Comments on: More Pulitzers, Less Money: New York Times Ad Sales Down 27 Percent; Q2 Looks Just as Bad

By: The World Condensed » Blog Archive » A Mixed Bag From the New York Times: Q2 Costs Got Better, Ads Got Worse, and Web Dollars Disappeared

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:24:18 +0000

[...] The Times posted an operating profit of $23.3 million; without one-time charges that number would have been $66.1 million. That’s worse than the $100 million the paper made a year ago, but much better than the $74.5 million it lost (net) in Q1. [...]

By: A Mixed Bag From the New York Times: Q2 Costs Got Better, Ads Got Worse, and Web Dollars Disappeared | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:28:00 +0000

[...] The Times posted an operating profit of $23.3 million; without one time charges that number would have been $66.1 million. That’s worse than the $100 million the paper made a year ago, but much better than the $74.5 million it lost (net) in Q1. [...]

By: Is the Newspaper Ad Slump Ending? No. But It’s Looking Less Lousy. [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:58:41 +0000

[...] That’s because the Times had previously warned that its Q2 would look as unpleasant as its Q1, when its ad sales dropped 27 percent; anything less lousy will constitute a win. Investors seem eager to hear about it: NYT shares are [...]

By: Is the Newspaper Ad Slump Ending? No. But It’s Looking Less Lousy [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:59:03 +0000

[...] because the Times had previously warned that its Q2 would look as unpleasant as its Q1, when its ad sales dropped 27%; anything less lousy will constitute a win. Investors seem eager to hear about it: NYT shares are [...]

By: Is the Newspaper Ad Slump Ending? No. But It’s Looking Less Lousy | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:19:23 +0000

By: The Washington Post Hit Harder Than The New York Times | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Fri, 01 May 2009 14:56:53 +0000

[...] percent it posted in the previous quarter. And it’s lousier than the poor results the Times posted last month, when it reported that overall ad revenue had dropped 27 [...]

By: Weekend Update, 4.26.09 [Digital Daily] | tech.shaundunne.com

Weekend Update, 4.26.09 [Digital Daily] | tech.shaundunne.com — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:15:29 +0000

[...] The New York Times’s (NYT) news of five Pulitzer prizes was offset by additional news that ad sales are down 27 percent, regardless. In further bad news, the newspaper industry is unlikely to get any bailout from [...]

By: Weekend Update, 4.26.09 [Digital Daily] | tech.shaundunne.com

Weekend Update, 4.26.09 [Digital Daily] | tech.shaundunne.com — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:15:29 +0000

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Tech Whiz Underground » Weekend Update, 4.26.09 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:06:49 +0000

By: Weekend Update, 4.26.09 | Beth Callaghan | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:18:05 +0000

By: Newspapers Desperately Burnish Traffic Stats [MediaMemo] | tech.shaundunne.com

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:07:46 +0000

[...] this week, the New York Times (NYT) reported that online ad revenue had shrunk 6.1 percent in the last quarter. Today, newspaper publisher McClatchy Company (MNI), which publishes regional papers like the [...]

By: Newspapers Desperately Burnish Traffic Stats | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:44:14 +0000

[...] this week, the New York Times (NYT) reported that online ad revenue had shrunk 6.1% in the last quarter. Today, newspaper publisher McClatchy Company (MNI), which publishes regional papers like the [...]

By: Bjorn Tipling

Bjorn Tipling — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:58:00 +0000

Ok, thanks for checking. :/

By: Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:24:55 +0000

Bjorn, I checked. The answer, from our tech crew: It’s you. The font size has stayed the same.

By: Lisa Post Tornes

Lisa Post Tornes — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:38:45 +0000

I don’t understand why they don’t start charging for content. I read multiple articles on the NYTimes site nearly every day and would pay for it if they asked me to. Why don’t journalists–the good journalists, writing well-reported, well-written content you can’t easily get elsewhere–start demanding to get paid for what they do?