Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Who’s Joining Steve Jobs for the Tablet Launch Next Week?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Condé Nast’s Offering for Apple’s Mystery Tablet: Wired Magazine
Here’s yet another content creator that’s convinced Apple has a tablet device in the works: Condé Nast says it will have a digital version of Wired magazine ready for the purported gadget by the middle of next year and will eventually create similar versions for all of its 18 titles.
But Condé, like other publishers, says Apple won’t actually talk to the company about its plans for the device–or even acknowledge that it has plans.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
What Does the New York Times Really Know About Apple’s Tablet? “I Ain’t Sayin’,” Says Editor Bill Keller.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The New York Times Explains Why It Prints Old News
Friday, May 15, 2009
New York Times Online Payment Plan Coming Soon?
The New York Times has already tried charging people to read part of its Web site. Now, like everyone else in the publishing business, it’s trying to figure out how to charge for online access again. The Times is reportedly mulling two options: A Financial Times-style “metered” approach and a Salon/NPR/PBS version whereby everyone gets free access to the site, but subscribers/donors get bonus goodies.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
More Pulitzers, Less Money: New York Times Ad Sales Down 27 Percent; Q2 Looks Just as Bad
Yesterday the New York Times won five Pulitzer Prizes and executive editor Bill Keller took a well-deserved victory lap with a speech that reportedly had his newsroom in tears. But for better or worse, none of that matters to investors, who are trying to figure out what the company’s long-term prospects look like. In the near term, they look terrible.
In the first three months of this year, the company saw ad sales drop 27 percent, and the Internet no longer helps: Web ad sales were down 6.1 percent. The company says to expect more of the same, for a while.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
New York Times Cuts Salaries, Jobs
Last year, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller told the newspaper’s newsroom that he would try very hard to not fire any of them. But he didn’t say anything about pay cuts. The Times today announced that it would be cutting salaries of its nonunion employees from 2.5 percent to 5 percent, and that it would be asking for “similar” cuts from its unionized newsroom workers “in a spirit of shared sacrifice and as a way to otherwise avoid layoffs in the newsroom.” It has also laid off 100 employees from its business operations.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
New York Times: Kindle Sales Are a “Modest” Business
The New York Times’s top editor says the paper is considering trying to charge people for a digital version again–and notes that some people are already buying one via Amazon’s e-book reader. Not enough to be meaningful, but it does prove at that least some folks will pay for stuff they can get for free.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
New York Times Employment Columnist Now Unemployed
For the last year and a half, New York Times columnist Marci Alboher wrote about other people’s jobs. Yesterday, she wrote about her own–the one she no longer has at the paper. Since she was a contractor, this doesn’t count as a violation of Executive Editor Bill Keller’s “no more layoffs, we hope” kind-of pledge. But the Times is going to have a hard time keeping its existing payroll intact.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
New York Times Boss to Staff: Keep Up the Good Work, and We Probably Won’t Fire You
Here’s a nice summation of the state of newspapers today: A pep talk to a newspaper’s staff now consists of a pledge not to fire said staff. That’s what New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller told his charges yesterday, and even then he couldn’t make the promise ironclad.
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