Gannett Will Cash In on the Paywall Trend
Those in range of Gannett's community newspapers will be sad to learn the publisher will soon erect a paywall around the websites of its 80 small-town titles, while keeping USA Today free online.
Meg Whitman has yet to prove herself, as Hewlett-Packard's Q1 earnings missed expectations, reporting first quarter net revenue of $30.0 billion, down 7% from the prior-year period.
Those in range of Gannett's community newspapers will be sad to learn the publisher will soon erect a paywall around the websites of its 80 small-town titles, while keeping USA Today free online.
Corporations that do business overseas—which frequently involves gifts, baksheesh, and other kinds of behind-the-scenes favors—are wondering just how strictly anti-bribery rules will be enforced.
On February 16 Alice Lee launched "Dear Instagram," a site she designed to serve as a pitch-slash-resume-slash-love letter for the new age. In about four days, the site went viral.
Yes, 13,000 points is an arbitrary threshold, but the fact this morning that the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached that mark for the first time since May 2008 lets Obama paint a rosier economic picture just in time for reelection, doesn't it?
On May 2, the only privately-owned copy of The Scream will go on sale, where it's expected to fetch more than $80 million.
"While little data on the phenomenon exists, venture capitalists say they are funding more chief executives under age 21 than ever before," reports Reuters' Sarah McBride.
If you think you have Greece fatigue, imagine how the financial kingpins of Europe feel after 13 hours of talks to approve a new bailout deal for the trouble nation — one that isn't likely to end the hand-wringing anytime soon.
Jonathan Gold, who's been poached by the Los Angeles Times, may have been the L.A. Weekly's most valuable byline not just because of his Pulitzer Prize, but because he makes such a point of reviewing the tiny ethnic restaurants that comprise Los Angeles's vast culinary landscape.
Jeffrey Kluger on John Glenn, Bill Keller on WikiLeaks, Drew Western on attack ads, The Washington Post on transparency, W. James Antle on Pat Buchanan.
The ProPublica editor explains two of his media obsessions: Sports and women's fashion.
Forget a new paint job or replacing the carpeting: If your newsroom needs some freshening up, just have Rupert Murdoch stop by for a visit.
In the wake of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid's death Thursday, his book will be released a month early than previously planned.
He's either a hero or a buffoon, but John Kinnucan, a tech analyst with Broadband Research, did nearly everything he could to goad the FBI until they came and got him.
Italian police have confiscated around $6 trillion of counterfeit U.S. Treasury Bonds on Friday, a number equal to almost half of the entire U.S. debt.
Luckily, Priya Sinh was able to contact her 70 guests via Facebook that she wouldn't make to her 18th birthday, but 4,000 other stranded Air Australia passengers and 300 people who work at the now-grounded airline are still trying to figure things out.
Pat Buchanan hasn't appeared on MSNBC since he started promoting his controversial book Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? and now Buchanan says he's officially done with the liberal network, citing an "incessant clamor from the left" for what he calls censorship.
Bobby Ghosh on Anthony Shadid, Gish Jen on Jeremy Lin, Kimberley Strassel on Oregon's Ron Wyden, Bloomberg View on the next World Bank head, and Charles Krauthammer on Obama and contraception.
Our pets are officially eating better than we are, according to a New York Times story headlined "Boeuf Bourguignon Again?" (Subtitle: Pet Foods Go Gourmet).
The investigation into corporate malfeasance and fraud at Japan’s troubled optical equipment maker Olympus, took a new turn on Thursday with the arrest of three former Olympus officials and four others on charges of violating financial filing regulations.
Mitt Romney slams China, Fareed Zakaria talks "zones of immunity," and The New York Times edit board gives a bipartisan round of applause.
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