New York Times

New York Times, Washington Post, AP Found Newsright

Stevie Converse — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:43:10 -0500

Full article: The Wrap
Lucas Shaw
Newspaper organizations are banding together under an organization titled NewsRight to license and profit from the spread of their content online. NewsRight puts code into every piece published by the sites it works with -- 841 newspaper sites at this point -- and that code travels with the story across the web. If someone else steals it, NewsRight's database registers it.

The Times Selling Regional Media Group for $143 Million

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:52:57 -0500

Full article: New York Observer
Megan McCarthy
The New York Times has announced that it will sell its Regional Media Group to Florida-based Halifax Media Holdings for $143 million in cash. The Regional Media Group consists of 16 regional newspapers including titles like the News Chief of Winter Haven, Florida and Thibodaux, Louisiana's Daily Comet and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

New York Times Unloads Small Dailies for $143 Million

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:48:21 -0500

Full article: New York Post
Keith J. Kelly
The New York Times, as expected, has agreed to sell its regional newspaper group, which includes mostly small daily papers in Florida, the Carolinas and Louisiana, to Halifax Media Holdings for $143 million in cash. Newspaper Guild President Bill O'Meara said he hopes "they would use some of the proceeds to settle our contract."

If WikiLeaks Is Dying, then the NYT Is Partly to Blame

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:35:32 -0500

Full article: GigaOM
Mathew Ingram
The reality is that both Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have been the targets of a sustained attack by the U.S. government and companies like PayPal and Visa. And if the New York Times is less than choked up about WikiLeaks' demise, it's because the organization is a competitor that was beating the Times at its own game.

Paywall Won't Offset NYT Print Declines

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:35:55 -0400

Full article: MediaPost
Erik Sass
The New York Times has raised substantial circulation revenues from its online paywall, but these are unlikely to make up for continuing losses on the print advertising side.

NYT Paywall: 12 Percent of Subs Are International

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:53:31 -0400

Full article: paidContent
David Kaplan
Part of the bet that the New York Times Co. made when it began building the metered paywall for NYTimes.com was that the audience consisted of more than just Northeast readers. The company is seeing subscribers from across the nation, and is even getting some international acceptance as well. That could augur well for plans to roll out a similar paywall for the New York Times Co.'s International Herald Tribune site this fall.

New York Times Joins Forces with YouTube and Storyful for 9/11 Tribute

Stevie Converse — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:11:21 -0400

Full article: Nieman Journalism Lab
Megan Garber
The New York Times is joining with YouTube and the video-curation service Storyful to gather and share users’ reflections on 9/11 and the meaning of the ten years that have passed since the attacks. It's the first time the paper has collaborated with YouTube in this way.

New York Times Introduces a Public Site for Its Experimental Projects

Stevie Converse — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:44:16 -0400

Full article: Ad Age
Nat Ives
The New York Times has introduced its long-delayed Beta620, a public beta testing site where Web surfers can experiment with new products that could eventually take root on NYTimes.com.

WaPo Killed Vargas Story Because They Thought He Was Holding Back

Stevie Converse — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:49:50 -0400

Full article: DCist
The Washington Post didn't run with former reporter Jose Antonio Vargas' personal account of his life as an undocumented immigrant because they were scared off by an inconsistency they found during weeks of editing the story.

Jill Abramson -- A Breakthrough at the New York Times, Decades in the Making

Stevie Converse — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:09:17 -0400

Full article: Women's Media Center
Patricia Sullivan
The news last week of Jill Abramson’s promotion to executive editor of the New York Times cheered feminists and female journalists alike, perhaps no one more than the women who sued the newspaper in 1974 over sex discrimination in hiring, pay and promotion.