FT Group profit rose 21 percent to £84 million ($167 million) on 11 percent better revenue of £374 million ($743 million) in the first half of the year, supposedly on…

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The Wall Street Journal, now part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is going to stop carrying the long running Breakingviews daily opinion columns in its paper, reports Guardian. WSJ Europe…

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FT.com is promoting online advertising director Rob Grimshaw to managing director, effectively replacing outgoing managing editor and publisher Ien Cheng. Grimshaw had been involved in developing the new, third-way access…

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FT.com managing editor and publisher Ien Cheng, the Financial Times’ most senior digital executive, is quitting the company to take up the post of director of product management for advertising…

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FT.com will tomorrow begin giving free site subscriptions to college students via Facebook, the site has told us. The news site will launch an app that gives users a PIN…

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FT added 13 percent more digital subscribers in 2007, taking it up to 101,000. In the year it remodeled its subs strategy to let out more free stories but keep…

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Certainly among the costliest social networking services to launch till date: The Financial Times is launching a £1,700-a-year (about $3,350) membership for one of three new networking sites...the service, called…

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Pearson (NYSE: PSO) has confirmed the sale of its 50 percent stake in FT Deutschland to Hamburg-based magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, which already owned the other half. The deal…

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The number of people registering with FT.com ”went from 200 to 400 a week up to between 15,000 and 17,000 a week” since introducing a new access model in November,…

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From our new site paidContent:UK: Following FT.com’s announcement it is partially dropping its £99 ($110) pay wall, site publisher and managing editor Ien Cheng told me the new approach will…

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From our new site paidContent:UK: Change is coming in FT.com’s business model. The site will on Monday announce it will allow consumers to read articles or data up to 30…

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What a difference a takeover makes. Analysts revised their verdict on Financial Times parent Pearson (NYSE:PSO) today, with the company likely to face tough competition from the combination of both…

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A reminder that life goes on at Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) while the buyout by News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) wends its way to a close ... DJ announced today that,…

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Last week we mentioned a research note by Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anmuth, who did a detailed number-crunching and analysis of the scenarios if WSJ.com became open. Today, UBS analysts…

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Putting into context some fears of editorial cuts at Pearson, if it buys Dow Jones, Bloomberg says it will hire 240 journalists this year to its 2,300-strong news business (180…

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Lots of commentary and speculation following the “news” this weekend that Pearson is mulling a joint bid on Dow Jones, along with GE. Among them: -- Telegraph: Pearson’s third largest…

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Some interesting explanations on last week’s news of a single-copy price hike at the FT (and WSJ) from FT CEO John Ridding in today’s Independent: “In the new media age,…

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On Friday we reported on Pearson looking at bidding for Dow Jones, and that it may tie-up with GE, which has also been looking at the possibility of a joint…

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Pearson PLC, publisher of FT (the other most expensive daily business newspaper), is trying to pull together a bid for Dow Jones. According…

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Indicating confidence readers will still pay for accurate business information despite the availability of the internet, Wall Street Journal will increase its US newsstand price from $1 to $1.50 from…

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The season of website and service upgrades in UK: -- Sky says it will do a massive overhaul of its digital offer. The new portal, possibly launching this summer, will…

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Lots of speculation in the UK market earlier today about Financial Times and its parent Pearson finally being put up for sale, though the origin of the report is UK’s…

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The Financial Times’ transition to a multimedia operation was a painful but necessary process, said editor Lionel Barber. The move cost 50 jobs and took a serious chunk out of…

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I mentioned FT’s earnings this morning...in a follow up story, Guardian reports that parent company Pearson’s CEO Marjorie Scardino admitted that the ability of its flagship Financial Times title to…

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The Financial Times has made a $9.34 million profit in the first half of the year, reversing a $3.74 million loss in the first half last year, parent company Pearson…

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