Here’s one way to add value for readers above and beyond the daily news – and add a revenue stream at the same time. The New York Times runs online courses for its readers, which include sessions with the paper’s columnists. Nieman Lab reports: They’re offering week-long, largely online courses for Times readers who pay [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Can anyone tap the $100bn potential of hyperlocal news? From a piece by Michael Gluckstadt on FastCompany comes this interesting idea that the New York Times might licence its hyperlocal platform, Local, to bloggers and freelances in other towns. The third aspect of the Local’s strategy reveals where the Times sees the most opportunity. If [...]
Monday, July 20, 2009
The New York Times has a nice video tribute to Walter Cronkite with images and footage from the assassination of President John F Kennedy, Vietnam and the moon landing, and a fine opening sentence: “Walter Cronkite’s legacy was serving as the most trusted man in America during the biggest events of the 20th century.” Quite a [...]
Sunday, June 7, 2009
The New York Times is asking readers to cover local body meetings as part of its The Local - Fort Greene/Clinton Hill blog initiative.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
A couple of new tricks from the New York Times.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
From a Nieman conference on Public Interest Journalism: Winner or Loser in the On-Line Era comes a transcript of a conversation with New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Via Publicitas: Newspaper Web Sites Average More Than 67 Million Visitors Each Month in 2008; Web Audience Grows 8.6 Percent in Last Year’s Fourth Quarter Average monthly unique audience figures for newspaper Web sites grew by nearly 7.3 million in 2008 to 67.3 million visitors, an increase of 12.1 percent over 2007, according to a [...]
Saturday, February 7, 2009
More on business models. This time Henry Blodget of Silicon Alley Insider offers a business model to the New York Times which comprises cutting costs by 40%, raising the price of the print subscription and introducing an online subscription. It’s an interesting read. 3. Explore Charging An Online Subscription Fee Before you scream that we [...]
Friday, January 16, 2009
Michael Hirschorn ponders on the future of journalism and the New York Times' chance of survival in www.theatlantic.com: The Web site, nytimes.com, boasted an impressive 20 million unique users for the month of October, making it the fifth-ranked news site on the Internet in terms of total visitors. (The October numbers were boosted by interest in the election, but still …) The print product, meanwhile, is sold to a mere million readers a day and dropping, and the Sunday print edition to 1.4 million (and also dropping). Print and Web metrics are not apples-to-apples, but it’s intuitively the case that the Web has extended The Times’ reach many times over.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Recognising the dominance of Del.icio.us, Furl, Digg and other social bookmarking services, nytimes.com is winding down its own file-saving service. Makes sense.
Evolving Links
Saturday, September 26, 2009
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