The championship of the online newspaper world changed hands the other day. The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) (as measured by comScore (NSDQ: SCOR), currently the most fashionable collector of digital evidence extant) had 44.8m unique visitors in December, while our own dear Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) had 45.3m. Manhattan’s…

For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using…

Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Post for business. This is not the first non-U.S. edition of the news site, but it is the first to produce the content in partnership with an…

(This version corrects an error in the percentage for the price increase of the FT) Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a paywall of sorts and closely monitoring what everyone else is doing. In almost every news company, execs are morosely watching advertising projections and finding numbers that…

The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) today continued its recent penchant for making the news as well as reporting it. New details are emerging about a handsome pay package the company will give outgoing CEO Janet Robinson.

As I ponder the future of The New York Times, it occurred to me that its pay meter could be exactly reversed. I’ll also tell you why this wouldn’t work in a minute. But in any case, this is a way to illustate how how media are valuing our readers/users/customers…

Who will follow Janet Robinson in one of the highest profile—and most challenging—media jobs? The rumors and suggestions, ranging from the rational to the ridiculous, are flying about possible candidates for CEO of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) as the search for internal and external candidates begins.

Janet Robinson is retiring as president and CEO of The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) at the end of the month, the company announced after the market closed Thursday. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., NYTCo chairman and publisher of The New York Times, will serve as interim CEO until the company…

A new day, and a new device to challenge Apple’s iPad in the market for tablets.

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 they each faring with subscriber acquisition? Here’s our analysis…

Part of the bet that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) made when it began building the metered paywall for the NYTimes.com was that the audience was larger than just northern, east coast readers. In a conversation at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, CEO Janet Robinson said that the…

A security breach has led to the WikiLeaks archive of 251,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables being made available online, without redaction to protect sources. WikiLeaks has been releasing the cables over nine months by partnering with mainstream media organisations.

The Daily Mail is more than happy for people to share links to articles from its site—it’s an important part of it maintaining its position as a hugely popular news destination—but proxy sites that don’t link back to the Mail itself? That’s a whole different story. Lawyers for Associated Newspapers,…

For those tracking the success of the NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) meter that started ticking in March, the New York Times says it ended the second quarter with more than 1 million digital subscribers.

For a man who’s spent his entire life in the media business and understands it as well as anybody who’s ever lived, Rupert Murdoch is quite astonishingly inept at crisis management.

Courtesy of my colleague Robert Andrews, I tuned into a replay of a BBC interview with New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) digital head Martin Nisenholtz—only to hear a jaw dropper when interviewer Steve Hewlett mentioned a first-year target of 300,000 digital subscriptions. “Inaccurate,” Nisenholtz replied. “I don’t know where…

They may share both a name and new online fees, but onlookers shouldn’t confuse the new access models of The New York Times and Britain’s The Times. Though each is historically the “paper of record” in their respective countries, each online strategy is quite different - but each may be…

The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) says it has more than 100,000 paid digital subscribers in the first three weeks of its metered paywall. That would put it one third of the way towards a privately stated goal of 300,000 paid subscribers the first year. That number does not include…

To the competition between NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) and HuffingtonPost.com, add two British challengers…