Posts Tagged "New York Times"

The Failing New York Times released its third-quarter numbers this morning and, well, if the rest of the news industry was doing this well, we could shut down Nieman Lab and grab some worry-free beach time in warmer climes. Its ongoing transition from print to digital revenue has been managed without the staffing disruption just about everyone has seen, and it continues to see significant jumps in paying digital subscribers, seven years after launching the paywall and two years after its initial Trump bump. It’s doing fine.

Publishers need to find additional sources of revenue and, worryingly, the new generation of so-called “distributed content” services, which held such promise a year ago, are not cutting the mustard. Services such as Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News and Google Accelerated Mobile Pages were supposed to make it easier for publishers to monetise their journalism.

Publisher sees opportunity for the NYT to become an ‘indispensable leader in global news and opinion’ over the next three years

Blendle, a Dutch startup that sells access to articles from media outlets in the Netherlands and elsewhere on a per-article basis, has closed a $3.8M Series A funding round led by the New York Times and German media giant Axel Springer

Second-quarter advertising revenue at The New York Times Co. fell 4.1%

Second-quarter advertising revenue at The New York Times Co. fell 4.1%

The digital figures, featuring the most famous metered paywall in global publishing, sound great

The digital figures, featuring the most famous metered paywall in global publishing, sound great

The New York Times is seeing continued growth in subscription revenue thanks to its paywall, but at the same time its advertising revenue is still falling, both in print and online