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Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 17 Sep 2007 02:41 PM PST
No more orange Ts on the content at NYTimes.com as of midnight Tuesday. We have confirmed that The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Company is shutting down TimesSelect exactly two…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 12 Sep 2007 11:26 AM PST
While year-to-year revenues from operations and general advertising remained weak in August, the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) reported that online ad revs were still healthy, coming in 28…
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 10 Sep 2007 01:30 PM PST
It’s Fashion Week in New York, the annual runway event when all the major fashion houses display their spring collections for buyers and the media. While the industry has tended…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 09 Sep 2007 09:34 PM PST
A few nuggets from an NYT (NYSE: NYT) First Look post about Times Reader by Rob Larson, Vice President, Product Management, NYTimes.com, reporting the results of a survey taken by…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 31 Aug 2007 12:00 PM PST
Not that it will affect anything it does with online, but could possibly be a pre-cursor to ending TimesSelect, as has been rumored for a while: New York Times (NYSE:…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 16 Aug 2007 08:24 AM PST
The July numbers are in for the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) and it’s a better story than the month before with a lower overall ad revenue drop year…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 09 Aug 2007 06:11 PM PST
From the 10-Q filed by The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) today: -- 95 percent of About.com’s revenues in the first half of 2007 are derived from the advertising—display…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 09 Aug 2007 08:25 AM PST
This week Google News (Nasdaq: GOOG) took another step away from its original algorithm-centric mission by offering news subjects the option of posting comments about articles in which they or…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 07 Aug 2007 07:54 AM PST
Not much has changed since the last time we updated you on the status of NYT premium service TimesSelect but a new report this morning by the NY Post has…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 30 Jul 2007 10:04 PM PST
In the latest political media pairing, the New York Times and MSNBC.com will share coverage of the 2008 presidential election. MSNBC.com will get political content from NYTimes.com while the Times’…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 25 Jul 2007 10:52 AM PST
From the earnings call for NYTCO (NYSE: NYT): Janet Robinson, CEO and president, focused on new media initiatives. She noted that the new mobile site traffic has more than tripled…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 25 Jul 2007 05:53 AM PST
Citing the same industry-wide downward pressure on newspaper advertising that’s been afflicting its competitors the past few quarters, The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) said Q2 income from continuing…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 23 Jul 2007 02:43 PM PST
The NY Post uses an unflattering image of Arthur Sulzberger Jr. to accompany an equally unflattering story suggesting that premium service TimesSelect may be on the way out. (Hard not…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 18 Jul 2007 06:02 AM PST
A fuller picture of the newspaper slump will be revealed this week, as Gannett releases its Q2 report today, with Dow Jones and McClatchy reporting on Thursday. WSJ takes an…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 21 Jun 2007 05:58 PM PST
Daylife, the much-hyped online news aggregation site which launched for public consumption in January but hasn’t gained much traction as of yet, has raised $8 million in second round of…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 20 Jun 2007 11:37 AM PST
The NYT is joining WSJ and FT in raising its newsstand price ... NYTCO CEO Janet Robinson told the Newspaper Association of America’s Mid-Year Media Review the paper will raise…
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 19 Jun 2007 10:15 AM PST
As expected, NYTCO and Monster are launching their new co-branded NYC-area career site. (They call it the culmination of the strategic alliance the two companies struck back in February.) Aside…
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 15 Jun 2007 11:38 AM PST
The May newspaper revenue figures are starting to trickle in and the trend of mixed- to decreased print revenues, off-set by rising online ad sales seem to be continuing. As…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 10 Jun 2007 02:45 PM PST
In a rather extraordinary editorial in Sunday New York Times today, the paper hopes that “the Bancrofts will find a way to continue producing their fine newspaper, or, failing that,…
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 01 Jun 2007 05:31 PM PST
While online advertising in general may be showing signs of slowing, the case appears to be the opposite when focusing specifically on local interactive ad spending, according to projections being…
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 29 May 2007 07:27 PM PST
For the 12th straight quarter, newspaper websites saw their ad revenues rise; this time around, the increase was 22.3 percent to $750 million in Q1 compared to the same period…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 28 May 2007 08:05 PM PST
A little more fuel for the anti-premium fire ... APN’s New Zealand Herald is dropping the premium subscription service started by nzherald.co.nz in late 2005. The site relaunched last December…
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 17 May 2007 06:41 AM PST
The New York Times Company’s April revenue figures show online ad growth starting to slow, as the company had projected in its recent earnings call. As overall April ad revenues…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 16 May 2007 05:38 PM PST
Correction: Catherine Levene did not join DailyCandy directly from NYTimes.com; she left the company in 2005 and has been working with Glam.com and others. An interesting micro-migration from NYT: DailyCandy,…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 16 May 2007 04:12 PM PST
The New York Times is currently having discussions with four unnamed online video distributors about syndicating the work of its reporters, Martin Nisenholtz, the newspaper’s SVP for Digital Operations, told…
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