| New York Times (NYT) October Ghastly | | The New York Times (NYT) cash crisis certainly didn't improve in October:
Ad revenue dropped 16% year over year, worse than September and one of the worst months to date (August was -18%).
[..] Read complete article |  | Published 21-Nov-2008 by Alley In in nyt Read 1 times |
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| Boston Globe Lays Off 42 (NYT) | | More layoffs in the dying newspaper industry, this time at the New York Times Company's (NYT) Boston Globe. 42 employees are being shown the door, mostly managers in advertising, circulation, and marketing. The entire newsroom was spare [..] Read complete article |  | Published 07-Nov-2008 by Silicon in nyt Read 2 times |
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| Yesterday's New York Times Price Soars 1000% | | New plan for the New York Times, which is running on fumes: Sell newspapers for $1.50 on the newstand and then, after they sell out and thousands line up at world headquarters to get a copy, sell them on the Internet with a 996% markup a day later.*
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| ABC News Cancels Christmas, Print Subscriptions | | Expect to see more of this: Fat broadcast and print media operations getting leaner by cutting posh hotel stays, business-class flights, and unnecessary print subscriptions. (Sadly, that probably includes you, New York Times [..] Read complete article |  | Published 24-Oct-2008 by Silicon in nyt Read 2 times |
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| New York Times (NYT) Running On Fumes | | Not sure how it came to this so fast, but the New York Times (NYT) is approaching the point where it will have to manage its business primarily to conserve cash and avoid defaulting on its debt. This situation will only get worse as adver [..] Read complete article |  | Published 23-Oct-2008 by Silicon in nyt Read 2 times |
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| TimesPeople, The New York Times' Social Network, Launching Tonight | | The New York Times (NYT) is launching its "TimesPeople" social network tonight, which lets you recommend stories to your friends and see what they're recommending and commenting on -- a useful, unintrusive feature that makes sense.
You'll also be able to share ratings/reviews of movies, shows, restaurants, and hotels; get RSS feeds of your friends' activity; or sync your activit [..] Read complete article |  | Published 22-Sep-2008 by Silicon in nyt Read 0 times |
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| NYT July Revenues Terrible, Even Online | | Print revenues are in free-fall, and there doesn't seem to be a bottom. So the last thing the New York Times Company (NYT) needs is a sharp decline in digital and online ad revenue growth.
But that [..] Read complete article |  | Published 26-Aug-2008 by Silicon in nyt Read 2 times |
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| NYT's Ugly Q2: Misses Revenue | | Another miserable quarter for the New York Times (NYT), which couldn't clear its revenue goal. Advertising revenue is down 11.8%. Things will continue to stink indefinitely, the paper says, beca [..] Read complete article |  | Published 23-Jul-2008 by Silicon in nyt Read 0 times |
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| The New York Times Gets LinkedIn | | The New York Times' (NYT) latest effort to add more features to its Web site: A new partnership with business-focused social networking site LinkedIn, announced to [..] Read complete article |  | Published 22-Jul-2008 by Silicon in nyt Read 3 times |
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| NYT's "TimesPeople" Social Network: Another Good Idea From The Times | | The latest New York Times (NYT) digital feature: TimesPeople, a social network for Times users. Good news: You'd have to look pretty hard to find similarities between it and Facebook or MySpace.
In its current, beta form, TimesPeople is mostly a few features tucked into a Firefox browser tool bar -- not the bloated set of messaging features and status updates that you' [..] Read complete article |  | Published 18-Jun-2008 by Silicon in nyt Read 0 times |
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| Grading the Top 25 Newspaper Web Sites | | The newspaper industry is desperately trying to migrate its business online before fleeing print advertisers consign it to history. Most newspapers, unfortunately, are doing a piss-poor job of t [..] Read complete article |  | Published 03-Jun-2008 by Silicon in nyt Read 3 times |
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