Last month we reported that Reuters and the International Herald Tribune were partnering to revamp the IHT’s financial news offering online and launch a daily co-branded world business report in the newspaper.
The new section of the IHT.com site – renamed Business with Reuters – has gone live today and features news analysis and comment from IHT, Reuters and New York Times business writers and columnists.
Times Online is reporting that the NY Times is in talks about taking business news from Reuters in a deal similar to that which stablemate International Herald Tribune announced yesterday.
Times Online stated:
“The tie-ups are designed to augment both titles’ business coverage, in an attempt to fend off the competitive threat from The Wall Street Journal , which is due to be acquired by News Corporation, the parent company of The Times, this week.”
And later:
“Mr Oreskes [Mike Oreskes, editor-in-chief of the IHT],confirmed that there were “ongoing discussions” about a separate agreement to supply business news to The New York Times.”
Hope redundancies aren’t in the offing as a result…
Just a quick follow up to the story we carried last week about the launch online of New York Times style rag – T magazine.
The online offering is very swish and flash-dominated – plenty of video, very little text – with content divided along peculiarly linear lines; the words, the images, the goods, the remix (whatever this is?), the videos.
Gawker and Media Bistro have already reviewed the site, focusing mainly on the dominance of Natalie Portman over the launch pages. It’s a bit of a statement really, sort of ‘this is the kind of intelligent celeb we’ll favour’
Well, here she is in all her intelligent celeb glory:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMC_b0dsXQc]Beet TV has a nice succinct video piece about the redeveloped and integrated New York Times newsroom – but it did produce it and two other vids for the NYT Company, so you’d expect so.
Regardless, Jim Roberts, editor of Digital News and Jon Landman, deputy managing editor give some some nice little insights into joined-up digital publishing.
NYTimes.com has unveiled its new television blog, TV decoder, which will deliver news of on-screen and behind-the-scenes developments. It also promises analysis of ratings figures and the inner workings of the industry.
Brian Stelter, who joined NYT as media reporter in June, will be its chief contributor following his success with his own blog TVNewser.com, which he founded in 2004 as an 18-year-old student.
Following suit, Times Online’s style blog, Style PS, launched this week, and already boasts plenty of news, gossip and glamorous snapshots from the world of fashion courtesy of The Sunday Times’ Style Magazine team.
As we reported yesterday The New York Times has ended its subscription service, TimesSelect.
But, as Poynter contributor Peter Zollman writes, not everyone at NYTimes.com is up to speed with the decision:
NYT: Left Hand, Meet Right Hand
A brief postscript to my earlier item: Apparently the New York Times hasn’t updated its ad server system yet. They just offered me a “no-risk 14-day free trial” on Times Select, which goes defunct tomorrow. I guess they won’t have to offer pro-rated rebates on those subscriptions.