It looks like News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). accelerating its plans for how best to make use of its last month’s acquisition of the Skiff e-reading platform and the stake it took in the Steve Brill/Gordon Crovitz paid content start-up Journalism Online. The company is considering whether to create a dedicated...
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As expected, Forbes is shuttering the True/Slant site this weekend, according to the posts of several contributors. As Fishbowl NY noted, all of the reader farewells penned by T/S contributors say that they hope to working on a new “undisclosed” project. The not-too-well-veiled hint is that it will be on Forbes’ site....
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» The new Kindle is lighter, cheaper, faster than ever—but will it kill the iPad?» Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) execs are increasingly d...
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Even while fan-based SB Nation is in the middle of launching 20 regional sports sites, the company has now acquired The Sporting Blog from Sporting News. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Although most people have long since planned their summer vacations, Huffington Post hopes that there’s still enough time to attract readers and advertisers to the travel vertical it’s launching in beta later this afternoon. The introduction of a travel section follows the food and arts channels HuffPo unveiled this spring. The online news site,...
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The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) has made a small acquisition, buying up personalized news site iCurrent, we have confirmed. iCurrent provides its users with a single page of aggregated news based primarily on topics they specify they are interested in; users can update the page to add or remove...
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Some eight months after announcing a partnership for a co-branded online business page, the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) and Bloomberg have finally delivered. The result is a pretty standard, informative business page that seems to make good use of both partners. Some readers will probably skip right by the...
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Pennsylvania’s LancasterOnline went live this morning with the first newspaper use of Journalism Online’s Press+—metered out-of-town access to obits. The meter kicks in after an out-of-market user reads seven obits in one month; viewing more will cost $1.99 a month or $19.99 a year. The...
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Nearly 2.3 million people tuned in to TMZ.com’s live stream of Lindsay Lohan’s day in court on Tuesday, July 6, in which Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha ...
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Publishers across the world will be keenly scrutinizing the response to The Times’ freshly erected paywall. Tired of giving its expensively acquired content away for free online, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). has decided that users must now pay for it.
Are paywalls the answer? They may be an answer —...
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