Journalism.co.uk: FT.com ‘explodes’ with 250 per cent rise in unique users
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 14:08
"According to FT.com internal figures, page views on the site yesterday were up 300 per cent and unique users up 250 per cent compared to figures for the same date last year. … FT.com's figures follow a report in the BBC's in-house magazine Ariel, which claimed the BBC's business pages recorded their best ever traffic after reporting the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers."
paidContent:UK: @ GIIS: FT.com Boss: Media Should Ape Airlines, Lay Off Our Business Model
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 16:30
Rob Grimshaw: “There seems to be a prevailing view out there that there must be purity in business models on the web - that it must be all pay-for or all free - and any effort to marry the two is an offence to the purity of the web environment.”
Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 13:48
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Review of the Amazon Kindle: "Print devotees will likely find Amazon’s newfangled e-reader an imperfect substitute for the old-fashioned newspaper—even if it saves trees."
Monday, 9 June 2008, 12:26
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"Lufthansa said it did an analysis of passenger movements in 1999 and 2000 to try to identify who on its 20-member supervisory board was regularly leaking information to [the FT Deutschland]."
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 09:50
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Aargh. Someone beat me to the "bollocks par" gag…
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 09:48
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Divided by a common jargon? Peter Wilby on the FT’s term for what American journalists often call the "nut graf": "the bollocks par". "This is apparently the paragraph, high up in a news story, which is supposed to explain its significance."
Saturday, 26 April 2008, 08:53
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William Powers: "What’s interesting about the Financial Times is that, while it is pitched at rich people … and emphatically global in outlook … it doesn’t feel exclusive or superficially cosmopolitan. It feels grounded"
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 14:00
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Google News’ Josh Cohen explains how Google works effectively with publishers who have pay walls,like the The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.
Monday, 31 December 2007, 09:00
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FT.com’s Cynthia O’Murchu explains how they produce multimedia feature packages: "Readers online don’t want to be forced to follow stories in a linear way".
Friday, 21 December 2007, 22:28
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Move over Britney Spears, you don’t top the most-read lists everywhere. The top story for 2007 on FT.com was an interview in which the US comptroller general drew parallels between the contemporary United States and the Roman empire.
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 13:36
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"Al Trivino, art director for new projects at News International, gave a presentation about what he thought would be the future formats for newspapers, which would be a hybrid between a fixed newspaper format and structure, and the functionality of browse
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 18:56
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FT’s Paul Murphy points out an irony about the Guardian’s big story today: "If you ask an expert in trust law how the modern, widely-used system of off-shore trusts developed they will tell you that it is was all derived from the model set up by the Scott
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 17:41
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"Pearson … the publisher of the Financial Times, said a Rupert Murdoch-controlled Dow Jones & Co Inc could be a threat in Europe but might provide a boost to the FT in the United States."
Friday, 2 November 2007, 09:21
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In the absense of better metrics, Martin Belam has created an Google Reader readership league table for national newspapers’ RSS feeds. The Guardian’s latest news comes top, with 49,448 subscribers to its ‘UK latest’ feed
