paidContent: What Publishers Can Learn From Online Retailers

Posted on 8 September, 2011 by Martin Stabe

FT panel looks at what online retailers and online publishers can learn from each other. Social media still trumped by other referral sources; email personalisation is vital; testing small UI changes can have huge benefits for conversions ...

allmediascotland: Subscriber Success for New News Website

Posted on 15 November, 2010 by Martin Stabe

"A local news website has picked up 3000 subscribers in just a matter of months - and is making revenue despite having no online display advertising. ... [Eastwoodmercury.co.uk] caters for the middle-class Glasgow suburbs of Newton Mearns, Clarkston and Giffnock and is the brainchild of Tom McConigley, editorial manager of Clyde and Forth Media."

Talking Biz News: NYT expands Dealbook coverage

Posted on 8 November, 2010 by Martin Stabe

"The New York Times is expanding its DealBook blog ... DealBook, which remains anchored by [Andrew Ross Sorkin], Michael de la Merced and Jack Lynch, now has a news staff of 16. ... In print, a DealBook page will now appear Tuesday through Friday in The Times, and the International Herald Tribune will also feature DealBook content on those days. ... The DealBook site will be redesigned with a new look and feel and offer continuous news updates, detailed company data and multimedia offerings. ... DealBook will introduce a redesigned e-mail newsletter on weekday mornings and will add a new edition delivered after each day’s market close."

Reuters: Paywalls encroach on Alphaville

Posted on 14 July, 2010 by Martin Stabe

Felix Salmon: "The fabulous Paul Murphy and Stacy-Marie Ishmael, who have been with Alphaville from the beginning, are now setting up something at even more of an arm’s length from the FT itself: “a new digital media service”, whatever that might be, called FT Tilt. It’s all quite mysterious for the time being; I can’t wait to see how it turns out. Meanwhile, the Alphaville email newsletter is disappearing behind the FT’s ever-expanding paywall: in order to receive it, you either need to be a subscriber to FT.com"

Press Gazette: The Times website: Thanks for the free log-in, here’s five ways to make it better

Posted on 6 July, 2010 by Martin Stabe

Dominic Ponsford suggests five improvements to the new Times website. Spot on, every one of them: Add RSS; allow search by journalist'; add email breaking news alerts; add in-line links; and be more interactive.

SteveOuting: Hey, news sites: Think like retailers!

Posted on 5 January, 2010 by Martin Stabe

Steve Outing is right: news sites have a lot to learn about email marketing from retailers...

Marketing Week: FT.com adds premium subscription service

Posted on 17 December, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"The FT Newsmine is a weekly email service distributed on Fridays that extracts hidden nuggets from FT articles and provides a snapshot of global market-related data, trends and observations that may have been missed during the week."

OJR: Michael Jackson’s death and its lessons for online journalists covering breaking news

Posted on 26 June, 2009 by Martin Stabe

Don't agree with Robert Niles on this at all: "It's time to drop e-mail as a breaking news medium .. sending a 'breaking news alert' hours after everyone from Helsinki to Honolulu has been tweeting the news just embarrasses the news organization. ... Better not to send the e-mail at all." Really? "Everyone" was Tweeting? Actually, a tiny minority was Tweeting.

Guardian: Sign up for Metropolitan Lines

Posted on 23 May, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Sign up for our new London email, Metropolitan Lines, written by the Guardian's London blogger, Dave Hill."

Telegraph: BBC customers deluged by spam after hackers break into mailing list

Posted on 23 September, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Names and e-mail addresses on a BBC mailing list were exploited by hackers to send "spam", or unwanted e-mail..."

outside.in: Radar Email Alerts. New!

Posted on 10 September, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"[Y]ou can now opt to receive email alerts for your [Outside.in] Radar. You’ll get an email anytime someone publishes news happening within 1,000 feet of your selected location, or about any topic or favorite place you’ve added to your Radar."

NPR: Bryant Park Project; What’s The Future Of News?

Posted on 26 July, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Ledbetter says that while the growth of blogs has had an important impact on journalism, he still wouldn't rank it as the most important development of the last five years. He calls e-mail 'the most important killer app that the Internet has brought us.'

Mediaweek: Sporting News Rolls Out Digital Sports Daily

Posted on 21 July, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Sporting News will launch on July 23 Sporting News Today, a daily editorial product styled after a traditional newspaper but which will be e-mailed each morning to a list of subscribers..."

Editor on the Verge: Newsletters – your secret to developing sources

Posted on 15 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Yoni Greenbaum: "An approach that I’ve encouraged my reporters to use is to publish their own email newsletter, call it '[insert reporters name]’s Weekly Update.'"

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