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NEW YORK: When The New York Times' columnists became part of NYTimes.com's premium subscription service this week, it changed the way New York Times News Service subscribers can use these popular pundits online. Previously, NYTNS clients could post Times columns on their Web sites for 24 hours if they also published them in their print editions. Now, newspapers can post the work of Maureen Dowd...

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...

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 ONLINE VERSION OF THE New York Times today intends to launch a paid service, TimesSelect, which will put some of the paper's most popular voices--including David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, and Nicholas Kristof--behind a paid wall. Access to these and other columnists, plus exclusive features and the Times's archives, now requires either $7.95 per month or $49.49 per year. TimesSelect is available...

BOULDER, Colo. (September 16, 2005) -- NYTimes.com debuts a major initiative on Monday: TimesSelect, a paid-subscription service that grants access to selected premium Web content and services. This is a big deal, for the New York Times, and for the newspaper industry. Now, up front let me say that I like the overall thrust of this initiative -- but I'm skeptical of one major component, putting...

‘India Today’, the flagship weekly magazine from Living Media India Ltd, is increasing the cover price of its English edition from Rs 15 to Rs 20, effective from the September 16 issue. The price of its Hindi edition will remain at Rs 12 per copy. When contacted Ashish Bagga, Executive Director and Publishing Director, India Today Group, confirmed the news saying that the increased input and...

IN August, Mumbai was not only flooded with rain, but also with newsprint. Two new English newspapers - Daily News and Analysis (DNA) and Hindustan Times (HT) hit the stands in a metropolis where The Times of India (TOI) has had a virtual monopoly. Suddenly, piles of newsprint are being dished out to readers, as newspapers compete with quantity as well as quality. For months, DNA kept up an...

NEW DELHI, September 4: India's ranking as the second largest newspaper market in the world also has a flipside to it. In terms of percentage of reach (of newspapers), it lags way behind developed countries. The gap between India and leading countries on this count would depend on which source you would like to go by – World Press Trends 2005 (which draws on the National Readership Survey 2002...

NEW DELHI, August 31: It is not enough to flood a city with newspapers. These actually have to trickle into the homes of a city's teeming millions. And keep trickling till eternity. One is told the first thing to happen after the recent downpour of new newspapers in Mumbai was an advertisement churning. No, this is not about newspapers churning out advertisements, but the churning that has been...

Over the last 10 years, Telugu daily Prajasakthi has been consciously moulding itself into a ‘comprehensive daily offering’. What started as a weekly offering that took on the British and the Nizam in 1942, was reborn as the party organ of the CPI (M) 25 years ago. Today, it is a publication with eight editions. Going forward, the publications aims to consolidate its presence in Andhra Pradesh...