The New York Times’ (NYSE: NYT) futurist-in-residence Michael Rogers is leaving the company after two years..he came in to NYT in September 2006, as an R&D consultant with a fancy…

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The professional contrarian Michael Wolff is coming out with his Murdoch biography The Man Who Owns the News early next year, and Vanity Fair runs some excerpts ahead of the…

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-- LA Times: Having operated without an ad sales head since February, the LA Times has appointed a new EVP and chief revenue officer, Scott McKibben. Marking new Times Publisher…

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Q3 is getting off to a rough start at NYTCo… the publisher came out with July numbers showing total revenue fell 10.1 percent to $235.9 million. Ad revenue, which fell…

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NYTimes.com has been quietly rolling out a series of sub-sections this month, in hopes of attracting more B-to-B advertisers. By mid-September, new sub-sections will be added to the toolbars of…

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-- Sun-Times Media Group: The Tribune Company’s Chicago rival is outsourcing its print and online classified ad sales to New York-based Classifieds Plus. The effort is part of a $50…

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Like every other newspaper, NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) stock has had a terrible year, as it currently trades 43 percent below its highs. At $13.45, it’s a bit off of its…

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-- *Yahoo* Newspaper Consortium: While Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) does not release the financials related to its Newspaper Consortium, but some of the ad and content alliance’s members do. Last week,…

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Opening the call by immediately citing the troubled economy and the challenges faced by the newspaper industry at large, Janet Robinson, NYTCo.’s president and CEO, sought to highlight a few…

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Citing the effects of the weak economy, NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) announced Q2 revenue of $741.9 million, a 6 percent year-over-year decline from $788.9 million. Net income on a continuing basis…

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NYTimes.com is working with LinkedIn on targeting news stories and ads at their respective readers and members, the two said in a joint announcement. For the past few months, LinkedIn…

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Yesterday we mentioned about the war of words between NYT’s digital side and WSJ.com....now today some more interesting new projects scheduled to go live at NYTimes.com this fall, as mentioned…

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If Murdoch can publicly talk about his intentions to topple New York Times (NYSE: NYT) in a few months, the NYT’s digital brass can also fire back, if only in…

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-- NBCU: Veteran program exec Jamila Hunter has been hired to the new position of SVP-programming and development for NBC Entertainment’s alternative and digital unit. Hunter will now be responsible…

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Scott Meyer, the former CEO of About.com who left the company in February this year, is joining private equity firm Warburg Pincus, as Entrepreneur-in-Residence, starting today. Meyer will be based…

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-- *Meredith* Corp.: Meredith (NYSE: MDP) has named Tom Harty chief revenue officer for the publishing group, according to AP. Formerly a magazine publishing exec, he will continue to oversee…

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-- ESPN360.com Will Carry Exclusive Live Cricket Coverage: ESPN360.com has the exclusive U.S. broadband rights to live and replay coverage of the 2008 Asian Cup Cricket Tournament from Pakistan June…

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Updated below: The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is still going through the throes of figuring out what to do with International Herald Tribune, and how to position it,…

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I’ve spent some time off and on today with the latest tool from NYTimes.com: TimesPeople, a Firefox add-on that functions as a combo recommendation engine and low-frills social network. The…

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-- Tribune: As industry economics deteriorate, speculation heightens that Sam Zell’s uber-leveraged Tribune Co. will be forced to file bankruptcy sooner rather than later. S&P analyst Emile Courtney told Bloomberg:…

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The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), through International Herald Tribune, is close to picking up a 5 percent stake in Hyderabad, India-based publisher Deccan Chronicle Holding (DCHL), according to…

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Scott Meyer stepped down last February as About.com CEO. Since then, the New York Times Co (NYSE: NYT). unit has been run by NYTCo’s top digital exec Martin Nisenholtz with…

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-- IPG’s investment strategy: Forget Interpublic Group’s ad strategy; their investment activity is much more interesting… At the Deutsche Bank conference this week, IPG CEO Michael Roth reviewed the company’s…

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Straight from the “world’s largest climbing wall”, as they were introduced, a panel led of senior executives led by CEO Janet Robinson talked strategy at the Deutsche Bank Media &…

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Updated with video clips below courtesy of AllThingsD Rupert Murdoch, the new owner of D conference, and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), is speaking in the last keynote of the day…

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