NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Wall Street Journal said on Sunday that its Web site now has 1 million subscribers, a milestone for a site that charges for access even as other sites are throwing themselves open for free. It also comes as News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch, who is buying the Journal's parent company Dow Jones & Company Inc, contemplates scrapping the Journal's subscription model in favor of...
Guardian Unlimited posted an increase of nearly a million users over the past month to hit the highest-ever unique user figure for a UK net newspaper. According to the figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronics, the web pages of the Guardian newspaper were accessed by 16.7 million people in September. This far outstrips the reach of the real-world copy of the newspaper, which has an...
Disgruntled fans of Sheffield Wednesday who vented their dissatisfaction with the football club's bigwigs in anonymous internet postings may face expensive libel claims after the chairman, chief executive and five directors won a high-court ruling last week forcing the owner of a website to reveal their identity. The case, featuring the website owlstalk.co.uk, is the second within days to...
How many people visited Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, last month? Was it 421,000, or, more optimistically, 497,000? Or was the real number more than three times higher, perhaps 1.8 million? The answer — which may be any, or none, of the above — is a critical one for Condé Nast, which owns the site, and for companies like Ralph Lauren, which pay to advertise there. Condé Nast...
Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. But investors are still wary--and for good reason, as long-term growth is by no means certain. A report by U.K.-based Datamonitor, titled "The future of social networking: Understanding market strategic and technological...
While pundits are quick to predict the Internet will drive a stake into the heart of big media, executives from CBS and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) this week were defiant against the threat, saying the Web is less of an enemy and more of an opportunity to expand their businesses. During an onstage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Amy Banse, president of Comcast's interactive division...
More than 160 years of articles from the Economist are set to become available online with the launch of The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003. The archive will contain more than 600,000 pages of the weekly magazine's reporting and analysis. It is a joint project between Gale - part of Cengage Learning - and the Economist. "The Economist Historical Archive is more than a database - it is a...
Advertising is likely to start appearing on the BBC.com website from next month. BBC Worldwide is moving quickly to generate revenues from its global audience following approval for the controversial plan from the BBC Trust. From later today, an "advertise with us" link is set to appear for the first time on BBC.com news pages. BBC.com has an estimated 26.5m international visitors a month...
Every edition of the Guardian and Observer newspapers is to be made available via a newly launched online digital archive. The first phase of the Guardian News & Media archive, containing the Guardian from 1821 to 1975 and The Observer from 1900 to 1975, will launch on November 3. It will contain exact replicas of the original newspapers, both as full pages and individual articles. and will be...
The Internet has not yet become an effective tool for human rights in the Arab world, says a recent study by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo). The 215-page study, 'Electronic Media and Human Rights', is the first in Arabic to discuss human rights in the discourse of electronic Arabic media outlets. It also surveyed use of the Internet by human rights organisations. Although
