Times Online: Libel tourists flock to ‘easy’ UK courts
Sunday, 1 November 2009, 12:16
"John Mardas, a Greek citizen and former associate of the Beatles, is fighting a case in the British courts against The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune over articles that he claims falsely represented him as a charlatan. Just 31 people read the relevant articles on the internet in England. The New York Times only sold 177 copies of its newspaper with the disputed article in England, while it was not published in the International Herald Tribune in this country, according to the defendants."
Sunday, 6 January 2008, 10:41
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"As newspaper readership stagnates in the US and Europe, India’s newspapers are enjoying the kind of golden age the US saw at the end of the 19th century. These prospects are luring in international groups."
Monday, 10 December 2007, 23:06
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"Reuters is in discussion with The New York Times about supplying business news to the American newspaper, after reaching a similar agreement with its sister title the International Herald Tribune."
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 21:09
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"According to traffic measurement firm Compete, the opinion section of the Times websites has seen traffic more than double since the move, and overall traffic to the newspaper’s site is up by 10 per cent."
Saturday, 6 October 2007, 15:07
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"Looking at [NYTimes.com] traffic (as per comScore) tells us that the Times probably realized the $10 million $20 million TimesSelect was generating was not enough to makeup for the missing page views and ad dollars a completely free site could generate."
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 15:39
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Vin Crosbie: TimesSelect "yielded some $10mi from 227,000 paying customers. That’s less than 2% of the site’s more than 13m registered users. Its revenues are less than 5% of the site’s revenues from advertising on freely accessible webpages.
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 09:31
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"[At the next downturn] all the execs who have been staking their careers on the promise of online advertising will stare at their dwindling quarterly returns and wonder why they hadn’t banked some subscription revenue as a hedge against a downturn."
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 18:11
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Scott Karp: "Newspapers — and all original content producers — need to think about the ‘lifetime value’ of their content when monetized through fees vs. when monetized through advertising."
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 14:36
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Mark Potts: "the delight about the end of TimesSelect is misplaced. While the "content needs to be free" crowd hails it as a victory, the fact is that TimesSelect was the right idea, badly executed."
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 12:20
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Jeff Jarvis: "TimesSelect represented the last gasp of the circulation mentality of news media, the belief that surely consumers would continue to pay for content even as the internet commodified news"
The New York Times paywall comes down
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 10:17
The New York Times is ending the paid-for section of its web site on Wednesday.
The move to end the Times Select service had been anticipated for weeks after it was first reported in early August by the rival New York Post.
TimesSelect, launched in 2005, gave paying subscribers access to 23 high-profile columnists, as well as [...]
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 07:41
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The New York Times paywall is coming down on Wednesday. Paying TimesSelect subscribers will receive a prorated refund.
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 07:37
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"It had been rumored for weeks, but became official tonight with the posting on an article on The New York Times online site: The paper is ending its practice of walling off part of its offerings in a pay channel, TimesSelect."
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 08:42
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"Citing anonymous sources, the New York Post has reported that rival Manhattan paper The New York Times is planning to do away with TimesSelect, the subscription-only content on its NYTimes.com Web site."
