Not clear why WSJ.com should become free site
Fortune’s Richard Siklos writes Monday that it’s unclear why The Wall Street Journal would want to make its Web site free despite what new owner News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has intimated. Siklos wrote, “For one thing, more of the site than you might think is already free to the public (and if you visit […]
Economist gives bloggers articles in advance
The Economist is starting to give articles in its magazine to bloggers in advance of publication so that they can start commenting about them and create interest in the content, writes Laura Oliver on the Journalism.Co.UK site. Oliver wrote, “Having identified a group of influential US political bloggers, the media company gives content to these […]
Technology changing business journalism
Technology threatens to replace traditional business news sources with independent Web sites and blogs, making news gathering more democratic but raising questions about the veracity of stories, Myron Kandel, founding editor of CNN Financial News, said Thursday, according to a story by Michael Diamond of the Asbury Park Press. Kandel’s speech capped a Monmouth University […]
Business 2.0 editor lands at TechCrunch
Erick Schonfeld, who had been editor at large at the Time Inc. business glossy Business 2.0 that is being shut down after its October issue, is becoming co-editor of the TechCrunch blog along with founder Michael Arrington, according to Matt Richtel of the New York Times. Richtel wrote, “No shrinking violet himself, Mr. Schonfeld says […]
NYTimes biz section launches blog on TV industry
The New York Times business section launched a new blog called “TV Decoderâ€? (http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com) covering the television industry. TV Decoder is a guide to what’s on, who’s watching and why it matters — it covers the day’s on-screen and behind-the-scenes developments, with insights into Nielsen ratings and the machinations of the TV industry. Brian Stelter, […]
Lamenting the demise of Business 2.0
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch writes an ode to departing business magazine Business 2.0 and discloses that he explored a merger between the magazine and his web site in the past year. Arrington wrote, “IÂ first heard about Business 2.0 in 1998 when I saw a billboard on the 101 freeway near South San Francisco that […]
Why WSJ.com should become a free site
Felix Salmon writes on the Conde Nast Portfolio web site why The Wall Street Journal‘s web site should become free to all readers. Salmon wrote, “For one thing, the only value in keeping WSJ.com a paid site is the immediate subscription revenue that it generates. If you’re owned by a Bancroft family which wants to […]
Dow Jones execs argue to keep WSJ.com a paid site
Sarah Ellison of The Wall Street Journal writes for Wednesday’s paper that executives at Dow Jones & Co. are trying to convince News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch to keep the paper’s Web site a pay site. Murdoch wants to make the site free to anyone Ellison wrote, “But Mr. Zannino and other executives have said […]
Record traffic for Dow Jones web sites
Dow Jones & Co.’s business news web sites reported higher traffic in August, according to data from Omniture Inc. The WSJ Digital Network, which includes the websites WSJ.com, MarketWatch.com, Barrons.com and AllThingsD.com, attracted nearly 17.9 million unique visitors, an increase of 21 percent from the previous year. The sites generated 424.7 million page views in […]
Byrne responds to questions about BusinessWeek.com page views
BusinessWeek.com editor John Byrne responded Friday to Silicon Alley Insider, which earlier this week questioned whether the site was in trouble due to lower page view data reported by a third party. Byrne stated: “I have no idea why the comScore numbers bear no relationship to reality, but here are the facts: In August, traditionally […]
