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Yahoo, ABC News Team Up

Kevin Spak — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:26:42 CDT

ABC News and Yahoo! announced a major new alliance today that will make ABC the “premier news provider” for Yahoo’s news sites. “Teaming with Yahoo will transform the future of ABC News by distributing your journalism to a vast new audience,” ABC News President Ben Sherwood wrote in his announcement...

New York Times Asks Twitter to Plug Paywall Loophole

Rob Quinn — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:58:49 CDT

The pay barrier for the New York Time s' online content goes up on Monday and the newspaper is scrambling to make it more like a wall and less like a curtain full of holes. Users will be allowed 20 page views a month before the barrier comes down. But...

NY Times Paywall Starts This Month

Matt Cantor — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:54:48 CDT

The New York Times website will start charging customers for unlimited access starting March 28, the newspaper announced . Users will be able to read up to 20 articles for free, but beyond that, they’ll have to pay $15 per month for full access to the site and mobile app. For...

HuffPo Writers: How About Some Pay?

Rob Quinn — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:43:05 CST

The Huffington Post's sale to AOL for $315 million —and the estimated $18 million to $100 million Arianna Huffington made on the deal—has left the news site's unpaid contributors wondering where their piece of the pie is, the Daily notes. "My share of the Huffington Post sale, zero dollars,...

AOL-HuffPo Deal Seems Pretty Win-Win

Matt Cantor — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:39:44 CST

AOL's purchase of the Huffington Post is drawing plenty of muted cheers—and a few harsh critiques. Most seem to agree that both sides come out ahead. “The content rollup has begun,” writes Michael Wolff at MediaWeek , and new media is becoming old media—"if it’s lucky." Calling the buy...

Newsweek -Beast Merger: Marriage of the 'Wounded'?

Matt Cantor — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:30:00 CST

With Newsweek and the Daily Beast teaming up, Tina Brown, who will edit both publications, has a lot on her plate. Media critics are divided on the move; some call success unlikely. “The merger may be a marriage of two wounded media operations," writes Douglas McIntyre at Daily Finance . Newsweek...

Brown, Huffington Tweak Feud Report

Rob Quinn — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:45:09 CDT

Sure, the Daily Beast's Tina Brown wants a Newsweek merger because she crazy-hates rival Arianna Huffington, or so claims the Guardian. "We are sooooo busted," laments one AriHuff in a "leaked" IM conversation with one TBrown. "How did they find out we 'simply cannot stand each other?' I thought we’d...

Glenn Beck Launches News Website

Rob Quinn — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:47:17 CDT

Glenn Beck has launched a news and opinion website that supporters believe has the potential to become "the conservative Huffington Post." TheBlaze.com is being edited by former Breitbart TV host Scott Baker. The site, launched late last night, will focus on "news and information,” Baker tells Mediaite . “Some commentary...

World Cup Swamps the Internet

Kevin Spak — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:13:00 CDT

World Cup fever is gripping the globe, and the internet can barely handle it. Today saw the greatest demand ever for news sites, according to Akamai’s bandwidth monitoring. Akamai, the world’s largest computer network operator, has received 11 million visitor requests every minute today, a 233% jump above normal levels,...