The New York Times and GateHouse Media have settled their legal case out of court.
GateHouse Media had raised the action against the Times for links found on Boston.com to its local website network.
“Loyal readers of the New York Times were left spluttering into their coffee cups yesterday morning when their beloved paper was encroached upon by a controversial innovation: front-page advertising,” the Guardian’s Ed Pilkington reports.
Dan Kennedy on how the dispute over online linking between New York Times and GateHouse Media could determine online journalism’s future. “What makes this battle especially dangerous is that the Times and GateHouse are struggling not just for advantage, but for their very survival.”
Times’ reporter Nicholas Kristof used Twitter and the NYTimes blog to ask Chinese residents whether they could access the New York Times website.
According to a Times report, China has blocked internet access to the paper’s site.
Liu Jianchao, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, has said that the Chinese government had a right to censor web sites that violated the country’s laws, reports the New York Times.
After cable news election success for the channel, CNN is now looking to cater for those newspapers who find wire services too expensive. The New York Times reports that editors from about 30 papers will visit Atlanta to hear about CNN’s plans to broaden its service.
Founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, visited The Times for a discussion with editors and members of the paper’s editorial board for a discussion about journalism in the digital age: here’s the transcript. Newmark still reads the print edition of the New York Times over coffee each day.
The New York Times is celebrating the size of its Facebook group. “An internal memo from the NY Times president Scott Heekin-Canedy touted the newspaper’s ‘successful’ advertising campaign on Facebook,” following the US election, reports the NiemanJournalismLab. The number of fans of the NYTimes Facebok page went up from 49,000 to 164,000.
Pranksters gave out a fake New York Times in NYC and LA this week, with the headline ‘Iraq War Ends’.
A near ten per cent drop in print advertising revenue has caused the New York Times Co to register a loss in the first quarter – further highlighting the continued sharp decline of the US print newspaper industry.
The Times lost $350,000, or less than 1 cent per share, after recording a profit of $23.9m, or 17 cents per share, during the same period a year earlier – the FT said.
The company attributed the losses to a slowing economy compounding the overall struggle the newspaper industry is having as readers and advertisers migrate to the internet.