MediaGuardian: Zach Leonard quits News International

Posted on 14 July, 2010 by Martin Stabe

"Zach Leonard, a former senior executive at ft.com and digital media publisher of Times Newspapers, has left News International after just over four years. ... A spokeswoman for News International said that Leonard had left the company as part of a restructure of the commercial team."

Press release: News International blocks Newsnow from linking to all Times content

Posted on 8 January, 2010 by Martin Stabe

"NewsNow.co.uk ... has been told by News International (NI) that it may no longer link to any content on Times Online. ... The blocking has been technically implemented via the robots.txt protocol, a convention for requesting search engines, web spiders and other web robots refrain from asking for pages from all or part of a website."

Media Guardian: Times editor James Harding outlines plans for online charging

Posted on 17 November, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Pledging to 'rewrite the economics of newspapers', [Times editor James Harding] said the Times would charge for 24-hour access to that day's edition of the paper alongside a subscription model, but dismissed the idea of micro-payments for individual articles."

Techcrunch: Badda Bing! Microsoft woos newspapers by funding their stick to beat Google

Posted on 15 November, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Microsoft plans to launch an assault on Google’s flank, by cosying up to major content providers, especially newspapers, that feel hard done by Google News. It plans to use Bing as a way to entice them out of the Google eco-system, into one where, increasingly, the content of major newspapers could well be found more often on Bing than on Google. ... Our sources say Microsoft has pledged to help fund research and engineering into ACAP to the tune of about will put £100,000. This is the more granular version of the robots.txt protocol which has been proposed by publishers to enable them to have a more sophisticated response to search engine crawlers. "

Guardian: Charlie Brooker on James Murdoch and his media empire

Posted on 5 September, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Damien Thorn, offspring of Satan, was educated at Yale before inheriting a global business conglomerate at a shockingly young age and using it to hypnotise millions in a demonic bid to hasten Armageddon. James Murdoch's story is quite different. He went to Harvard."

paidContent:UK: News Int. Shutting Thelondonpaper, Website Too

Posted on 20 August, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Thelondonpaper.com is also shutting and paidContent:UK understands there are no plans to continue publishing the brand online. The title lost £12.9 million in the year to June 29—despite revenue of £14.1 million—and as part of its on-going strategic review NI has decided that enough is enough."

Media Week: News International committed to charging for online newspaper content

Posted on 19 July, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"[The views of Paul Hayes, managing director of NI commercial] partly contrasted with those of another panel member, Tim Brooks, managing director of Guardian News & Media, who stressed that the publisher of The Guardian and Observer newspapers, would 'never charge for its news' content, arguing that consumers would simply shift to other media, such as the BBC."

Media Week: Publishers may pool online inventory for agency sales

Posted on 30 June, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Leading publishers such as Telegraph Media Group, Bauer Media and News International are in talks over pooling their online inventory to sell directly to agencies."

NMA: Publishers forced to revisit pay barriers

Posted on 25 March, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Bauer ... told new media age it was investigating a charging structure. A spokeswoman for Bauer said, "It's a business model we keep a close eye on and continue to investigate its potential, but for the time being our consumer-facing digital brands remain free.'"

Press Gazette: Readers ‘will turn to blogs if financial reporting is curbed’

Posted on 16 January, 2009 by Martin Stabe

Incisive Media submission to the Treasury Committee's investigation on the role of the media in the banking crisis: "Who would [the government] rather became the trusted source of information on a crisis - Robert Peston or whizzyboy36 writing on a blog hosted on a web server in Uzbekistan?"

Print Week: Iconic and notorious news site bows out gracefully

Posted on 25 April, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"The final printing at Wapping, a run of around 60,000 copies of The Sunday Times, was marked with a low-key, and for some emotional, celebration by a handful of staff."

Newspaper Innovation: UK domain & trademark war

Posted on 11 April, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"News International, owner of free daily thelondonpaper, and Associated Newspapers (London Lite) are participating in a ‘phoney’ expansion was in the UK. Both companies are trademarking their brands and registering Internet domain names in several are

Independent on Sunday: Murdoch jnr’s News Corp graduation signals new era for ‘Times’ and ‘Sun’

Posted on 9 December, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers, including the News of the World, The Times and The Sun, are expected to accelerate their push into online journalism under the media mogul's 34-year-old son, James."

This is Money: Murdoch’s Sky promotion breaks City rules

Posted on 7 December, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Associated Newspapers puts its spin on the news: "[T]he City's Combined Code on Corporate Governance, published by the Financial Reporting Council four years ago, recommends that the chief executive of a company should not go on to become the chairman."

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