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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 1:26pm on Monday, November 16th, 2009 | Survey Says About Half Of All Americans Would Pay For Online News, the New York Times reported on November 15, 2009:
"When asked how much they would pay, Americans averaged just $3 a month, tied with Australia for the lowest figure — and less than half the $7 average for Italians. The other countries included in the study were Germany, France, Spain, Norway and Finland.
“Consumer willingness and intent to pay is related to the availability of a rich amount of free content,” said John Rose, a senior partner and head of Boston Consulting Group's global media practice.
“There is more, better, richer free in the United States than anywhere else.”
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/media/16paywall.html
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:08am on Friday, November 13th, 2009 | Safire Recalled
The Wall Street Journal Reported on November 12, 2009:
"Billed as “a celebration of William Safire,” the service was emceed by Edward Bleier, a former top executive at Warner Bros. At Syracuse University, Bleier and Safire were buddies, along with literary agent Mort Janklow and investment banker Robert Menschel. The men referred to themselves as “the Four Musketeers of Syracuse.” They all remained a tight-knit group throughout their lives.
“Bill refused to accept injustice from any source,” said Max Frankel, executive editor of the Times from 1986 to 1994. Once, Frankel spotted Safire having lunch with Bert Lance, a former Carter White House official. This surprised Frankel since it was Safire’s coverage of Lance’s tenure as the president of a bank in Georgia that, in part, led to his resignation. But Safire showed mercy on the fallen. Frankel (and several others) said that Safire’s mantra was “Kick them when they’re up.”
The full story:
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/11/12/william-safire-remembered/
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 7:45am on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | Online Video Ads Booming, the New York Times reported on November 10, 2009:
"News Web sites are starting to look a lot less like newspapers and a lot more like television.
CNN.com and ESPN.com are featuring video much more prominently on their home pages, often prompting visitors to press play before they begin to read. Even The Wall Street Journal has moved its video player front and center with a twice-a-day live newscast.
The attention to video mirrors changes in how consumers are experiencing news. Major events — be it the presidential election or the death of Michael Jackson — bring a surge in video stream viewings by new users, and each time some of them stick around."
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/business/media/11adco.html
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 8:08am on Monday, November 9th, 2009 | Sorkin at Crossroads of High Finance and News: Right Time, Right Place, or Dangerous Intersection?
New York magazine reported on November 8, 2009:
"For journalists, bad news can be good news. And so, in the wake of the Lehman Brothers collapse last September, as the world’s economy teetered, an all-star roster of business journalists — Roger Lowenstein, Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean — raced to shop book proposals to chronicle the epochal events unfolding on Wall Street and in Washington, D.C.
On the morning of September 23, 2008, Andrew Ross Sorkin, the New York Times’ then-31-year-old star financial reporter, made the rounds to publishers with his agent and his proposal, which he’d pulled together over a weekend. “It was like Paulson’s original tarp proposal,” Sorkin says, referring to the former Treasury secretary. “His was three pages, mine was three pages.”
Sorkin, who started at the Times as an 18-year-old intern, and who founded and edits the Times’ influential DealBook blog and writes a weekly front-page business-section column under the DealBook flag, has cultivated an A-list of Wall Street power players as his sources.
Everyone on Wall Street talks to Sorkin, which makes everyone need to talk to Sorkin. “You never know when you need to go back to the favor bank,” one senior investment banker explained. “Why would a Hank Paulson or a Jamie Dimon or a John Mack pick up the phone and talk to him?” asks one head of communications for a financial institution covered by Sorkin. “They want to hear what everyone else is saying.”
The full story:
http://nymag.com/news/media/61870/
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:51pm on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | Did the NY Times Play Softball with Eliot Spitzer's Flack?
Gawker asked the question on November 4, 2009:
"You'd think that, with blood in the water, the traditional coziness that develops between official flacks and the beat reporters who have to talk to them every day would break down into some kind of last-man-standing slugfest.
But in the Eliot Spitzer case, the opposite happened. The revelations upended the worlds of both reporter and flack alike, and the uncertainty, long hours, and breakneck pace of the scandal actually seemed to throw them together as they worked toward what seems, as one reads through 1,300 pages of e-mail exchanges, like a common goal of getting the news out and behind them."
The full story:http://gawker.com/5396209/the-spitzer-files-how-the-new-york-times-coddled-client-no-9
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:17am on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | Newspaper web sites are not holding on to ad dollars, despite the upturn in online advertising, Stephanie Clifford of the New York Times reported on October 25, 2009:
"Newspaper sites are the patent-leather stilettos of the online world: they get used for special occasions, but other shoes get much more daily wear. The beneficiaries of this behavior are networks and exchanges like Advertising.com from AOL and DoubleClick Ad Exchange from Google, which dominate the buying and selling of extra space."
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/business/media/26adco.html
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Evan Sayet
Los Angeles, CA | Posted at 9:39pm on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | Sadly, the New York Times has become a joke. It is a radical Leftist mouthpiece with an agenda of hurting America as its sole purpose.
Fortunately, it's going down the tubes as its spoiled inheritence millionaire great-great grandchild squanders what his betters have given him.
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:14pm on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 | William Safire died on September 27, 2009 at the age of 79. Robert D. McFadden of the New York Times wrote an obituary:
"William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury of articles on language, died at a hospice in Rockville, Md., on Sunday. He was 79.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Martin Tolchin, a friend of the family.
There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism it was simpler: There was his own unambiguous wit and wisdom on one hand and, on the other, the blubber of fools he called “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.”"
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/us/28safire.html
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:41pm on Thursday, September 24th, 2009 | The New York Times announced on September 15, 2009 that Jonathan Landman, deputy managing editor of the newspaper, has been named culture editor for the newspaper and NYTimes.com, reporting to executive editor Bill Keller.
He succeeds Sam Sifton, who was recently appointed restaurant critic. Mr. Landman was the acting culture editor from 2004 to 2005. In August 2005, he was appointed to oversee the integration of the print and Web newsrooms. He was instrumental in bringing about many of the resulting innovations.
In making the announcement, Mr. Keller said, “Jon brings to the culture department a strenuous intelligence, an inspiring vision, a gift for getting the very best from people and – no small thing as our competitive landscape shifts – a keen appreciation of what culture journalism can be on the Web.”
Mr. Landman, 56, previously had been metropolitan editor of The Times from 1999 until 2003, and editor of the Week in Review section since 1994. He was assistant managing editor for enterprise from 2003 to 2004. Before that, he served as deputy editor of the Washington bureau since 1992; assistant editor in Washington from 1991; assistant metropolitan editor from 1990, and assistant national editor from 1989.
Mr. Landman joined The Times as a copy editor in 1987.
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:18pm on Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | Ben Stein has been fired as a business columnist for the New York Times for being a pitchman for a credit score web site, Gawker reported on August 6, 2009:
"Ben Stein's TV ads for a scuzzy "free" credit product have finally caught up to him: The New York Times has fired Stein as a Sunday business columnist for violating ethics guidelines.
Stein was pilloried online for his endorsement of the bait-and-switch operation, which offers a free credit score but charges an outrageous $30 per month to see the credit report behind the score. As Reuters blogger Felix Salmon pointed out, consumers can get a free online report under federal law."
The full story:
http://gawker.com/5331835/pitchman-ben-stein-gets-economist-ben-stein-fired-at-the-new-york-times
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