AP Enterprise: UK tabloid paid spies for scoops
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 17:04
“Interviews with three more former journalists and published accounts suggest that [the News of the World] engaged in a pattern of payoffs aimed at rival newspaper employees. … Although accusations that the paper hacked into phones and corrupted poli…
New York Times: Comedy Podcast Inside News Corp. Feasts on a Scandal
Monday, 22 August 2011, 16:21
"As some Murdoch-owned media properties chose to minimize the unfolding scandal, [The Bugle producer Chris] Skinner and the pair of comedians behind the podcast, Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver, went straight for the jugular. The Bugle, among the mo…
Media Week: How long can News International hide its ABCe figures?
Thursday, 27 January 2011, 17:59
"Under the current industry agreements, the James Murdoch-led operation has just two more months of grace before either pulling out of ABC membership altogether, or successfully instigating a change to the way the association operates."
Press Gazette: Guardian memo: 54,000 a month behind Times paywall
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 11:49
"New research from Experian Hitwise has been used by The Guardian to suggests that 54,000 people a month are accessing content behind the paywall of The Times and Sunday Times. The research was commissioned by Guardian News and Media and published internally on the company’s intranet yesterday."
Brand Republic: The Times and Sunday Times attract 75% of online audience from UK
Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 17:50
"The proportion of people in the UK accessing the Times online is said to have more than doubled since News International erected its paywall in June. …. In addition, the frequency with which users are accessing News International’s online content has risen six-fold, from an average of once every two weeks, to three times a week on the new sites."
Paidcontent:UK: Times’ Audience Numbers Struggle, Subscriptions Offer Hope
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 11:31
Robert Andrews: "The big question, to us on the outside, is whether the reduction in advertising-exposed eyeballs associated with a traffic drop of this scale is, or will, being made up by paying customers. But we didn’t even know how much News International was making from digital before the switch; the publisher doesn’t break it out."
FT.com: Times reveals digital subscriber numbers
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 11:27
"[A]nalysts said a lack of detail in the numbers published on Tuesday – for instance, there is no breakdown of how many readers bought the iPad app rather than a website subscription – would limit the conclusions that could be made about the paywall strategy in general. "
Press Gazette: Times claims over 50,000 monthly digital subscribers
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 11:25
"News International… secured just over 50,000 monthly subscribers paying to access its digital versions of The Times and Sunday Times since the paywall dropped in early June. … [It] confirmed that to date it had achieved more than 105,000 paid-for sales to allow customers to access Times digital content – with around half of these being monthly subscribers."
Greenslade: Times claims 105,000 online ‘sales’
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 11:19
"News International … has secured 105,000 sales from people who have paid to access either the papers' websites and/or its iPad and Kindle apps. In addition to digital-only subscribers, a further 100,000 print subscribers have activated their digital accounts."
Press Gazette Editor’s Blog: The News of the World’s paywall and why, for Rupert Murdoch, the internet is so over
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 12:45
"[For] Rupert Murdoch the internet is so over. Without any inbound or outbound links, and invisible to Google and other search engines, the NotW, Times and Sunday Times don’t really have internet sites – but digitally delivered editions."
Marketing: Asda delists The Sunday Times in price row
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 10:19
"The [Sunday Times] was delisted by Asda’s 260 stores after News International (NI) raised the cover price by 20p to £2.20 last weekend. According to a source, the supermarket chain is incensed that the publisher is keeping 18.3p of the price increase for itself while offering retailers just 1.7p."
Retail Week: Print advertising remains central to retailers
Friday, 10 September 2010, 09:23
"Neil Jones, director of commercial strategy at News International, says that retailers account for about 30% of advertising spend for national newspapers – making them the most important sector of advertising for print media. At News International … that figure is 34% and for The Sun it is 40%."
New Media Age: News of the World paywall planned for October launch
Wednesday, 18 August 2010, 12:00
"News International is to put News of the World content behind a paywall by October, with The Sun to follow. News of the World’s transition to a paid content model will hinge on exclusive video content, distributed across an overhauled site and app."
paidContent:UK: Times Puts Some Ads Outside The Wall And On iPad As Web Display Reduces
Monday, 9 August 2010, 17:48
"The number of [online display] ads has reduced dramatically from when Times Online was freely available. … In their place, one thing that is clicking increasingly is a new spin on an old kind of sponsorship – paid editorial… The Times and Sunday Times sites are running a series of sponsored features and site-lets for Accenture, Courvoisier, Alfa Romeo, Chevrolet and ICIS, each apparently the online extension of a recent paid supplement."
