The secret to digital success at The Economist
Roy Greenslade of The Guardian in London takes a look at The Economist and its success when interviewing CEO Andrew Rashbass. Greenslade writes, “So in this interview, his first for more than four years, he says he wants to tell a commercial story, not an editorial one. In fact, it turns out to be more […]
The importance of Twitter in disseminating business news
Heidi Moore, the New York bureau chief of American Public Media’s “Marketplace” who covers Wall Street, writes about using Twitter as a tool to improve business coverage. Moore writes, “Twitter is a great underminer of the rigid ivory-tower voice-of-God news judgment that has fed a lot of arrogance into journalists and journalism, and which has […]
FT launches app for India
The Financial Times launched Friday a new FT web app for the Indian market, available directly through a web browser at app.ft.com/india, for the Apple iPad and iPhone. Web app users can access all stories on the home page for free, exclusively in India. The FT India app features tailored Financial Times content covering Indian […]
FT’s web application hits 1 million users
The Financial Times has registered a digital milestone with the FT web application seeing more than 1 million users since its launch in June. Available on the iPhone and iPad by visiting app.ft.com directly from the device’s web browser, almost half of its users have downloaded a shortcut to their iPad or iPhone home screen, […]
CNNMoney launches Android application
CNNMoney.com launched a new application for Android phones on Tuesday. The app provides users with business, finance and tech news. Users can also track the latest key market indexes, commodities and bond rates, and personalize a watch list to keep up with stock performance. CNNMoney generates an average of 4 million monthly unique visitors to across […]
FT reaches 250,000 digital subscribers
The number of paying digital subscribers to the Financial Times has broken the quarter of a million mark, an increase of more than 30 percent in the past year. Of these, 100,000 are corporate subscriptions coming from more than 2,000 different licenses. A growing number of businesses, including professional services and communications firms, as well […]
WSJ Live now available through more distribution channels
The WSJ Live, the business newspaper’s online video channel, is now available in via Apple TV, Google TV and Roku, adding significant reach across a variety of platforms for live and on-demand programming from The Wall Street Journal Digital Network. On-demand video from WSJ Live is also now available on Daily Motion. Previously, the company […]
WSJ.com now bunching articles based on what they think you’d like to read
Michael Arrington of Uncrunched writes about how The Wall Street Journal‘s website is now automatically sorting articles based on what they think you’ll like to read, using technology from a company called Gravity. Arrington writes, “Earlier this year they began talks with the WSJ and others, and they contacted me about adding the feature to […]
How business journalists can use — and should use — social media
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Business journalists needs to use social media to find stories and sources, accordig to a group of reporters and editors who spoke Friday in New York. “There [are] four aspects to social media when using it professionally,” said Tiffany Black, a former producer with Inc.com. “One is to listen. Two is to […]
WSJ Social rethinks distribution strategy
Megan Garber of the Nieman Journalism Lab looks at the strategy behind The Wall Street Journal‘s new WSJ Social application available on Facebook. Garber writes, “With WSJ Social, the Journal is purposely ‘navigating the content within the app around people,’ Baratz told me, and making ‘every user an editor’; the app, in large part, she […]
