2005-2014

Finding out for free what New York Times columnists think about events at home and abroad ended yesterday when the newspaper started charging a fee to access its Web site. In a bid to generate more money from nytimes.com and support new journalism initiatives, the Times has stopped free online access to 22 columnists, including Thomas L. Friedman, Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman. People who...

IN A NOD TO THE growing influence of the blogosphere, CBS.com, WashingtonPost.com, and ABCNews.com have recently launched blogs in their Web sites. On Monday, ABCNews.com launched three blogs--one for coverage of Washington, D.C., one for science and technology developments, and one for news related to the U.S. Supreme Court. CBS entered the blogosphere last month with a blog dubbed "The Public...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Times Co. said Tuesday it would cut about 500 jobs, or about 4 percent of its work force, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce costs. The reductions come atop another 200 jobs that were cut earlier this year. The Times said it expected 250 jobs at its main newspaper group to be affected, which includes the Times, the International Herald Tribune and the online...

UK media policy is dominated by a cosy cartel of politicians, government advisers and industry lobbyists, according to new research. Despite government assertions that media policy is increasingly transparent, the report argues that it is centralised, opaque and controlled by a small number of advisers and media experts. Based on interviews with 40 leading media policy-makers, the research...

NEW YORK -- asap is here. The Associated Press has launched its younger audience service in a bid to attract the 18-to-34-year-old demographic group to AP's members and subscribers. AP today began delivering online and print content to members and subscribers who have signed up for the premium service. asap content, which includes words, pictures, sounds, moving images, blogs and interactive...

Politicians who deliberately leak confidential information to the press get away with it most of the time, a study has revealed. Researchers at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands spoke to journalists and editors at 50 Dutch daily newspapers and found that not one believed using leaked information posed a moral problem. According to the survey, leaked information was generally published...

Google is planning a partner forum for about 400 people, including bloggers and journalists from major media outlets, and is prohibiting participants from writing about it, according to a search engine industry expert. Dubbed "Zeitgeist '05: The Google Partner Forum," the event is "the first 'customer innovation conference' Google said it has ever held," wrote Danny Sullivan in his Search Engine...

Good morning TimesSelect seems to say Steve Outing in a recent column of Editor & Publisher. Regarding the new paid service from The New York Times providing exclusive online access to Op-Ed columnists, the NYT archives and some web tools, he considers that "the hybrid online publishing model is a good one (keep most of the news Web site free, but build a suite of premium services worth paying for...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, is alarmed by the arrest of more than 80 journalists at a protest in Kathmandu and the exodus of journalists from Dailekh district, fearing for their lives. "Press freedom and respect for the rights of journalists in Nepal are being shot to pieces by a...

NEW YORK: Newspapers, it seems, have a knack for getting people what they want. According to a new study released by Newspaper Services of America and co-funded by the Newspaper Association of America, 60% of respondents said that newspapers deal with issues they care about. That beat out TV, radio, magazines, and the Internet. Newspapers also deliver the most comprehensive source of news, said 46...