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Having blocked search crawlers since 2010, News International’s The Times will now let engines index a couple of sentences from articles. But don’t bet on the ‘wall’ coming down entirely – this is a try-before-you-buy offer.
It could be all-change in one of UK news publishers’ biggest online sectors, car classified ads.
News Corp.’s News International is ready t…
With Rupert Murdoch in London to launch the Sunday Sun whilst grasping News International’s crisis for a second time, News Corp is doubling…
More than a year and a half after News Corp.’s flagship UK “quality” papers introduced new paid digital outlets, their effect is becoming cl…
While the UK’s media ethics furore ended up closing the News Of The World last year, how did News Corp.’s next-best-selling UK newspaper far…
News Of The World’s closure deprived News International of data on which it could have based a decision to introduce digital fees at the UK’…
The UK’s highest-circulating newspaper may not yet be going ahead with web fees but it has introduced a subscription smartphone app, priced…
Is The Sun about to put up an online paywall? Gordon MacMillan, social media editor at Haymarket, points to a clue that suggests – at least…
The latest newspaper readership figures suggest that a huge number of people have stopped reading a Sunday newspaper altogether since the cl…
The stakes are getting higher for News Corp.’s international CEO, as the phone “hacking” scandal resurfaces this week…
The News of the World hired a specialist private investigator to run covert surveillance on two of the lawyers representing phone-hacking vi…
After weeks in which some News Corp investors had started to call for James Murdoch’s head, former Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) CEO and News Intern…
News Corp.’s The Times and NYTCo’s The New York Times each introduced online charges in summer 2010 and March 2011 respectively. So how are…
News Corp.’s Times Newspapers is continuing to see digital subscription gains – but growth is slowing, and their boost to print sales has pr…
The Sun is understood to be ready to relaunch its Sun Online website in the next few days.
It is closing its five-year-old reader community…
News International is swapping its news sites’ property search contract, after letting its current provider get snapped up by a rival publis…
Milly Dowler’s family has been offered a multimillion-pound settlement by Rupert Murdoch’s News International, in an attempt to settle the p…
A new online and mobile service dedicated to sport and showbiz is to be launched in the wake of the closure of the News of the World by Rupe…
James Murdoch is now in public disagreement with two of his former top dogs, who each told parliament that he was aware that phone hacking w…
News International, publisher of the Sun and the Times, is to sell Wapping, the headquarters of its UK operations for 25 years.
The move wa…
Sunday tabloid publishers that have added almost 2m extra copy sales following the News of the World’s demise may have to wait until October…
The latest developments in News International’s voicemail tapping saga and the fall-out for News Corp…
The editor of the Times, James Harding, has admitted that News International’s handling of the phone-hacking crisis was “catastrophic” and t…
A sting in the tail of the latest New York Times (NYSE: NYT) article on Rupert Murdoch. It concludes:
“In the last few years, some employee…
“Blindingly obvious” evidence of corrupt payments to police officers was found by the former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdonald…
With all the attention on News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) and the hacking scandal, it was bound to happen: the homepage of The Sun newspaper, The Time…
The BBC is usually regarded as an even-handed observer of the world’s events. But one of its more opinion-led programs, Newsnight, last nigh…
Since news broke of the scandal surrounding phone hacking at News of the World, the question has been, how it extend to other newspapers in…
The Times reaches 100,000 digital subscribers and I’m still baffled by their online strategy. I ought to be better-placed than many to figur…
One year after it introduced digital charges, News Corp.’s Times Newspapers in the UK says it has 101,036 digital subscribers across the web…
PayPal has felt need to press-release the fact that News International’s The Times and Sunday Times websites will allow users to pay for acc…
Some of the thinking behind News Corp.’s attempt at aggregating its rivals’ news publications on tablets devices will live on despite being…
Back in 2009, Rupert Murdoch declared: “We intend to charge for all our news websites.” Two years on, and it’s becoming clear that some will…
News International’s chief executive Rebekah Brooks has launched a three-year internal review of the company under the slogan “changing the…
Another stat has come across our bows, aside from Tuesday’s second release of digital numbers from Times Newspapers (analysis)…
The propo…
Let’s dive in to News International’s second release of numbers pertaining to Times Newspapers’ digital fees…
Frequently besmirched since it started charging online eight month ago, News International has, as it promised it would, issued a second set…
The Times is planning some changes to its paid digital model that could lead to more nuanced additions to its current hard in-or-out system.
News International is claiming that advertisers have benefited from “significant lifts in user engagement and brand recall” due to charging…
News International swung from a £31.7 million annual profit to a £73.3 million annual loss in the year to June 2010, according to statemen…
News International strategy and development director Dominic Young speaking to Westminster Media Forum this month…
Andrew Walkingshaw is CEO of London-based startup Timetric, which specializes in economic data services, but he is writing a series about th…
With News Corp.’s belief in the tablet opportunity ongoing, its UK newspapers tried snagging what it expected would be an army of new iPad o…
Rupert Murdoch is clearly looking to tablets as a post-print, post-web model for salvation. But, if the new News Of The World iPad edition i…
The Sunday Times’ iPad edition is due to debut this coming Sunday – price: free to print-and-digital annual Times subscribers, free to £2-a…
More than a tenth of The Times’ core readers who have internet access have now paid to subscribe to the paper’s website or its web-and-prin…
George Orwell once made a very important comparison between the rival merits of books and cigarettes, in an effort to prove that the cost of…
Web fees for News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) online newspapers is a direction rather than a template. Down under, The Australian seems unwilling to fo…
The rise of many-to-many, a 15-point love-letter to Twitter and the possible destruction of the role and funding of the press. That was Guar…
In early July, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) placed its two London-based “quality” dailies, the Times and Sunday Times, behi…
The Times and Sunday Times had always intended to launch more niche pay-for digital products than just their eponymous websites and iPad app…
Round about the same time as it makes a bid to acquire the whole of BskyB, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) has also erected a paywall around the Times…
Many observers cite five percent as an industry benchmark for proportion of paying customers against free users in a freemium service enviro…
Since News International relaunched The Times websites in June with a new paid model, I have refrained from much of the second-guessing and…
After months of onlookers’ speculation and second-guessing using third-party traffic metrics, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) has finally released the…
Conventional wisdom has it that the internet is killing newspapers. Paid-for circulations are relentlessly down across most of the market wh…
News International’s silence on subscriber numbers for Times and Sunday Times online content continues, three and a half months after the pa…
News International’s silence on subscriber numbers for Times and Sunday Times online content continues, three and a half months after the pa…
The news industry is not yet ready to introduce digital charging on News Corp.’s terms, nor on its turf.
The publisher may be right in the…
The news industry is not yet ready to introduce digital charging on News Corp.’s terms, nor on its turf.
The publisher may be right in the…
With its phone hacking scandal continuing to dominate coverage of News Corp.’s mass-market UK Sunday tabloid, it’s little surprise that the…
David McAdam, the executive who was involved in the delivery of the iPad edition of The Sun newspaper, is leaving News International, he say…
If the sceptics were sceptical that The Times could successfully charge online readers, just wait until its Sunday stablemate goes the same…
I often find it confusing when people charge The Times with having introduced reader fees without having launched a service that really take…
It’s the biggest news day the News Of The World has had in some time – two “exclusive” sports stories, one with allegations about Wayne Roon…
If editions on tablets like iPad are the “game-changer” which may help “transform” newspapers, as Rupert Murdoch put it, then Murdoch and hi…
We always knew the rest of News International’s portfolio would follow The Times and Sunday Times in starting to charge reader fees online.…
By Roy Greenslade: In his latest sally against Rupert Murdoch, his biographer Michael Wolff argues that the News Corporation chief has never…
We knew Rupert Murdoch was enamored with tablets like iPad. Turns out, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). is such a big fan, it’s planning to launch a n…
Though they are often cast as distinct business models, advertising and paid content are not necessarily mutually exclusive – or are they?…
The Times’ infographics are great in print, but imagine what they could be online.
Times Newspapers has commissioned design agency Applied…
In recent weeks, eager, pessimistic analyses have deployed various mathematical alchemies to declare News International’s new online strateg…
What will the free-web pundits and anti-paywall brigadiers do when one of their own online poster girls comes out in favour of paid content?…
Times Newspapers in the UK is giving its early iPad customers a free one-month subscription for the second time in as many months, in an att…
The Times’ paid model is just two weeks old but, still, a number of stats came through this weekend – none of them from the horse’s mouth……
If you thought The Times’ recent marketing messages behind its paid online strategy – essentially: you get what you pay for – had historical…
By Mark Sweney: Zach Leonard, a former senior executive at ft.com and digital media publisher of Times Newspapers, has left News Internation…
Publishers across the world will be keenly scrutinizing the response to The Times
For all the scepticism about The Timeses’ paywalls, one must properly define what “success” would be for the project. Murdoch is not trying…
On the day The Times and Sunday Times start requiring payments for their new websites, The Guardian has devoted its top above-the-fold promo…
We’ve covered every step in Times Newspapers’ conversion to paid websites – the initial plan, the confirmation, the blocking of stories from…
The Times’ and Sunday Times’ share of UK newspaper web visits nearly halved from 4.37 percent to 2.67 percent in the month since it introduc…
When The Times debuted its £9.99-a-month iPad edition in May, it launched without any built-in way for readers to pay again for a second mo…
News Corp.’s UK daily tabloid has followed The Times to Apple’s tablet, with an app edition that, at £4.99 a month, is half as much as its…
A visit to the Cheltenham Science Festival this weekend was instructive in how newspapers aim to leverage reader loyalty, and how The Times…
Rupert’s chief naysayer Michael Wolff, on his Newser site, rolls out a curious kind of self-loathing logic, and seems to insult three “frien…
The Times’ iPad edition, which went on sale along with the tablet’s UK debut Friday morning, sold 5,000 copies in three days, News Corp.’s C…
By Roy Greenslade: Barrister and writer Tim Kevan has withdrawn his popular Baby Barista blog from The Times’s website in reaction to its pa…
News International has launched two sites splitting Times Online in to TheTimes.co.uk and TheSundayTimes.co.uk, each of which will stop sear…
Rupert Murdoch’s Times Newspapers has gone ahead with the launch of separate TheTimes.co.uk and TheSundayTimes.co.uk websites as planned.
T…
I tackled Times executive editor Danny Finkelstein (pictured) and Sunday Times executive editor Tristan Davies on how their new, separate we…
The Times and Sunday Times’ upcoming paid sites will not allow their articles to appear in search engines like Google (NSDQ: GOOG). That was…
His father took a seat – next to News International CEO Rebekah Brooks and her new iPad – to hear News Corp (NYSE: NWS) EMEA CEO James Murdo…
A few weeks before the UK’s Times and Sunday Times become News Corp.’s first big consumer titles to go paid online, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) EM…
The bets so far on how Rupert Murdoch’s Times Online in the UK will fare when it starts charging…
— Times editor James Harding reckons o…
With just weeks to go before The Times and Sunday Times go behind “paywalls”, know this – many aspects are not yet in place and the strategy…
Did The Sunday Times’ editor, in the UK, just admit his website’s about to lose nine tenths of its readers once charges are introduced?
Fr…
London-based The Times’ Times Online is set to divide in two, perhaps next week, before going behind the first of Rupert Murdoch’s big consu…
The Sun’s website has fallen in behind its News International stablemate Times Online by barring the PR media monitoring service Meltwater f…
With just a few weeks before they launch new sites behind paywalls in June, News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) Times and Sunday Times are each cutting…
As News Corp (NYSE: NWS) prepares to tip its online business model from advertising toward reader payments, its financials are trending the…
With nearly a month to go before News International raises its first paywall in June, both Times Online and Sun Online have stopped publishi…
By Steve Busfield: The former executive editor of the paper’s Fabulous magazine will be responsible for taking the website behind a paywall…
One News Corp (NYSE: NWS) outlet debating another, with a bunch of talking heads in between. One of them was me, discussing The Times’ onlin…
The Times’ upcoming web charges are targeted at its most committed followers – the paper acknowledges the introduction will leave it with si…
By Mercedes Bunz: News International is to pull its UK titles’ content – including the Times and the Sunday Times, the Sun and News of the W…
After months of silence, News Corp.’s UK wing News International has put some details on its plans to turn Times Online paid-only, in a big…
Rebekah Brooks’ News International wrote off £17.8 million from its investment in REA UK, the joint holding company of PropertyFinder, befo…
By Stephen Brook: The start of the Times Online paywall is imminent, with a special preview about to launch.
News International chief execu…
Former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks, now News International CEO, is continuing her rise up the publisher’s ranks – she’s replacing James Murdoc…
Public relations news monitor Meltwater, which is still refusing to pay UK newspapers for crawling their websites, has now been blocked from…
You have to sympathise with The Guardian’s correspondent Andrew Clark, who, during News Corp.’s Q2 earnings conference call Tuesday night,…
By Mark Sweney: Nwws International has hired Paul Gilshan, BSkyB’s head of marketing for its movie channels, to head marketing for the Times…
By Stephen Brook: More on New York’s Newsday, its paywall and its (in)famous 35 paying subscribers.
As Peter Preston points out in the Obse…
By Stephen Brook: The Times has hired a senior executive from Star TV in Asia to head up its digital division and promoted its chief leader…
No more The Times with your caviar – free copies of the paper with groceries from Waitrose’s Ocado online delivery service are the latest vi…
Mr Murdoch may have vowed to remove News Corp (NYSE: NWS) stories from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) – but not all his footsoldiers are necessarily on…
Content protectionism is heating up. After Rupert Murdoch last year complained about sites that “steal” News Corp (NYSE: NWS) stories, his U…
An interesting development in the battle over free content… Times Online, Rupert Murdoch’s flagship quality UK paper, has blocked UK web a…
Rupert Murdoch issued the dictate that all his news sites will go paid in 2010. This might be one reason why…
By this November, Times Onl…
The Times must meet the “commercial necessity” to innovate before raising the paywall next year, say Times Media’s digital development head…
Toward the end of a week in which the paywalls debate has been skewed in to a cartoon Murdoch-vs-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) war that doesn’t necess…
News International’s exit from the online property search market continues apace. After selling PropertyFinder, of which it owned half, to Z…
Is News Corp (NYSE: NWS) taking on Apple, as well as Google, as it looks to reassert the value of its newspaper content?
This brilliant p…
Another week, another paid content survey. Actually, media law firm Olswang’s meaty Convergence 2009 report is far broader than that, but we…
Channel 4 News thought enough of the reports that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is trying to tempt newspapers away from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to r…
The reports say Microsoft is offering to pay newspaper publishers for indexing their stories, if Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is blocked from doing t…
By Sarah Hartley: A third of the UK population – around 20 million people – have a direct relationship with News International thanks to the…
By Roy Greenslade: James Murdoch’s speech to investors in Barcelona (via Reuters) yesterday revealed the direction that News Corporation (NY…
News International’s Sun Online is beefing up its social network MySun with the kind of interaction features you would find on a genuine,…
By Steve Busfield: Bloggers, the Twitterati and web users everywhere are united: Rupert Murdoch, and now his sidekick James Harding, are ju…
Earlier reporting of Times editor James Harding’s comments to Tuesday’s Society of Editors conference said that one of the paper’s anticipat…
By Chris Tryhorn: James Harding, the editor of the Times, today gave the clearest indication yet of how News International is going to start…
By John Naughton: Rupert Murdoch’s declaration, in an interview with Sky News, that he was thinking of barring Google’s search engine from i…
Amongst News Corp.’s July-to-September earnings: “The U.K. newspaper group reported lower first quarter operating income contributions compa…
In ad-funded media, bang-for-buck is everything. But online newspapers are doing worse and worse at satisfying advertisers than rival digita…
Time for Geordie Greig and Rupert Murdoch to exchange glances, as they head in pass in opposite directions on the free-paid highway…
Lond…
As it moves to monetise its web content as part of News Corp.’s global paid content mission, News International is creating a new digital-mi…
Online news is too freely available for Rupert Murdoch’s global paywall plan to work, according to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt. Spe…
Thelondonpaper’s launch team, led by former Campaign editor Stefano Hatfield, flew to New York in 2006 to convince Rupert Murdoch and his ex…
Online ad sales staff must think they can’t give away recruitment ads at the moment — so no real surprises that Sun Online is giving away a…
The free ride is over online: Rupert says so. But what is the real motivation behind the old tycoon’s latest paid content battlecry?
There’…
If monetising news websites is a war, it looks like the big publishers are about to send in the ground troops. Rupert Murdoch has again comm…
Property listings site Zoopla.co.uk has bought out PropertyFinder Group from its joint owners News International and the Australian REA Grou…
It’s not the best of times for Sunday newspapers — which makes The Sunday Times’ online ambitions even more intriguing: News International…
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has finally signaled its intention to launch a proper VOD TV service. While Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) VOD views skyrocket…
Many at News International must have hoped this story hadn’t come back to haunt them… According to a report from investigative journalist…
The UK’s biggest national newspaper publisher has a new boss: longstanding editor of The Sun, Rebekah Wade, has been promoted to CEO of News…
By Bobbie Johnson: MySpace is considering closing down a number of offices around the world as it attempts to cut costs and recover from a s…
Propertyfinder’s CEO is leading a management attempt to buy out the site from joint owners News International and REA Group, she has confirm…
For the second time in as many weeks, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is back on his own airwaves. Murdoch told Fox Bu…
News International is giving a “no-comment” to Wednesday morning’s speculation it’s planning to separate The Sunday Times from Times Online…
— MEN Media: When GMG Regional Media said it was having trouble in the classified jobs market, it wasn’t joking. Despite the unit seeing ye…
By Jemima Kiss: Rupert Murdoch last night confirmed that charges for accessing Times Online or Sun Online content could start later this yea…
UPDATE News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) Q3 earnings release revealed Wednesday night that the UK newspapers division suffered a 21 percent drop in a…
Just as newspapers were looking to attract new mobile readers, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has rejected the first version of Newspaper(s), an iPhone…
— The Sun: Having announced the launch of its Sun Talk daily radio broadcasts, News International’s flagship red-top is launching a live, o…
Amid all the rejuvenated interest in the online subscription model, we know two things…
— Times Online currently has no plan to introduc…
The Sun editor Rebekah Wade channeled the shared anxiety of digital news execs, whilst speaking at London College of Communications’ Cudlipp…
Not one to be left out by growing overlap elsewhere around News Corp (NYSE: NWS). Sun Online is now starting to formally link out to other n…
After spending hundreds of hours deliberating and thousands of pounds on consultants
— News International: Five months after taking the new role, News International digital and development director Mike Anderson is taking a…
Change is in the air at Times Online where the site’s editor-in-chief Anne Spackman steps down to become comment editor of The Times. Tom Wh…
Times Archive, the 200-year web archive of the paper’s print material, will drop its free introductory offer as planned and go pay-for this…
News International will merge the back office operations of its News Group titles, according to indications of what will be contained in Bos…
Times Online has switched on the 200-year digital archive we revealed in May that it would launch. Times Archive includes more than 20 milli…
The Murdochisation of the Wall Street Journal is complete: publisher Robert Thomson is ceding that role to Dow Jones CEO and former News Int…
This’ll ruffle some feathers amongst rival editors. ComScore claims Sun Online is the UK’s most popular news website, with 4.29 million mont…
Catching up on news from the Bank Holiday weekend and the end of last week…
— MySpace: The social net has unveiled a UK version of its S…
Times Online has set up an advertising office in New York and will work with News Corp
Suddenly, the economics of free don’t look so rosy. Thelondonpaper, the freesheet Rupert Murdoch’s News International started in 2006, made…
The Propertyfinder home search site is buying HotProperty.co.uk operator Sherlock Publications for £5.6 million, uniting the two under the…
The News Of The World has been forced to remove from its website a story that made lurid allegations about Derby County manager Paul Jewell’…
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) won the rights to show Champions League matches on internet and mobile until 2012, along with the majority of TV matches (…
It seems the days of premium subscription content are not fully over. The News Of The World newspaper this Sunday launches Fabulous Diets, a…
For years, millions of expectant web users have hit up MySpace.co.uk, only to find a site adorned with ads and unrelated to the social netwo…
Times Online is in hot water with social media fans for secretly “spamming” dozens of said sites with links to the online newspaper. Blogger…
Some blunt thoughts from The Sun editor Rebekah Wade on Sun Online’s contribution to the paper’s overall fortune. “We have a set of projecti…
UK real estate portal Propertyfinder.com has appointed former MSN UK MD Gillian Kent as its new CEO. In a statement, Kent said that the UK p…
The Sun is likely to introduce a user-generated content website inviting women to upload video auditions to become Page 3 girls. Built by th…
Telegraph Media Group is doing it, Guardian News & Media will do it, even Media Wales is up to the same trick – newsroom integration. As eac…
The Times has launched an online version of its new luxury magazine Luxx, going head-to-head with a similar Economist spin-off across both p…
From our newest site paidContent:UK: News Corp’s UK newspaper publisher News International has made a “multi-million” investment in London-b…
The Sun and The Times publisher News International has made a “multi-million” investment in Globrix – a property search engine that aims to…
British tabloid The Sun online bingo revenues are proving to be publisher News Group Digital’s biggest cash cow. Revenues from commercial re…
“Not only does The Sun Online provide a new channel for established and new readers to experience and communicate with the tabloid, it also…
