Independent: Stephen Glover: What Mail Online could teach its rivals
Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 21:58
"Mail Online is not yet making a profit but it could be making serious money within a few years – a notion which would have seemed far-fetched only 18 months ago. The huge size of its ever-increasing audience is becoming attractive to advertiser…
MediaWeek: Three customers get to bypass News International paywall
Monday, 15 November 2010, 18:14
Very interesting. What other service providers might bundle Times content to add value to network access? "Three, the telecoms company, is offering its mobile broadband customers three months free access to News International's sites for The Times and The Sunday Times from today."
Guardian.co.uk: Paul Cheesbrough leaves Telegraph Media Group
Tuesday, 8 June 2010, 16:25
"Paul Cheesbrough, chief information officer at TMG and the executive given the task of managing the company's Euston Project after Lewis's departure, is taking the same role at News International."
New Media Age: Paywall publishers abandon old audience measures
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 09:19
"News International has suspended its membership to web traffic measuring firm ABC Electronic following its announcement it will introduce paywalls in June."
BBC News: Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June
Friday, 26 March 2010, 08:18
"The Times and Sunday Times newspapers will start charging to access their websites in June … Users will pay £1 for a day's access and £2 for a week's subscription. … Both titles will launch new websites in early May, separating their digital presence for the first time and replacing the existing, combined site, Times Online. "
Press Gazette: Times banned NewsNow over paid-for links service
Monday, 11 January 2010, 17:48
"[A] News International spokesman has … told Press Gazette: 'NewsNow has been using Times Online content as part of its paid-for, commercial as well as free services. They have continued to do so despite our direct requests for them to stop. As a result, we have taken the decision to disallow their indexing of our content.'"
NewsNow vs the Times: Right to crawl vs right to link » malcolm coles
Monday, 11 January 2010, 17:45
Malcolm Coles: "most of the media reporting the [Newsnow/Times] story – are confusing linking and crawling / indexing. … What the Times has done, however, is block NewsNow from crawling its site using its robots.txt file. This is nothing to do with linking to its site."
Malcolm Coles: NewsNow vs the Times: Right to crawl vs right to link
Monday, 11 January 2010, 17:45
Malcolm Coles: "most of the media reporting the [Newsnow/Times] story – are confusing linking and crawling / indexing. … What the Times has done, however, is block NewsNow from crawling its site using its robots.txt file. This is nothing to do with linking to its site."
Boing Boing: Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp’s websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
Sunday, 15 November 2009, 12:48
Cory Doctorow on November 8: "So here's what I think it going on. Murdoch has no intention of shutting down search-engine traffic to his sites, but he's … hoping is that a second-tier search engine like Bing or Ask (or, better yet, some search tool you've never heard of that just got $50MM in venture capital) will give him half a year's operating budget in exchange for a competitive advantage over Google."
Shakeup Media: Murdoch the chess-player
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 13:14
Richard Addis: "The Lebedev affair has had loads of coverage over the weekend. But I do not think anyone has looked at it hard enough from the Murdochian point of view."
