Here's a fantastically odd way to interact with your readers: Invite them for an "informal" and "off the record" "tea", wherein, they use said readers as a focus group for their product! Read More
To hear Martin Clarke tell it, The Daily Mail accrued its online readership in America nearly by accident. Lining a landing page with paparazzi shots headlined with expressions of awe and outrage, making the bikini a newsworthy event—that was not transatlantic outreach, just British custom. “Originally we focused ruthlessly on our British audience because that Read More
The best part of the day comes around 2:00 or so in the afternoon, when our Twitter feed is temporarily dominated by tweets from @michaelsnewyork. Michael's, the bastion of the media/politics/finance power lunch, has made a successful and entertaining leap into the world of social media with its Twitter account, which will report in Read More
Last week, I wrote about the DealBook franchise at The New York Times, which in nine years has expanded from a simple morning email newsletter to an entire arm of the newspaper's business section. That growth comes in a certain context: for decades The Wall Street Journal has dominated American business coverage, but ever Read More
After two years at the Financial Times, media reporter Ken Li is returning to Reuters as the editor-in-charge of technology, media and telecommunications coverage, according to a release. (We have never heard this title before, but we assume editor-at-large and editor-in-chief had a baby, and Reuters adopted it.)
Mr. Li has a few large feathers Read More
The Financial Times was the first news organization to win a "Best iPad App" award at the 2010 Apple Design Awards last night.
The award recognizes the broadsheet's handsome digital pages full of content curated by editors and customized by the user (and the decision to stick with a pink background on the iPad). The Read More
The Financial Times (noted paywall role model) is trying to make micropayments a non-obnoxious option through the use of PayPal.
FT CEO John Ridding has said that the site will use PayPal to offer daily and weekly passes, reports paidContent.
"Done right, micropayments can support a subscription model," Ridding said at a London Read More
The Financial Times's web site, purported model for The Times impending paywall, has gotten a little less accessible. It used to be possible to circumvent the site's restictions by searching an article's headline, taking advantage of Google's "First-Click-Free" plan--but no more. Searchers will now be limited to five articles per day.
The Financial Times, a model for The New York Times metered pay-plan, is making some changes.
FT.com will be adding a "day pass" feature early this year, as well as a new mobile app. Managing Director Rob Grimshaw told Journalism.co.uk:
"It's something we think will have a market. It's reasonable to Read More
"[W]hen you see those transcripts, it's like out of an Oliver Stone movie. It's like somebody wrote this guy into the plot of a movie..."—Dan Barrett, quoted by Bob Seidenberg, The Evanston Review.
"I have never even seen or heard anything like this. I don’t even know if a Hollywood movie producer could come Read More
The newspaper announced yesterday that later this month it will initiate a program that allows online readers to access 30 articles a month without registering as paying members of the site.
Presently most of its content Read More
Brooke Masters, the Financial Times reporter who wrote a biography of Eliot Spitzer will discuss her book and the incoming governor tomorrow night at an event hosted by Gotham Gazette. The event starts at and will be held at the auditorium of the Public Library at 425 6th Avenue (at 10th street). It's Read More
We consume. We rarely think of how food or energy is created or how it gets to where we purchase it. We may see a truck, but we rarely think about large ships or the trains that deliver America’s new old favorite energy “alternative”—coal. I remember the C.B. craze and trucker-oriented movies and television shows Read More
Three weeks ago, Tony Judt, a professor of European studies at N.Y.U., published a devastating piece in the Israeli daily Haaretz. Titled "The Country That Wouldn't Grow Up," it argued that Israel's contempt for world opinion of its actions had caused it to lose touch with reality. the State of Israel remains curiously (and Read More
