Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times’ website for global audience, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) - but, in reality, the two are still an ocean apart.

News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) has appointed Lex Fenwick as the CEO of Dow Jones & Company, filling the position left open following Les Hinton’s resignation in July.

So it’s redundancy time once again. First, at the two Telegraph titles and now at the Mirror trio.

I’ll bet The Times sub-editors raised some eyebrows when their business writer Emily Ford filed her piece, Why I’m not paying any more, for the weekend…

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…

Mecom is to introduce digital pay models across its top newspaper titles, slash costs by €70m and potentially close or sell 65 free titles, following a wide-ranging strategic review by new chief executive Tom Toumazis.

Stark new research statistics suggest digital replacement of analogue content is now very high amongst tablet owners.

News International’s recently-appointed digital product director is trying to make the publisher more agile and innovative in digital media - and the phone hacking scandal in which the company is embroiled may even have helped the effort.

News Of The World’s closure deprived News International of data on which it could have based a decision to introduce digital fees at the UK’s most popular newspaper.

The UK’s largest regional newspaper title, the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star, is ending the premium online payment tier it introduced in April 2011, whilst introducing updated paid tablet and smartphone editions.

The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money from those free apps. New research out today predicts that in-app purchases will, in fact, become the most dominant way that app developers will…

(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…

Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. and abroad. Now as newspaper readers move to new platforms like tablets to consume their news content, the AP wants to make sure it is syndicating…

This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers. One early sign of this shift was the 2010 launch of paywalls for the London Times and Sunday Times. These involved no new strategy; however, the newspaper…

Up to 100 newspaper titles in Italy are facing closure because of the government’s subsidy cuts - down from €170m a year to €53m (£142/£44m).

Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source - but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says.

Nearly 10 percent of traffic to UK newspaper websites comes from non-computer devices—that’s the highest in the world, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Device Essentials research in Ofcom’s International Communications Market Report 2011.

Last year, News International made The Times and The Sun newspapers free on Christmas and used the opportunity to promote their respective iPad apps to all those folks who got them as presents. This year, the UK publisher, owned by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), will give the same treatment to…

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.