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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Bloggers are surprisingly picky about the ads they will accept, according to panelists taking part in the Ad:Tech "Blogvertising Opportunities," session at the New York Hilton. Standing room only The topic of the mechanics and trends involved in blog advertising turned out to be one of the three-day conference's hottest, drawing an overflow, standing-room only crowd to the...

Profits at the Telegraph group fell 11% last year despite increased sales, as the newspaper group spent more on marketing to compete against the Times. In accounts filed at Companies House which are not yet available, the group reveals it made an operating profit of £31.5m on sales of £313m. This compares with the previous year's profit of £35.7m on sales of £305m. The company, which was bought...

The New York Times' new online subscription-based product, TimesSelect has netted 135,000 new paid subscribers since its launch on September 19. The total number of subscribers, which includes home-delivery readers who do not have to pay, is 270,000 subscribers since its introduction less than two months ago, the New York Times Company reported on Wednesday. Though the company's move to put its...

The New York Times has recorded its best advertising performance in five years. The New York Times Company's flagship newspaper saw advertising revenues increasing by 9.4 per cent in October this year compared to the same period last year, the company reported on Wednesday. In October 2005 advertising revenues for the company's business units increased 4.8 per cent and total company revenues...

IN A DEAL THAT EXPANDS MSN's reach, the company said Wednesday it will syndicate its video player to affiliates of the Associated Press and sell rich media video ads to accompany AP videos. "[The Associated Press] are bringing to the table distribution, through their 3,500 affiliates, and bringing an unmatched news-gathering organization," said MSN's director of advertising and business strategy...

AOL NEWS HAS ADDED CBS Digital Media video and text news to its content mix, the two companies said Wednesday. Although CBS, like AOL, is making an aggressive push to drive traffic to its own Web sites, the branding potential of the deal was enough to outweigh any CBS concerns that the arrangement helps a rival gain eyeballs. "As opposed to traditional, the Web lives and thrives in shades of gray...

The head of the Chinese Internet company that has acquired Yahoo's China operations has defended the US portal's decision to help communist authorities track down and prosecute dissident journalist Shi Tao, the Financial Times has reported. Yahoo has been widely condemned for assisting the case against Shi Tao, who was jailed for 10 years in April this year for revealing information about...

MADRID (AFP) - Newspapers have no future without online and digital services, media executives heard at a World Association of Newspapers meeting in Madrid. "We are getting the whole organisation ready for a digital future," said Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing at Guardian Newspapers, whose Guardian Unlimited site is by far the most popular British newspaper online site, ahead of The...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The largest shareholder in Knight Ridder Inc. is turning up the pressure on the newspaper publisher, saying in a regulatory filing Thursday that it may nominate a slate of directors at the company's annual meeting next year. Private Capital Management LP, an investment firm based in Naples, Fla., said it was considering that and other moves to boost the value of its 19 percent...

The decision by Knight Ridder's third-largest shareholder group to join the call for the San Jose company to sell itself was motivated by a sluggish stock price, and was not intended to make any grand statements about the future of the newspaper industry. Henry R. Berghoef, portfolio manager and director of research at Harris Associates in Chicago, which owns 8.2 percent of Knight Ridder's stock...