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Just as companies and even armies are becoming media entities, so are...
We’ve written about how social media and the “democratization of distribution” that the web allows has turned companies like Tesla into media entities in their own right, and has done the same thing...
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Boston Globe’s 28,000 digital subscribers: a flop or a foothold?
It’s been nearly a year and a half since the Boston Globe put a paywall in place and, so far, the results are underwhelming. The Globe, which is one of the last regional papers owned by the New York...
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New York Times is selling the Boston Globe
The New York Times Company has been slimming down rapidly in the last year, shedding non-core assets and amassing a cash hoard to take it through a trying time of low ad sales. Now, the Times is...
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The massive advertising shift that Twitter is trying to capitalize on with...
Much has been written about the disruption taking place in the media industry as a result of the web and the atomization of content, but less has been said about how the advertising business — on which...
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Here comes the “International New York Times”— NYT rebrands the Int’l Herald...
The New York Times has taken another step in its strategy of becoming a global news brand. On Monday, the company announced it will rename the International Herald Tribune and officially launch a...
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Marco Arment’s digital magazine and the paywall vs. sharing problem
When it comes to new-media players worth watching, Marco Arment’s iPad-only publication — known simply as “The Magazine” — is at or near the top of the list, if only because it is a totally new,...
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New York Times backs AP in lawsuit against news collector Meltwater
The New York Times is supporting the Associated Press in a controversial copyright case against Meltwater, a service that monitors the news and reproduces headlines and story summaries for its clients....
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New York Times gives Starbucks visitors 15 free stories a day
Caffeine-addicted New York Times fans are in luck — the paper is offering 15 free articles a day to those who surf its website while sitting in a Starbucks. This is just the latest example of how news...
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Disruption guru Clay Christensen says incumbent media players are making a...
Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen, who has helped shape much of the thinking around technological disruption with his landmark book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” has been taking a close...
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Bradley Manning provides more evidence of why we need a media entity like...
Bradley Manning, the former U.S. army private who is being tried by a military court for leaking classified documents after spending almost three years in jail, admitted on Thursday that he gave...
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If Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks are guilty, then so is the New York Times
While the trial of Bradley Manning has sparked some interest in certain circles, many people probably think the former U.S. Army private’s case will have little impact on either them or American...
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“Finding out who your real friends are”: How David Carr views paid content
Here’s how things used to work, New York Times media columnist David Carr said in a keynote at SXSW Sunday: People would leave college, get a job, get married, reproduce, go to IKEA and “start to worry...
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Why a LinkedIn acquisition of Pulse would make sense — content requires context
According to a number of reports from insiders close to the company — including some who have talked to Om and some who have talked to All Things Digital — LinkedIn is considering an acquisition of...
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Big publishers sign on to New York Times sticky ad tool
The New York Times Company last year unveiled an ad tool called Ricochet that allows brands to staple their online ads to stories as they move across the internet and social media. Now, other prominent...
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Media outlets will argue in Apple, Samsung appeal over sealed documents
A federal appeals court has allowed the New York Times and other media outlets to argue against sealing documents in the “patent trial of the century” between Apple and Samsung that took place last...
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The “barbell problem” in media: The ends are fine, but the middle is getting...
While in New York this week for a GigaOM event, I had coffee and lunch with a number of media-industry insiders and observers, including Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky – two people I think are among the...
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Citizen journalism at work: Unemployed British man becomes Syrian weapons expert
While some traditional journalists may not like the term, we’ve seen a growing number of examples of “citizen journalism” emerge that make it obvious how powerful that phenomenon has become — from the...
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New York Times closes another loophole in its digital paywall
Look out, media cheapskates — the New York Times is losing patience with your skinflint ways. After imposing a metered paywall last year to restrict how many articles non-subscribers can read for free,...
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The Daily Mail: Paywall? We don’t need no stinking paywall
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!” — Gold Hat, Treasure of the Sierra Madre As newspapers around the world rush to erect paywalls...
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Why is it so hard for us to imagine that a site like BuzzFeed could do...
BuzzFeed may be known to most for its “viral” posts about dogs who look like Richard Nixon and other ephemera, but the site has been making some significant moves into more serious fare over the past...
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