Paywall pioneer Press+ merges with Piano Media September 8, 2014 By Ryan Chittum A European investment fund purchases the company for an undisclosed sum
Facebook’s war on clickbait unlikely to do much good August 28, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Publishers who cheer the move should know that Zuckerberg & Co. can turn off the traffic spigot whenever it suits them
The New York Times‘ paywall has plenty of room to grow August 27, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Prediction to the contrary from Re/code misses several key factors
Gannett cribs from Advance Publications playbook for struggling newspapers August 18, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Staff compete for fewer jobs; ‘readers become the assignment editor’
The NYT’s new paywall products flounder July 29, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Early problems for the paper’s new apps
How Forbes got to $475 million July 21, 2014 By Ryan Chittum That’s what a Hong Kong investor has agreed to pay for a firm that two years ago had trouble paying its rent
A $52 million loss, but a good year for The Guardian July 9, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Digital revenue booms while print stabilizes and its trust fund surges
A reply to Clay Shirky June 19, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Who doesn’t distinguish between investing in journalism as opposed to print
Market power and the media baron June 9, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The anti-competitive practices of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos
The New York Times can’t abandon print–yet June 6, 2014 By Ryan Chittum It would immediately swing to a big loss
Reader revenue and the great newspaper ad bubble May 28, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Four decades of artificially high advertising goes pop
The New York Times‘ digital limbo May 22, 2014 By Nikki Usher An author says the paper’s digital efforts are stuck in 2010
Newspapers continue to sink (UPDATED) April 22, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Ad declines far outweigh subscription gains
USA Today‘s third-rate clickbait April 15, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Trolling for pageviews à la Business Insider, but without the panache
Michael Wolff’s digital media bloopers (UPDATED) April 11, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The Newser founder trolls (other) digital-news companies
Audit Notes: Star-Ledger sinks, Strib swims, news revenue quantified April 3, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Advance Publications and the Newhouses slash another already-gutted newsroom
Native ads: Advertorial for the digital age April 3, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Talking Points Memo, Andrew Sullivan, and advertising as a necessary evil
Straw men fail to advance future-of-news debate, as usual March 31, 2014 By Ryan Chittum A response to Ben Thompson on the Web’s supposed golden age of journalism
Audit Notes: Sex bias and arbitration, NYT Now, ageism in the Valley March 31, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The Times on corporate culture questions raised by a lawsuit against Sterling Jewelers
Audit Notes: Vice talks IPO, Wall Street suicides, Slate membership March 25, 2014 By Ryan Chittum CEO floats a Twitter-like valuation
The NYT preps its paywall part deux March 7, 2014 By Ryan Chittum A few details emerge on the cheaper NYT Now, plus a high-end subscription
The Guardian‘s digital boom March 5, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Revenue rises sharply online for a second-straight year
Marc Andreessen’s news-business fairy tale March 5, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The news industry is not in for exponential growth
Audit Notes: Video ads, NPR on the Hamster Wheel, ProPublica’s data store March 4, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Adweek on TV versus online video
Must-reads of the week February 28, 2014 By The Editors "It’s going to be very, very cool. Unless it ends up being very, very bad"