, Sep 6, 2011, 8:05 AM EDT
The Web sites for daily newspapers The Times of India and its sister publication, The Economic Times of India, are second only to The New York Times in global online traffic. Link | Add comment
Video Demo: Ralph Lauren's NYT Takeover
ClickZ, Sep 2, 2011, 2:15 PM EDT
ClickZ's Zachary Rodgers gives a demonstration of Ralph Lauren's September month-long sponsorship of The New York Times iPad app.
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Ralph Lauren Sponsors NYT iPad App In Sept.
Advertising Age, Aug 31, 2011, 2:15 PM EDT

Polo Ralph Lauren has bought a solo sponsorship of The New York Times iPad app during September, providing free access to five sections and running ads that, among other things, will provide the only live video of its Fashion Week runway show on Sept. 15. It's the first time a single marketer has bought out the app. Link | Add comment

Rumor: Yahoo Bidding On The NY Times?
The Next Web, Aug 31, 2011, 7:56 AM EDT
Benzinga, a service which brings you "business news before it's news" tweeted that analyst rumors are swirling of Yahoo bidding for The New York Times. Link | Add comment
NYT Reimagines Kitchen Table For Future
Nieman Journalism Lab, Aug 30, 2011, 3:47 PM EDT
At The New York Times Co.’s R&D Lab, the group’s collective of technologists, artists, and journalists demonstrates the Times’ screen-top version of a kitchen table.
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NYT, YouTube, Storyful Join On 9/11 Project
Nieman Journalism Lab, Aug 30, 2011, 3:39 PM EDT
In the run-up to Sept. 11, The New York Times is joining with YouTube and the video-curation service Storyful to gather and share users' reflections on 9/11 and the meaning of the 10 years that have passed since the attacks.
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Why Doesn't NYT Have Something Like Quora
Dave Winer, Aug 30, 2011, 8:04 AM EDT
Irene Gives NYT Twitter Feed Good First Test
Poynter, Aug 30, 2011, 8:01 AM EDT
The New York Times' new Twitter feed, @NYTLive, debuted on Friday just in time for Hurrican Irene. "We learned that people wanted a lot of information, fast. One hypothesis we had never really given ourselves a chance to test was, will people get annoyed with us if they felt like we were tweeting too much? In this case, nobody was complaining," Times social media editor Liz Heron said. Link | Add comment
NYT Launches Breaking News Twitter Feed
Nieman Journalism Lab, Aug 29, 2011, 8:32 AM EDT
The New York Times has launched @NYTLive, a Times-run account featuring "in-depth Twitter curation of major news stories by New York Times editors." Link | Add comment
3 Papers Find Success With Metered Paywalls
eMedia Vitals, Aug 26, 2011, 7:16 AM EDT
The Concord Monitor, The Augusta Chronicle and the Tulsa World have shown increases in unique visitors using metered paywalls similar to that of The New York Times. Link | Add comment
Carlos Slim Boosts Stakes In NY Times
Advertising Age, Aug 23, 2011, 2:59 PM EDT
NYT, WNYC Education Site Will Be Meter-Free
Nieman Journalism Lab, Aug 23, 2011, 8:39 AM EDT
Visits to the new site SchoolBook won't count against The New York Times' paywall, in part because the site aims to reach out to New York City students and parents. Link | Add comment
Chrome Extension Dresses Up NYTimes.com
Nieman Journalism Lab, Aug 19, 2011, 3:39 PM EDT
NYT Names Quentin Hardy Deputy Tech Editor
Talking Biz News, Aug 19, 2011, 7:43 AM EDT
Still No Payment From Tasini '01 Court Win
PaidContent, Aug 18, 2011, 8:01 AM EDT
Jonathan Tasini -- who sued The Huffington Post over the rights of unpaid bloggers -- in 2001 won a legal battle to get additional payments from publishers who had included his freelance work in databases. The suit created a strong legal precedent guaranteeing payment to freelancers whose work ends up being published again digitally. The settlement negotiated in the suit has now been thrown out by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Link | Add comment
New York Times Site Goes Down
The Wrap, Aug 17, 2011, 7:18 AM EDT
The New York Times' home page went offline for nearly 40 minutes on Tuesday night, with a message reading "page not found." The newspaper has given no explanation for the outage. Link | Add comment
Commentary
NYT's 'Leaky Paywall' Is An Effective Formula
Poynter, Aug 16, 2011, 3:45 PM EDT
Jeff Sonderman: "It turns out people will pay for things even when payment is not required. Motivations such as convenience, duty or appreciation are more compelling than coercion." Link | Add comment
Why The NYT's Paywall Is Not Like The FT's
Reuters, Aug 15, 2011, 3:14 PM EDT
Felix Salmon: "The difference between [The New York Times] and the [Financial Times], then, is that the porousness of the paywall is a feature at the NYT and a bug at the FT." Link | Add comment
Commentary
Ingram: NYT Paywall Is 'A Line Of Sandbags'
GigaOM, Aug 15, 2011, 8:00 AM EDT
Mathew Ingram: "[The New York Times paywall is] just charging people nickels and dimes for their paper ... In that sense, it’s not really a strategy at all; it’s more like a line of sandbags designed to shore up the print business and squeeze as much money out of it as possible as it declines. A wise move? Perhaps. Something to get excited about? No." Link | Add comment
Commentary
How The NY Times Paywall Is Working
Reuters, Aug 12, 2011, 12:43 PM EDT
Felix Simon on The New York Times paywall: "[The NYT] paywall marks a new model and very promising in getting consumers to pay for content. It’s not a completely free pay-as-you-wish approach: the NYT nudges people quite hard to pay quite a lot of money. But I’d wager that the majority of people buying digital-only subscriptions are doing so only after bypassing the paywall at least once or twice." Link | Add comment
NY Times Loses 1111111111 Caller ID Number
New York Magazine, Aug 12, 2011, 12:32 PM EDT
Commentary
Can NYT's beta620 Build A News Revolution?
Poynter, Aug 11, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT
Jeff Sonderman on the Times' beta620 experiment: "Think of The New York Times like a car, and the tech team behind beta620 as mechanics. Right now they’re trying out new paint jobs, stereos and navigation systems. Neat stuff. But when they start tinkering with the engine, things will get even more interesting." Link | Add comment
Commentary
Can A Newspaper Think Like A Startup?
GigaOM, Aug 9, 2011, 7:39 AM EDT
Mathew Ingram on whether The New York Times can devote resources to its beta620 experiment: "The New York Times may be a digital leader, but the reality is that the vast majority of its revenue comes from the printed product it has been manufacturing for a century and a half, because that contains the advertising that is its bread and butter -- and even though many see the paywall as a success, its contribution to the bottom line remains relatively minuscule." Link | Add comment
NYT Rolls Out Beta620 Project Site To Public
Advertising Age, Aug 8, 2011, 7:08 AM EDT
The New York Times has introduced its long-delayed Beta620, a public beta testing site where Web surfers can experiment with new products that could eventually take root on NYTimes.com. Link | Add comment
NYT Planning New Social, Comment Features
Poynter, Aug 5, 2011, 2:14 PM EDT
The New York Times is developing a new system for social interaction on its Web site, with big changes expected to begin arriving later this fall. Link | Add comment
Designer Fires Back At Critics Of His NYT Critique
Andy Rutledge, Aug 2, 2011, 8:57 AM EDT
Daily Caller Calls Out NY Times Journalist
The Daily Caller, Aug 1, 2011, 8:05 AM EDT
News site The Daily Caller on Friday posted a story reporting that New York Times social media reporter Jennifer Preston of prompting the White House to create a special Twitter hashtag on the Democratic debt-ceiling bill. Preston said she wasn't trying to help the help the White House in any way. Link | Add comment
Redesigning And Rethinking The News
Drawar, Jul 28, 2011, 3:03 PM EDT
NYTimes.com’s Most Looked-Up Words For 2011
Nieman Journalism Lab, Jul 28, 2011, 8:04 AM EDT
Commentary
New York Times Paywall Is Working
Reuters, Jul 27, 2011, 8:02 AM EDT
Felix Salmon: "The media business has never been about denying access to people who want to read your publication, but the paywalls at News Corp, as well as the one at the [Financial Times], are based around that model. [The New York Times], by contrast, has proven that people will pay even if the paywall is extremely porous." Link | Add comment
Darline Jean Promoted To CEO of NYT's About.com
PaidContent, Jul 27, 2011, 7:35 AM EDT
NYT, TV Stations Among 'Most Social' Cos.
Lost Remote, Jul 26, 2011, 8:41 AM EDT
The New York Times is the most social company in the U.S., and local TV is the top industry on Twitter, according to a report by NetProspex. Link | Add comment
Groupon Running Ads On NYT OOH Screens
ClickZ, Jul 25, 2011, 8:28 AM EDT
In an effort to reach more consumers, Groupon's local offers have been appearing via The New York Times' digital out-of-home screens in major cities since May 16. Link | Add comment
Bill Keller Pulls Plug On His NYT Mag Column
WWD, Jul 25, 2011, 6:52 AM EDT
NYT: The Kingdom And The Paywall
New York Magazine, Jul 25, 2011, 6:42 AM EDT
Despite years of predictions that The New York Times would cease to be under the leadership of Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the newspaper has weathered several crises, but its digital-subscription plan -- the famous “paywall” -- has helped the newspaper improve it fortunes. Link | Add comment
Robinson: NYT App Ads Sold Out Through Q3
PaidContent, Jul 21, 2011, 3:22 PM EDT
New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson also said that even with most of the content on the iPad app closed off to non-digital subs, advertising inventory is sold out to the end of the third quarter. Link | Add comment
Quarterly Report
NY Times Co. Posts Second Quarter Loss
MSNBC, Jul 21, 2011, 3:22 PM EDT
The New York Times Co. reported a second-quarter net loss Thursday because of an accounting adjustment it made for the declining value of its smaller newspapers. But early results from its flagship paper's paid digital subscription service showed promise. Link | Add comment
NYT App Suffers From Technical Problems
Poynter, Jul 20, 2011, 3:30 PM EDT
The New York Times iPad app has suffered from technical issues since the app was updated several weeks ago. Link | Add comment
10 Months Of NYTimes.Com In Seven Minutes
Phillip Mendonça-Vieira, Jul 19, 2011, 7:48 AM EDT
Phillip Mendonça-Vieira collected 12,000 screenshots over 10 months of NYTimes.com's front page. Collected together in a video they run through an election, the rescue of the trapped Chilean miners, the Arab Spring and the Japanes Tsunami, presenting a mosaic of the past year's most important events.
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NYT: E-Mail Outpaces Social Media In Sharing
PaidContent, Jul 13, 2011, 2:52 PM EDT
The New York Times, in a study of who shares links to the newspaper's content, found that e-mail is still the most popular sharing tool, surpassing social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Link | Add comment
NYT Releases App For Windows Phone 7
NetNewsCheck, Jul 12, 2011, 8:11 AM EDT
The New York Times yesterday released a new app for Windows Phone 7 that gives users greater ability to share articles, videos and slide shows with a full set of tools, including Facebook, Twitter and e-mail. “The NYTimes app for Windows Phone leverages our many years of design and technology expertise to offer a fresh, familiar news app tailored for the Windows Phone,” NYTimes.com general manager Denise Warren said in a statement.
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Kindle NYT Subs Finally Get Digital Access
PaidContent, Jul 7, 2011, 4:01 PM EDT
Over three months after announcing that Kindle New York Times subscribers would "soon" have free access to NYTimes.com the way print subscribers do, Amazon is providing that access. Link | Add comment
'Page One' Excerpt
How NYT Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Blogs
Poynter, Jul 7, 2011, 2:44 PM EDT
NYT Allows Subs To Share Digital Access
Nieman Journalism Lab, Jul 7, 2011, 6:46 AM EDT
Glitch Interrupts Access To NYT iPad App
Network World, Jul 6, 2011, 7:02 AM EDT
Many New York Times iPad subscribers have been unable to access the paper's articles since Friday, when an update pushed through Apple's App Store rendered the application unable to display content. Link | Add comment
NYT Sells Most Of Its Stake In Boston Red Sox
Bloomberg, Jul 5, 2011, 7:40 AM EDT
NYT Enables In-App Subs For iPad, iPhone
Macstories, Jul 4, 2011, 10:37 AM EDT
The New York Times late last week released an update for its iPad and iPhone apps that allows users to purchase in-app subscriptions for content behind its paywall. Link | Add comment
Commentary
NY Times Paywall Could Work Better
PBS MediaShift, Jun 24, 2011, 6:54 AM EDT
Teeming Media's Dorian Benkoil: "[The New York Times] could boost its revenue further by using ad targeting technologies to try to get more page views from people who are of more value to high-priced advertisers. The same ad targeting technologies could be used to identify users to show them relevant ads, and let people identified as having higher income and education levels through without showing them the gate after they've reached a 20-article limit." Link | Add comment
Newspaper Scented Candle Hits The Market
Gizmodo, Jun 22, 2011, 7:22 AM EDT
NYT Puts Character Limit On Comments
The Wrap, Jun 21, 2011, 7:28 AM EDT
Commentary: NY Times Vs. HuffPo
Content, Conversation At Heart Of Difference
Poynter, Jun 20, 2011, 3:22 PM EDT
Stev Myers on the difference between Huffington Post and The New York Times: "I don’t think the key difference is aggregation, traffic or employees. It’s that one site values content in the service of conversation; the other values conversation in the service of content." Link | Add comment
NYT Uses Twitter As A Database
The New York Times, Jun 16, 2011, 7:31 AM EDT
NYT Takes Preemptive Strike Agianst Lodsys
BetaBeat, Jun 14, 2011, 3:07 PM EDT
The New York Times has filed suit against Lodsys, a patent firm (some might say troll) that has been targeting Apple developers. The suit, as well as one from market research firm Opinion Lab, are a counterstrike to ensure that “they sue Lodsys before Lodsys sues them.” Link | Add comment
David Carr: 'The Web Is Like A Self-Cleaning Oven'
Interview, Jun 14, 2011, 2:06 PM EDT
Gay Talese On NYT Past, Present And Future
Vanity Fair, Jun 14, 2011, 2:06 PM EDT
NYT Local East Village Blog Taps Maurer For Editor
Fishbowl NY, Jun 13, 2011, 3:20 PM EDT
NYT's Jill Abramson Signs Up For Twitter
Nieman Journalism Lab, Jun 10, 2011, 3:01 PM EDT
NYT Paywall Helps Boost Print Subscriptions
Business Insider, Jun 10, 2011, 2:44 PM EDT
The New York Times paywall has led to an increase in print subscriptions for the newspaper. Henry Blodget: "The New York Times' digital paywall is not only helping the digital business develop a meaningful new revenue stream ... It's helping to sustain the paper's core print business." Link | Add comment
Huffington Post Tops NY Times In Traffic
Forbes, Jun 10, 2011, 8:34 AM EDT
The Huffington Post attracted 35.6 million unique visitors in May, versus 33.6 million for The New York Times, according to comScore. It's the first time ever HuffPo has topped the Times. However, Forbes' Jeff Bercovici said HuffPo's celebration may be a bit premature, noting that the traffic surge is mostly a function of the site’s integration with AOL. Link | Add comment
AOL's Newsroom Is Now Bigger Than The NYT's
Business Insider, Jun 9, 2011, 8:17 AM EDT
Abramson: 'I'm A Battle-Scarred Veteran'
Guardian, Jun 9, 2011, 8:13 AM EDT
Media Buyers Don't Know Jill Abramson
Adweek, Jun 7, 2011, 3:05 PM EDT
Keller: Everybody's Watching NYT's Paywall
Esquire, Jun 7, 2011, 8:20 AM EDT
Bill Keller: "I think everybody's watching to see how the paywall will work. There are people who think the paywall is itself a violation of some kind of dogma. ... Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price. Better to acknowledge the price and look at it, rather than have it siphoned out of your bank account secretly." Link | Add comment
Q&A With NYT's David Carr
Carr: I Don't Believe In Old/New Media Split
Baristanet, Jun 7, 2011, 8:09 AM EDT
New York Times columnist David Carr: "I don’t believe in the sort of bifurcation of old and new. The whole 'we’re old world media, we make phone calls and we put them in the newspaper' and 'we’re new media and we grab whatever’s in the ether and put it up.' There’s been this steady march toward each other and what you’re doing is no different from what I do." Link | Add comment
NYT Rewards Subs With Exclusive Content
Nieman Journalism Lab, Jun 6, 2011, 9:00 AM EDT
Membership does have its privileges: The New York Times e-mailed its paying subscribers an exclusive look behind the paper's coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden. Link | Add comment
Q&A With NYT's Bill Keller
Keller: I Wanted To Go While It Was Still Fun
Forbes, Jun 3, 2011, 7:43 AM EDT
Bill Keller: "I wanted to go while I was still having fun, before it became boring or frustrating. There’ve been moments when it was boring or frustrating, and moments when it was infuriating, but mostly it’s been fun and still is. And I wanted to go when I felt confident that there was a a good bench of people to step up and lead the place, which there clearly is." Link | Add comment
Jill Abramson To Replace Bill Keller At NYT
NetNewsCheck, Jun 2, 2011, 2:33 PM EDT
Jill Abramson was named executive editor for The New York Times, the newspaper announced today. A former investigative reporter and Washington bureau chief and managing editor for the paper since 2003, she succeeds Bill Keller, who is stepping down to write full time for The Times. Abramson becomes the newspaper's first female executive editor. Keller has made headlines lately for his views on social media and The Huffington Post. | Add comment
NYT Denies Hacking E-Mail Of Goldman's Tourre
Yahoo News, Jun 2, 2011, 7:44 AM EDT
NYT Tapped Into Goldman Exec’s E-mail For Story
Reuters, Jun 1, 2011, 7:22 AM EDT
Lincoln Subs Get 80% Off NYT iPad App
PaidContent, May 31, 2011, 3:34 PM EDT
The New York Times is supplementing the marketing deal with automaker Lincoln that offered free access to NYTimes.com and mobile apps by offering a $35 iPad add on to the roughly 100,000 comp subscriptions for the rest of the year. Link | Add comment
NYT Heir Could Win Big If Paywall Succeeds
Adweek, May 31, 2011, 3:34 PM EDT
David Perpich, heir to The New York Times' Ochs-Sulzberger family, who helped the newspaper with its digital innovation efforts, could have the most to gain if the Times' paywall is a success. Link | Add comment
NYT CEO: We Jumped On Horse Of Change
Forbes, May 20, 2011, 8:15 AM EDT
While New York Times executive editor Bill Keller may have his doubts about Twitter, CEO Janet Robins is content with the way the newspaper is wading into the social media flood: "The New York Times has more than 3 million Twitter followers on its main account. That is nearly 2 million more than any other newspaper. We’re proud of that." Link | Add comment
NYT Finds 850 New Ways To Sell Print Subs
Poynter, May 18, 2011, 3:30 PM EDT
INMA World Congress
After Paywall, Sulzberger Eyes Social Media
INMA, May 18, 2011, 8:36 AM EDT
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, on the paper's social efforts: "The world is moving to social, and you've got to be part of the discussion. That's what drove us. ... We need to make sure we are part of the conversation and part of the linking, and the monetization will build." Link | Add comment
NYT To Debut Video Wedding Announcements
Beet.tv, May 12, 2011, 3:12 PM EDT
NYT's Bill Keller Riles Up The Twitterverse
The Atlantic Wire, May 12, 2011, 8:30 AM EDT
NYT Share Of Web Traffic Hits 12-Month Low
Advertising Age, May 11, 2011, 2:20 PM EDT
The New York TImes' share of U.S. pages views for all newspaper sites dropped to 10.6% in April -- its first full month behind the paywall -- down from 13% in March, its lowest point in 12 months, according to comScore. Link | Comments (1)
Users Report Major Issues With NYT Apps
Adweek, May 11, 2011, 8:22 AM EDT
Since The New York Times riased its paywall in late March, many users running the paper's app on Android phones have reported that the app crashes or freezes on a regular basis, making it essentially unusable. Link | Add comment
NYT's Nisenholtz Takes Over Paper's About Group
PaidContent, May 11, 2011, 7:22 AM EDT
NYT Digi Chief: 300K Sub Goal ‘Inaccurate’
BBC, May 4, 2011, 3:08 PM EDT
Martin Nisenholtz, head of The New York Times' digital operations, said that the reported goal of reaching 300,000 digital subscribers by the end of the year is inaccurate. "I don't know where that number came from. ... We have not released any targets to the public," he said. PaidContent's Staci Kramer notes that the number was published in The New York Times: “The Times will not say publicly how many online subscribers it hopes to get. But company executives have said privately that the goal for the first year is 300,000,” Jeremy Peters wrote in March. The interview of Nisenholtz begins at minute 18.] Link | Add comment
NYT Paywall Doesn't Open For Bin Laden
Nieman Journalism Lab, May 2, 2011, 4:14 PM EDT
When The New York Times' paywall went up in March, publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said the paywall could be opened when a big story hits, allowing users to read as much coverage as they want. However, The Times paywall remained up when the biggest news story story since its launch -- the death of Osama bin Laden -- broke last night. Link | Add comment
Sulzberger: Dangerous Journalism Is Worth It
Adweek, Apr 28, 2011, 7:53 AM EDT
At the New York Times Co.’s annual meeting on Wednesday, chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. talked up the paper's new paywall and alluded to the kidnapping of its journalists in Libya: "Dangerous and complicated stories are worth paying for.” Link | Add comment
With Growth, WikiLeaks Loses Some Control
The New York Times, Apr 27, 2011, 3:09 PM EDT
WikiLeaks has become such a large player in journalism that some of its secrets are no longer its own to control. The site's Sunday release of files related to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was sped up when WikiLeaks learned that two news organizations that were collaborators in the past but were explicitly shut out this time -- The New York Times and The Guardian -- were preparing their own Guantánamo stories, having obtained the information independently. Link | Add comment
NYT's Print Biz Shrinks, Digital Won't Save It
Business Insider, Apr 26, 2011, 2:32 PM EDT
The New York Times' core business, its print newspaper, has seen its revenue and operating profit decline over the past six years, and its digital business, however successful, cannot replace the lost revenue and profitability of the print business. Link | Add comment
Over Half of 2011's NYT Issues Rely On WikiLeaks
The Atlantic Wire, Apr 26, 2011, 7:51 AM EDT
HuffPo Poaches Reporter Tom Zeller From NYT
Business Insider, Apr 25, 2011, 8:50 AM EDT
NYT Tool Follows Its Content In Social Space
Nieman Journalism Lab, Apr 25, 2011, 8:08 AM EDT
The New York Times Research and Development Lab has created a time-based representation of how the paper's news content is being shared in Twitter's social space, dubbed Project Cascade.  
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NYT's Meter Vs. The London Times Paywall
PaidContent, Apr 25, 2011, 7:03 AM EDT
The New York Times recently erected a metered "pay fence" that charges some readers for access to the site but still allows non-subscribers to read articles, while The Times of London opted for a paywall that has deliberately shed the vast majority of its visitors. While the U.K. paper is pitching to advertisers the quality of its smaller audience, the NY Times is employing a "have-your-cake-and-eat-it strategy." Link | Add comment
The Top Five News Sites In The U.S.
Poynter, Apr 22, 2011, 7:46 AM EDT
Poynter merged comScore's data on newspaper websites with its data on general news and information sites to come up with an unofficial list of the most visited news sites in the U.S. during March. The top 5:
  • Yahoo News Network
  • CNN Network
  • MSNBC Digital Network
  • AOL News
  • The New York Times Brand
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NYT CEO: Paywall Will Cost $13M In 2011
PaidContent, Apr 21, 2011, 3:18 PM EDT
The New York Times Co. president and CEO Janet Robinson expects that incremental costs associated with the paywall will be $13 million over the course of 2011. Link | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
Early Numbers Nice, But Growth Is Nicer
Nieman Journalism Lab, Apr 21, 2011, 3:11 PM EDT
Nieman Journalism Labs' Joshua Benton on The New York Times' claims to 100,000 digital subscriptions: "The most important question, I think, is one we're not any closer to answering: not where that number is today, but what the growth curve will look like over time." Link | Add comment
NYT Quarterly report
NY Times: We've Passed 100K Digital Subs
NetNewsCheck, Apr 21, 2011, 2:23 PM EDT
The New York Times Co. in its first-quarter earnings report released today said that its paywall launched late last month has already generated more than 100,000 digital subscribers. Full Story | Add comment
News.Me Social News App Debuts
The New York Times, Apr 21, 2011, 8:08 AM EDT
News.me, the long-awaited social news service developed in collaboration with Betaworks, a technology incubator, and The New York Times Co., debuts today. Link | Add comment
Aggregator News.Me Readys For Launch
All Things Digital, Apr 20, 2011, 7:47 AM EDT
Bit.ly's news aggregator app News.me, which has the blessing of some big news publishers, is close to launching at a price of 99 cents per week or $34.99 for a year. Link | Add comment
Daily Mail Passes HuffPo In Web Traffic
The Atlantic Wire, Apr 19, 2011, 3:03 PM EDT
According to comScore, U.K. news publication MailOnline achieved a 27% rise in unique visitors between February and last month, to 39,635,000, while a 20% lift at the Huffington Post took it to 38,429,000. Both papers trail The New York Times in total traffic. Link | Add comment
Chart: The Battle For Global News Supremacy
PaidContent, Apr 19, 2011, 9:06 AM EDT
Paywall Is Key To NYT's Survival
Adweek, Apr 19, 2011, 8:17 AM EDT
The New York Times Co. will have good news to report at its annual meeting next week: It ended 2010 with $400 million in cash. But most of that money came from the company's decision to offload real estate and its stake in the Boston Red Sox. Many analysts believe the key to the Times' future success is its digital  pay strategy. Link | Add comment
Why The NYT Pays Its Op-Ed Writers
Forbes, Apr 14, 2011, 3:32 PM EDT
NYT Traffic Dips After Paywall Goes Up
NetNewsCheck, Apr 12, 2011, 8:52 AM EDT
A new study from online intelligence firm Experian Hitwise found that visits and page views for The New York Times Web site decreased after the site activated its paywall on March 28. The firm compared total visits and total page views during the 12 days prior and the 12 days following the paywall's launch. Total visits to NYTimes.com slipped 5% to 15% after the paywall went up, Hitwise director of research Heather Dougherty wrote in a blog post, while page views dropped 11% to 30% during the same period. | Add comment
NYT Pitches Metered Access On TV
PaidContent, Apr 11, 2011, 8:18 AM EDT
The New York Times has rolled out its first two television advertisements in its efforts to inform and change reader perception of its new digital pay plan. The second ad can be seen here.  
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NYT-Lincoln Deal Is About Dollars, Traffic
Newsonomics, Apr 8, 2011, 3:24 PM EDT
Ken Doctor says The New York Times' deal with Ford Motors' Lincoln is more nuanced than it seems: "It’s just one deal, but it points to the fact that the new business model in creation will be based more on digital advertising than digital circulation. Making that new interplay work is as important as setting prices and deciding how to restrict content accces for anyone putting up a paywall, pay fence or pay obstacle of any kind." Link | Add comment
Why NYT Paywall Rev Estimates Are Wrong
Scout Analytics, Apr 8, 2011, 8:36 AM EDT
Acout Analytics Matt Shanahan says the primary logic used by the naysayers of The New York Times paywall is that not enough people will pay the minimum $195/year. But predictions of revenue based on consumer payment is simply wrong. By ditching the anchor price of free, the NYT paywall creates at least three new sources of revenue. Link | Add comment
NYTimes.com Promo Offers 50% Off Digital Access
PaidContent, Apr 7, 2011, 8:43 AM EDT
NYT Paywall Cost: Closer To $25M
PaidContent, Apr 7, 2011, 8:35 AM EDT
Commentary: HuffPo Vs. NYT
Why Huffington Is Keller’s Somali Pirate
Aaron Bady, Apr 6, 2011, 2:44 PM EDT
NYT: $40M Paywall Cost Estimate Is ‘Wrong’
PaidContent, Apr 6, 2011, 7:11 AM EDT
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., during a Q&A at Columbia University, said the reports that The New York Times spent $40 million on its paywall were inaccurate: “I’m happy to tell you it’s vastly wrong, it was much less. Don’t use that number. It’s not accurate.” Link | Add comment
Commentary
Who’s Afraid Of Arianna Huffington?
BuzzMachine, Apr 5, 2011, 8:25 AM EDT
Commentary
Talbott: NYT Interview Unfair To Huffington
Huffington Post, Apr 4, 2011, 3:45 PM EDT
Author John Talbott on The New York Times Magazine's interview of Arianna Huffington: "Expecting The New York Times to interview Arianna Huffington fairly is a bit like thinking that 'Candle Makers Weekly' would have granted an unbiased interview to Thomas Edison." Link | Add comment
Sorrell: Consumers Should Pay For Content
Newsweek, Apr 4, 2011, 3:27 PM EDT
Sir MartinSorrell, head of ad agency WPP Group, comes down in favor of The New York Times' new paywall, "Advertising-only models don’t work ... There isn’t enough advertising to go around. Period." He adds, "Consumers must pay for content if they value it." Link | Add comment
'The Atlantic' Helps Readers 'Trim' The NYT
Nieman Journalism Lab, Apr 4, 2011, 9:04 AM EDT
The Atlantic Wire is now providing a daily summary of the best content in The New York Times, helping readers navigate stories within an ecosystem that, from the payment perspective, punishes aimless exploration. Link | Add comment
Q&A with Arianna Huffington
Huffington To NYT: 'I Didn't Kill Newspapers'
The New York Times, Apr 1, 2011, 3:08 PM EDT
Arianna Huffington and The New York Times executive editor Bill Keller have been engaged in a very public squabble recently, but that hasn't stopped the paper's Andrew Goldman from interviewing the Huffington Post founder for this weekend's New York Times Magazine. The interview is a bit contentious at times. Huffington: "If you’re going to accuse the Huffington Post Media Group of theft and piracy and you’re following Journalism 101 ground rules, you provide some evidence." Link | Add comment
NYT Clean Washed Away By Times Legal
Nieman Journalism Lab, Apr 1, 2011, 2:42 PM EDT
The Canadian coder who came up with the four lines of JavaScript that subverted The New York Times paywall has been sent a cease-and-desist letter from NYT's legal department asking him to stop using the name NYTClean. Link | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
Is Jumping The NYT Paywall Stealing?
Nieman Journalism Lab, Mar 31, 2011, 8:51 AM EDT
Megan Garber: "The paper's public establishment of a certain 'kind of people' -- a class who not only read the Times, but pay for it -- is interesting for several reasons, one of them being its suggestion that there is also a 'kind of people' (potentially adolescent, probably unemployed, and possibly morally bankrupt) who wouldn't pay but would still consume Times content beyond the newspaper's stated bounds." Link | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
Keller's Argument For Paywall Unnecessary
Capital New York, Mar 30, 2011, 3:04 PM EDT
Tom McGeveran: "Bill Keller's first two columns have irritated me, as a Times reader, by breaking two rules: They have sought to explain to me a paper I believed I knew pretty well already, and the explanations don't match my perception; and they sound discordant notes of apology and belligerence that make me feel embattled on behalf of this newly strange institution against a horde I never much cared to bother with before, and somewhat resent being bothered with now." Link | Add comment
D'Oh! NYT Gets Own Blog Name Wrong In Ad
Fishbowl NY, Mar 30, 2011, 2:40 PM EDT
Commentary: NYT Paywall
Ulanoff: NYT Paywall A Good Idea
PCMag.com , Mar 30, 2011, 2:22 PM EDT
PCMag's Lance Ulanoff: "Without another consistent and significant source of revenue, no company, not even [a company] as big as The New York Times, can afford to give away its best stuff for free indefinitely. That's not business, it's charity." Link | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
$40M Could Have Been Used Elsewhere
Bnet, Mar 30, 2011, 7:37 AM EDT
The New York Times reportedly spent some $40 million developing its new paywall. Journalist Erik Sherman posits that The Times may have been better served investing that money in startups: "That could have been the tidy start of a venture capital fund whose purpose was to keep pay for the NYT news operations. ... If run correctly, that $40 million returns $100 million. Put $40 million back to work again and $60 million is now left for the news business." Link | Add comment
Commentary
Salmon: NYT Editor Doesn't Do Transparency
Reuters, Mar 29, 2011, 2:48 PM EDT
Felix Salmon on New York Times executive editor Bill Keller's criticism of a column from former Times writer Peter Goodman on The Huffington Post: "The NYT needs to make its mind up: is it going to stand up for openness and transparency and human reporters who dare to have opinions, or is its beef with HuffPo going to force a retreat to some unobtainable halcyon past where reporters handed down the news from Mount Olympus to a grateful public which had no means to effectively respond?" Link | Add comment
Ex-Googlers Launch ‘NYT For A Nickel’ Stunt
PaidContent, Mar 29, 2011, 8:44 AM EDT
Calvin Young and Noah Ready-Campbell left Google two months ago to start Minno, a company dedicated to reviving the idea of micropayments as a way to monetize content on the Web. This weekend, they hatched a plan to grab some much-needed attention for Minno, using The New York Times' new paywall as the target. It took only about an hour befor the Times asked them to shut the site down. Link | Add comment
Aspera Helps Pubs Move Big Files Quickly
Beet.tv, Mar 29, 2011, 8:30 AM EDT
Start-up Aspera has developed a way to send big video files from computers and mobile devices to a special server at speeds far in excess of FTP. The system is being used by The New York Times to manage its video distribution from the field.   Link | Add comment
GE, NYT, And 'Tweeting The Record Straight'
Business Insider, Mar 29, 2011, 8:00 AM EDT
Kindle Users Get Free NYT Web Access
GeekWire , Mar 29, 2011, 7:54 AM EDT
Amazon.com said that Kindle customers who have purchased a subscription of The New York Times on the Kindle will be able to access the newspaper's Web site at no extra charge. Link | Add comment
NYT Offers Online Subscriptions For $1
Mashable, Mar 28, 2011, 3:04 PM EDT
The New York Times is offering a heavily discounted digital subscription rate of $0.99 for the first four weeks. Link | Add comment
NAA MEDIA.XCHANGE 2011
Nisenholtz: Papers' Content Not To Be Stolen
NetNewsCheck, Mar 28, 2011, 1:02 PM EDT
Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president of digital operations at The New York Times Co., told NAA media.Xchange conference attendees that newspapers need to own their own platform to make money in the Web 2.0 world. Full Story | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
NYT Paywall’s Biggest Foe Is Perception
PaidContent, Mar 28, 2011, 8:22 AM EDT
Staci Kramer: "The clearest aspect [of The New York Times' new pay plan] so far is how hard it is to cut through preconceptions, particularly when flexibility and complexity are involved. Link | Add comment
New York Times Paywall Goes Up Today
NetNewsCheck, Mar 28, 2011, 7:44 AM EDT
The long-awaited and much debated pricing plan for The New York Times finally goes into effect at 2 p.m. today. When it goes live, readers who do not subscribe to digital or print editions of the paper will hit the paywall after reading 20 stories in a month. A limited amount of stories can be accessed via links from search engines and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The Times will offer three tiers of digital access: NYTimes.com and the smartphone app ($15/month); Web site plus tablet app ($20/month); full digital access ($35/month). The home page, section fronts, blog fronts and classifieds will remain free. | Add comment
Bob Herbert To Leave The Times
The New York Times, Mar 25, 2011, 3:32 PM EDT
NYT: Tweet Us, But Don't Use Our Logo
Forbes, Mar 25, 2011, 3:04 PM EDT
Commentary: NYT Paywall
NYT Paywall Arrives And It's No Big Deal
ClickZ, Mar 25, 2011, 3:30 PM EDT
Isobar vice president of social media Gary Stein: "The good news, however, is that this paywall is pretty forgiving. It's the sort of paywall that a publisher who is deeply aware of the way that online networks have changed the ways in which people keep up with what's going on and find interesting news to read." Link | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
Silver: There Are Few Good NYT Substitutes
The New York Times, Mar 25, 2011, 8:20 AM EDT
Nate Silver, author of the FiveThirtyEight blog now found on The New York Times, weighed in on the paper's paywall: "I’m less sympathetic to the notion ... that there are a lot of good substitutes for The New York Times. Certainly there are some good substitutes: depending on the type of coverage you’re looking for, The Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal or CNN or ESPN.com. Of course, some of these substitutes already charge for digital access, are also having trouble balancing their budgets, or both." Link | Add comment
UK Times To Model Paywall Upgrade On NYT
PaidContent, Mar 25, 2011, 6:57 AM EDT
Newsonomics
Sunday Paper/Tablet Plans Could Be Future
Nieman Journalism Lab, Mar 24, 2011, 3:50 PM EDT
Author Ken Doctor on dropping daily editions for a Sunday print and daily tablet model: "The math is clear, and aspirational. Keep the Sunday reader, the Sunday reader income, and the Sunday ad revenue. Keep the daily attention of readers through digital access." Link | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
NYT Pay Plan Promotes Mobile Web
Poynter, Mar 24, 2011, 2:55 PM EDT
Poynter's Damon Kiesow thinks that The New York Times' new pay plan is trying to promote the mobile Web over native apps on tablet computers: "Rather than favoring print, perhaps the Times is moving to de-emphasize native mobile apps and the stranglehold Apple has over that ecosystem." Link | Add comment
Sulzberger: Apps Prove Readers Will Pay
The Paley Center, Mar 23, 2011, 3:59 PM EDT
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. -- appearing with NYT president and CEO Janet Robinson at the Paley Center's Media Council roundtable breakfast -- said that the rise of tablets and apps has opened the door for newspapers to charge for content. Sulzberger also said that the only people who would game the Times[Action starts at 6:40]
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Commentary: NYT Paywall
NYT Paywall Could End Up A Success
Reuters, Mar 23, 2011, 8:26 AM EDT
Felix Salmon: "I’m beginning to come around to the idea that the paywall can make good financial sense -- if everything goes according to plan. ... The NYT will surely proclaim the paywall to be a success no matter what happens. But if total pageviews don’t fall and digital advertising revenue increases, then it’s going to be pretty hard to make the case that the paywall was a bad idea." Link | Add comment
NYT Asks Twitter To Block Paywall Jumper
Forbes, Mar 23, 2011, 8:19 AM EDT
The New York Times has asked Twitter to disable the FreeNYTimes feed that used the newspaper's own application programming interface to help it automatically link to every story in the paper. Link | Add comment
Commentary: Paywalls and Pay Strategies
Buch: Charging For News Is A Bad Model
Bob Buch, Mar 23, 2011, 7:40 AM EDT
AOL vice president of business development Bob Buch: " The business model of news distribution is changing dramatically, and we all agree that journalists need to get compensated if we want them to continue the important work they do.  But I would argue that charging consumers to read news articles is not only bad for consumers, it’s also bad for journalists." Link | Add comment
Four Lines Of Code Tears Down The NYT Wall
Nieman Journalism Lab, Mar 22, 2011, 3:26 PM EDT
Canadian coder David Hayes has released NYTClean, a bookmarklet that, with four lines of code, tears down The New York Times' new paywall. Link | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
9 Questions As NYT Paywall Preps For Global
Newsonomics, Mar 22, 2011, 3:02 PM EDT
Author Ken Doctor says The Times' pay plan announcement "raised as many or more questions than it answered," including several pricing questions. Link | Add comment
NYT To Limit Refers From All Search Engines
TechCrunch, Mar 22, 2011, 8:42 AM EDT
The New York Times communications manager Kristin Mason: "After reviewing our options, we decided to extend the policy of five free clicks per day to all major search engines by the global launch on March 28." Link | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
Paywalls Help Support Journalistic Efforts
The New York Times, Mar 21, 2011, 3:53 PM EDT
New York Time media writer David Carr defends The Times and its effort to support quality journalism with its new pay plan: "It seems an odd time to argue against a business initiative that aims at keeping boots on the ground during a time of global upheaval." Link | Add comment
NYT Online Pay Model Was Years In Making
The New York Times, Mar 21, 2011, 8:41 AM EDT
The New York Times has spent much of the past two years planning its new pay model to keep it from suffering the same fate of its failed TimesSelect experiment. Link | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
Finding A Fair Price For The NY Times
Monday Note, Mar 21, 2011, 8:24 AM EDT
Media consultant Frédéric Filloux: "Intellectually stimulating as the exercise might be, when analyzing readers’ migration to digital, you can’t reach useable conclusions through a mere extrapolation of the eroding print model. Nor can you reliably model price elasticity in an electronic medium where 'free' is the rule, 'freemium' the minority, and paid-for the exception." Link | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
Kramer: I'll Pay For NYT, Not The Daily
C-Scape, Mar 21, 2011, 8:07 AM EDT
Larry Kramer: "In the case of [The New York Times], the content has already proven it's value to me over the many years I have consumed it, in print and on line. ... Contrast that with The Daily, which still needed to prove the value of its content to me." Link | Add comment
Libya To Release NYT Journalists
The New York Times, Mar 18, 2011, 3:04 PM EDT
Lincoln Offers Free NYT Access For All 2011
Advertising Age, Mar 18, 2011, 3:26 PM EDT
The New York Times has built in one more loophole to its online pay plan that it did not mention yesterday: Interstitial ads from automaker Lincoln on The Times' Web site are offering some readers "Free, Unlimited Access to NYTimes.com" for the rest of the year. Link | Add comment
Commentary
NYT Model Won't Work In Other Markets
Newsosaur, Mar 18, 2011, 3:26 PM EDT
Alan Mutter warns that while The New York Times' new pay plan may turn out to work well for the newspaper, it might not be the answer for other publications: "Most newspapers in the rest of country lack the substantial body of compelling, exclusive content and the unparalleled concentration of wealthy readers that are enjoyed by The Times." Link | Add comment
Media Buyers: Paywall May Boost NYT Ads
PaidContent, Mar 18, 2011, 3:26 PM EDT
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 Times will be able to charge higher rates -- if the newspaper hits the expected number of "heavy users" which may offer proof of "more engaged" readers. Link | Add comment
Q&A with NYT's Janet Robinson
NYT CEO: Any Traffic Dip Will Be Short Term
Advertising Age, Mar 18, 2011, 8:11 AM EDT
The New York Times Co. president and CEO Janet Robinson: "This is a long-term strategy. In the long term, we have the opportunity to not only maintain our audience but to grow it. In the short-term perspective, going to something new in this transition time, there may be a slight dip in traffic." Link | Add comment
Q&A with NYT's Martin Nisenholtz
NY Times Confident Users Will Pay For News
All Things Digital, Mar 18, 2011, 8:02 AM EDT
The New York Times Co. senior vice president of digital operations Martin Nisenholtz: "We are very, very confident, based on three rounds of research with three separate groups of loyalists, three seperate vendors, over three seperate time periods, that the conversion rates among that group are going to be sufficiently high to layer in the second revenue stream." Link | Add comment
New York Times Will Be Sold Through iTunes
All Things Digital, Mar 18, 2011, 7:35 AM EDT
Apple gets its first big publisher to announce it is signing on with the company's new subscription plan: The New York Times says it will sell access to the paper's apps through iTunes, on Apple's new terms. Link | Add comment
NYT Uses Promoted Twitter Trend For Paywall News
Nieman Journalism Lab, Mar 17, 2011, 3:10 PM EDT
Newsonomics of The NYT Pay Fence
NYT Faces Tests Charging For 'General News'
Nieman Journalism Lab, Mar 17, 2011, 3:07 PM EDT
Author Ken Doctor: "Though the [Financial Times] and The Wall Street Journal have long operated successful pay models, [The New York Times'] leap is a big one: The Times isn’t mainly a business newspaper. If it can succeed charging readers for 'general news,' that’s a milestone for newspapers around the world." Link | Add comment
Commentary: NYT Paywall
Outing: NYT Blew It With New Pay Model
SteveOuting.com, Mar 17, 2011, 2:15 PM EDT
Journalist Steve Outing: The New York Times' new pay plan is "a backward-looking strategy that hobbles the potential success of the digital side. I contend that no news organization -- even The New York Times -- can succeed long term when it makes decisions based on looking over its shoulder at the dying legacy product." Link | Add comment
New York Times Announces Paywall Details
NetNewsCheck, Mar 17, 2011, 1:57 PM EDT
The New York Times today announced the details and pricing of its new metered pay plan. The new pricing plan goes into effect immediately in Canada and begins globally on March 28. The newspaper announced three tiers of digital access: NYTimes.com and the smartphone app ($15/month); Web site plus tablet app ($20/month); full digital access ($35/month). Users who don't want to subscribe can read up to 20 stories each month. The home page, section fronts, blog fronts and classifieds will also remain free. | Add comment
Our Take

With free access to only 20 articles per month, The New York Times’ new paywall plan seems to be a bit restrictive. We, along with most other industry watchers, expected the paywall to be much more lenient at first and then tighten up over time. We also expected the price to start lower and gradually rise, as a way to break in a generation of readers that has been accustomed to accessing the news for free. The Times has always been one of our favorite newspapers, but when its new pricing plan goes into effect, it may become much less of a go-to source. It’s almost enough to make me miss my days of commuting into New York and picking up a leftover paper on the train.

Commentary: The New York Times 'Pay fence'
NYT's Pay Launch Comes At A Good Time
Newsonomics, Mar 16, 2011, 2:54 PM EDT
Author Ken Doctor believes the timing is perfect for The New York Times to put up its somewhat porous pay fence: "As news of the roll-up of 'community dailies' by hedge fund owners seeps into the culture, The New York Times can better play its legacy 'trust us' card, with some effect." Link | Add comment
Does NYT Have Journalistic Kleptomania?
The New York Observer, Mar 16, 2011, 11:00 AM EDT
Keller Declares Love For Aggregation
The New York Times, Mar 14, 2011, 7:12 AM EDT
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller started a firestorm last week with a column that seemingly blasted aggregation and Arianna Huffington. But it seems that most people just didn't get it. Keller this week explained that he loves aggregation and Arianna Huffington: "I love aggregation. Aggregating, as I wrote, is what editors do. ... Also, for the record, I like Arianna Huffington." Link | Add comment
How NYT Incorporates Recommendations
Mashable, Mar 11, 2011, 2:40 PM EST
Huffington: Keller's Post 'Lame,' 'Laughable'
Huffington Post, Mar 11, 2011, 7:56 AM EST
Arianna Huffington fired back at New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, who yesterday blasted the Huffington Post's aggregation model and accused the media doyenne of "aggregating" his thoughts: "Keller's attack is as lame as it is laughable." Link | Add comment
NYT Adds Recommendation Features To Stories
Nieman Journalism Lab, Mar 10, 2011, 3:55 PM EST
Commentary
All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate
The New York Times, Mar 10, 2011, 3:06 PM EST
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller: "Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company’s announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter." Link | Add comment
NYT Lawyers Shut Down Ten Ones
NetNewsCheck, Mar 8, 2011, 7:53 AM EST
The New York Times legal department ordered 111-111-1111 (Ten Ones) -- a Tumblr blog run by former Times Web editor Jonathan Paul that highlighted and promoted the "beautiful and unexpected imagery" found in the newspaper -- to shut down and remove its archive. Paul said the blog had a following among Times staffers, but when it came to the attention of the paper's senior counsel, he asked that Paul remove all copyrighted Times content. Newspaper spokesperson Kristin Mason told Reuters that the site was shut down over a copyright issue: "The Tumblr blog was positioned as a NYTimes.com account, and it contained many images from NYTimes.com for which The Times did not own or control the necessary rights." | Add comment
Sulzberger: Paywall Won't Hurt NYT Traffic
Guardian, Mar 3, 2011, 7:50 AM EST
New York Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger, speaking at the Financial Times Digital Media conference in London, maintained that the paper will unveil its metered model shortly and predicted that it will not see a "massive fall in drop in traffic" when it introduces charging for its content. Link | Add comment
NYT Launches New Blog 'The 6th Floor'
The New York Times, Mar 3, 2011, 7:04 AM EST
The New York Times Magazine, in advance of its redesigned print edition, has launched The 6th Floor, a new blog intended "to let readers listen in on the conversations that happen in the office." Link | Add comment
Blogger Still Adjusting To Life In NYT Newsroom
Poynter, Feb 24, 2011, 6:55 AM EST
NYT Goes Beyond Stories With Topic Pages
Nieman Journalism Lab, Feb 24, 2011, 6:42 AM EST
The New York Times created its Topic Pages in 2006 as a way to bring readers more information about issues being covered in the news. John O'Neil, editor of the Times' Topic Pages: "Not everybody comes to a news story with the knowledge you would have if you'd been following the story closely all along. News organizations are set up to deal with the expectation [that people] have read the paper yesterday and the day before." Link | Add comment
NYT Quotes Anonymous Blog Commenter
City Pages, Feb 22, 2011, 2:26 PM EST
A Friday New York Times story from reporter Kate Zernike featured an unattributed quote taken from a commenter on a blog found on Minneapolis-St. Paul's City Pages. A report on the Huffington Post was the first to question the use of the quote. Link | Add comment
NYT Seeks Digi Age Pact With Newspaper Guild
Poynter, Feb 17, 2011, 8:13 AM EST
NYT’s Keller Softens Stance On WikiLeaks
GigaOM, Feb 7, 2011, 8:44 AM EST
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has long held the opinion that WikiLeaks was not a journalistic entity, nor was its founder and editor in chief Julian Assange a journalist. But based on comments Keller made at a symposium at Columbia University on Thursday, he may be changing his mind. Link | Add comment
Survey: NY Times Paywall Will Work
Business Insider, Feb 4, 2011, 8:36 AM EST
The results of a Business Insider survey indicate that The New York Times paywall will see some initial success. The survey found that 10% of those who do not subscribe to the print edition said they will pay for access. Another 10% said they might pay for access. Link | Add comment
NYT Editor: Don't Prosecute Assange
Wired, Feb 4, 2011, 8:36 AM EST
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller may not regard Julian Assange as a journalistic peer, but he made clear Thursday that he doesn’t think the WikiLeaks founder should face criminal prosecution in the United States. Link | Add comment
Commentary
NYT: Recommendations Make News Personal
Nieman Journalism Lab, Feb 2, 2011, 3:55 PM EST
Marc Frons, New York Times chief technical officer for digital operations, on the newspaper's new recommendation engine and where it fits into its broader strategy for user engagement: "The whole idea is to expose our readers to as much of our great journalism as we can. ... [It allows the news organization] to establish a more personal connection between what we do online and what our readers do online.” Link | Add comment
NYT's Bill Keller Defends Metered Paywall
PBS MediaShift, Feb 2, 2011, 8:28 AM EST
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, along with Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet spoke with Marvin Kalb during the latest installment of George Washington University's monthly media discussion, The Kalb Report. The main topics were the Times collaboration with WikiLeaks and its plans to roll out a metered paywall: "People who use The New York Times Web site as their newspaper should pay a little something for it," Keller said. Link | Add comment
NYT Staffers Use iPhone 4 To Gather News
Beet.tv, Feb 2, 2011, 8:09 AM EST
Ann Derry, The New York Times editorial director for video and television, talked to Beet.tv about the newspaper providing reporters with the Apple iPhone 4 to record and upload videos to the paper's server. Link | Add comment
News.me To Be NYT's Answer To 'The Daily'
TechCrunch, Feb 2, 2011, 8:02 AM EST
The New York Times and betaworks are developing their answer to what an iPad news app should be. The collaboration will be called News.me, and it won’t look anything like The Daily. TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld got an early look at the app. Link | Add comment
Industry: NY Times Paywall Plan Flawed
MediaWeek, Jan 31, 2011, 3:02 PM EST
The New York Times is ignoring the deep flaws in its online business model, say industry observers, missing its chance to transform online publishing by instead opting to earn a few quick bucks. Link | Add comment
NYT Considers Own Version Of WikiLeaks
Yahoo News, Jan 26, 2011, 8:20 AM EST
The New York Times is considering options to create an in-house submission system that could make it easier for would-be leakers to provide large files to the paper. The Times would follow the model of Al Jazeera's Transparency Unit, an "anonymous electronic drop box" that launched earlier this month. Link | Add comment
Commentary: Paywalls and Pay Strategies
NY Times Should Follow NPR's Pay Model
Fast Company, Jan 25, 2011, 3:39 PM EST
Anya Kamenetz: "With its large, affluent, reasonably liberal and guilt-ridden audience, the Times would have more monetary success and more brand success with an NPR-like pay-what-you-will membership model with free events, tote bags, and other goodies thrown in." Link | Add comment
Bid To Buy Boston Globe From NYT Finds Backers
MediaPost, Jan 24, 2011, 2:35 PM EST
NY Times Paywall Expected Next Month
The Wall Street Journal, Jan 24, 2011, 6:43 AM EST
The New York Times is expected to roll out its long talked about metered paywall next month. The Times will sell an Internet-only subscription for unlimited access to its site, as well as a broader digital package that bundles the Times online with its application on the iPad. The paper's print subscribers will get full online privileges at no additional cost. Link | Add comment
NYT To Charge Under $20 For Web Access
Bloomberg, Jan 20, 2011, 3:30 PM EST
New York Times Co. will charge readers less than $20 per month for full Web access to its namesake newspaper when the company introduces its paid service, a person familiar with the matter said. Link | Add comment
New Year Brings Delays For Media Launches
Yahoo, Jan 20, 2011, 3:05 PM EST
This January was to bring four major media launches or relaunches: the merger of Newsweek and the Daily Beast; Gawker's redesign; Rupert Murdoch's The Daily iPad newspaper; and The New York Times' metered paywall. But January is almost over, and all the big new projects are still waiting for lift-off. Link | Add comment
Freakonomics To Cut Ties With NYT On March 1
The New York Times, Jan 19, 2011, 7:16 AM EST
Freakonomics Leaving NYT To Start New Venture
Forbes, Jan 14, 2011, 2:56 PM EST
NYT iPad App Nears 1.5M Downloads
Beet.tv, Jan 13, 2011, 3:51 PM EST
Ray Pearce, head of circulation for The New York Times, told Beet.tv that the paper is approaching 1.5 million downloads for its iPad apps and that all platforms -- including print -- are doing well. Link | Add comment
Q&A
NYT Still Pulls Most Traffic From Home Page
PBS MediaShift, Jan 13, 2011, 3:43 PM EST
The New York Times associate managing editor Jim Roberts in a Q&A with PBS MediaShift said that while social media has grown at the Times, a majority of the site's traffic still comes in through the home page. Link | Add comment
NYT's Dealbook Adds Video Elements
Beet.tv, Jan 4, 2011, 3:28 PM EST
The New York Time's Dealbook section add video to capture Wall Street's "character-driven drama," said video producer Mac William Bishop. Link | Add comment
Betaworks, NYT Venture
News.me Starts Accepting Invite Requests
ReadWriteWeb, Dec 31, 2010, 7:59 AM EST
News.me, the social news project being developed by Betaworks and The New York Times, has started accepting invite requests. As part of the partnership deal, The Times took an equity stake in Bit.ly, a URL-shortening service from Betaworks. Link | Add comment
Collaborative Journalism
For CUNY, NYT, Local Has Been Successful
The Local, Dec 31, 2010, 7:07 AM EST
New York Times-backed The Local, a news site covering two Brooklyn neighborhoods, teamed up with the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism that gave students the experience of running a live Web site with an established readership. Link | Add comment
NBC's Brian Williams:
NYT's Brooklyn 'Discovery' Story Of Year
The Nytpicker, Dec 29, 2010, 3:48 PM EST
NYT's 'Public Editor'
Answering Reader Queries About Web Journalism
The New York Times, Dec 27, 2010, 6:44 AM EST
Gawker Hacking Damage Spreads To NYT
All Things Digital, Dec 23, 2010, 2:30 PM EST
Cracking NY Times Most-Emailed List
The Daily Beast, Dec 21, 2010, 8:04 AM EST
The most-emailed articles list on The New York Times Web site is one of the Internet's key barometers of news and trends, an essential way for the world to stumble onto stories and ideas that might otherwise get lost in the ether of the perpetual news cycle. But The Daily Beast found that it only takes a mere 1,300 e-mails to crack the list's top 10. Link | Add comment
HuffPo Hits Record 26M Visitors In November
Beet.tv, Dec 17, 2010, 2:48 PM EST
The Huffington Post registered 26 million unique monthly visitors in the U.S., a record for the site, according the comScore November data for the "Newspaper Sites." That pushes HuffPo to No. 2 among papers, after The New York Times, according to comScore. Link | Add comment
Papers Seek Right Tack On Social Media
Advertising Age, Dec 16, 2010, 7:14 AM EST
The New York Times recently dissolved its social media editor post after less than two years, USA Today appointed its first social media editor and The Wall Street Journal continues to plug ahead with an outreach editor who's been in place for a year. All three newspapers are trying to answer the same questions facing newsrooms everywhere: Should social media belong to a designated editor, to the whole staff or both? Is a staff evangelist for social media ever finished with her work? And what happens when the next big thing bubbles up? Link | Add comment
Commentary: Participatory Journalism
NYT Readers Chime In On News
The New York Times, Dec 13, 2010, 2:24 PM EST
Arthur S. Brisbane: "The system of commenting at The Times owes much of its success to the human beings who actually moderate comments — read them, filter them and decide which ones to publish. This filtering process yields, in many cases, substantive commentary by a readership that feels empowered to participate online — a combination that I believe is of great value." Link | Add comment
New York Times Drops Social Media Post
Poynter Online, Dec 10, 2010, 6:45 AM EST
The New York Times is eliminating its social media editor position as part of its efforts to more fully integrate its print and digital operations. It’s also an acknowledgment that social media needs to be -- and is already -- a shared responsibility. Link | Add comment
NYT Makes Efforts To Prevent Paywall Abuse
Yahoo News, Dec 8, 2010, 7:39 AM EST
At a UBS media conference Tuesday morning, New York Times Co. executives discussed its efforts to "make sure that the first-click-free policy isn't abused in any way." Link | Add comment
Sen. Lieberman On The New York Times:
Printing WikiLeaks Docs May Have Been A Crime
The Hill, Dec 8, 2010, 7:31 AM EST
NYT Drops Hints About Metered Online Model
Poynter, Dec 7, 2010, 4:05 PM EST
In a presentation to the annual UBS Global Media Conference this morning, The New York Times dropped some new hints about how its metered access pay model, scheduled to debut in the first quarter of 2011, will work and the underlying business strategy behind it. Link | Add comment
Comcast-NBCU Merger
NYT, ivi TV Fear Merger Will Kill Competition
MediaPost, Dec 7, 2010, 1:45 PM EST
Graham: WaPo Won't Be Paywall 'Pioneer'
MediaPost, Dec 7, 2010, 8:00 AM EST
The Washington Post will not rush into a paid content model. Washington Post Co. CEO Donald Graham at the 38th annual UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York said the company will watch how The New York Times performs as it institutes fees next year, and how the Times of London succeeds with its current effort: "We're not going to be pioneers on those experiments, but we'll be watching everyone ... we're quite willing to be followers on this front." Link | Add comment
NY Times Adds New Features To Site
The New York Times, Dec 1, 2010, 2:04 PM EST
NYT Looks To WeightWatchers For Web Tips
Reuters, Dec 1, 2010, 8:07 AM EST
The New York Times prepared for its upcoming move to a metered pay model by studying "everything from Consumer Reports to WeightWatchers" to create a strategy to convert free users to paying customers. Link | Add comment
NYT Consolidates Web, Print Operations
Yahoo News, Nov 16, 2010, 2:52 PM EST
The New York Times today announced a Web reorganization that will further consolidate its online and print operations. Web producers will now report directly to their respective desks, according to a report. The newspaper also named digital news editor Jim Roberts assistant managing editor for news. Link | Add comment
NYT To Start Ranking E-Book Best Sellers In 2011
The New York Times, Nov 11, 2010, 3:24 PM EST

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  • Mobile And The Media's Imploding Biz Model

    Michael Wolff: "If the news business on the Web is depressing, contributing to the existential angst that has gripped every established news organization, mobile turns the story apocalyptic: there is no foreseeable basis on which the news establishment can support itself. There is no way even a stripped-down, aggregation-based, unpaid citizen-journalist staffed newsroom can support itself in a mobile world."

  • WashPo Ombud's Paywall Analysis Is Faulty

    Ryan Chittum: "You can't compare nine months of circulation-revenue changes to 12 months of ad-revenue changes and then say the former 'didn't even cover the decline in the latter.' That's like giving somebody a 100 meter headstart in the 400 meters and then talking about how the laggard couldn't even compete, even though they ran faster than the rest of the field."

  • The 'Sharing' Mirage

    Frédéric Filloux on the benefits and pitfalls of teaming up with content distributors: "Media should be very careful with their level of reliance on other content distributors such as Facebook, Google, Apple or Amazon. This can be summed up to a simple question: can we trust them?The short answer is no."

  • Paywalls Open Doors For Local News Sites

    Howard Owens: "As a matter of business reality, when an incumbent business moves deeper into sustaining innovation it opens up opportunities for disruptors. In every market where a newspaper puts up a paywall, an opportunity is created for an entrepreneur to start a local online news business."

  • For Future Of News, Killer App Is Credibility

    Robert Hernandez, an assistant professor of professional practice in journalism at USC Annenberg: "With technology empowering everyone with the ability to create and to distribute, I predict — and wish — that in 2012 the new dominating factor will be Credibility. Actually, earned Credibility."

  • Layoffs, Cutbacks Lead To News Deserts

    Tom Stites: "Desertification is on the march, claiming more and more communities as newspapers continue to wither and few Web efforts manage to replace more than a fraction of the original reporting that newspapers have abandoned."

  • Moneyball: Fixing Newspaper Web Sales

    Mel Taylor: "Today's Newspaper industry is like that once great, but now struggling baseball team playing on a new, hyper-competitive field called the Internet. The veteran print team is stuck in a rut using the same, tired strategy that did serve them well for years, but no longer. Today, they get trounced by those with more money and muscle."

  • The Metric For Missed Expectations

    Matthew Shanahan: "Here’s the problem: [Click-through rates don't] take into account audience engagement, not to mention the fact that other advertisers are competing for the click-through on the same page."

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