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AP Enterprise: UK tabloid paid spies for scoops

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"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 police officers to win scoops have been widely aired, the paper's efforts to subvert rival newspaper employees have seen less attention."

New York Times: Comedy Podcast Inside News Corp. Feasts on a Scandal

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"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 most popular comedy podcasts in Britain with roughly 400,000 weekly downloads, spent three weeks hammering their corporate owners, News International, and Mr. Murdoch himself."

Press Gazette: Guardian memo: 54,000 a month behind Times paywall

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"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

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"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

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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."

Press Gazette: Times claims over 50,000 monthly digital subscribers

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"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."

paidContent:UK: Times Puts Some Ads Outside The Wall And On iPad As Web Display Reduces

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"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."