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Three questions for the New York Times Co — The New York Times Company's latest earnings, announced today, reiterated its story of long-term print decline, unstable advertising and a nucleus of hope based on digital subscriber growth. — On a call with investors, executives repeated …
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NY Times Co. Explains Its ‘Shockingly Weak’ Ad Results — For years, The New York Times Co. has been fighting a losing battle to replace its dwindling print advertising revenues with digital ones. So when an analyst singles out the results from a quarter as “shockingly weak,” you know that's pretty bad.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
New York Times company stock closes down 22% after disappointing earnings report
New York Times company stock closes down 22% after disappointing earnings report
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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Co. Falls After Reporting Surprise Loss
New York Times Co. Falls After Reporting Surprise Loss
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Sulzberger Expresses Support for Mark Thompson, Incoming Chief Executive
Sulzberger Expresses Support for Mark Thompson, Incoming Chief Executive
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Sulzberger to staff: We'll cover BBC scandal story ‘with objectivity and rigor’
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Digital subscriptions up 11 percent at New York Times company, but revenue slips
Digital subscriptions up 11 percent at New York Times company, but revenue slips
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Readers Pay More for New York Times, Advertisers Pay Less
Readers Pay More for New York Times, Advertisers Pay Less
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James Chapman / Daily Mail:
BBC tried to ‘gag’ minister over Savile scandal hours before he appeared on Question Time
BBC tried to ‘gag’ minister over Savile scandal hours before he appeared on Question Time
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Apple's Online Radio Service to Challenge Pandora in 2013 — Apple's Online Radio Said to Challenge Pandora — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and major music labels have intensified negotiations to start an advertising-supported Internet radio service by early next year, according to people with knowledge of the talks.
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Apple's proposed Web radio service is no certainty — Apple's financial terms for a Internet radio service to labels is getting mixed reviews at some of the labels, insiders tell CNET — Apple is working hard to convince the major record companies to buy into its plan for a Web radio service …
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Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
China Blocks Web Access to Times After Article — HONG KONG — The Chinese government swiftly blocked access early Friday morning to the Chinese-language Web site of The New York Times from computers in mainland China and gradually halted most access to the English-language site …
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Marissa Mayer Makes First Yahoo Acquisition: Stamped — Yahoo has acquired the company behind one-year-old mobile recommendations app Stamped, its first since ex-Google exec Marissa Mayer became CEO of the company in July, Mashable has learned. — The acquisition was purely for talent …
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Netflix must ponder its endgame strategy — Was it really only 15 months ago when everyone loved Netflix? The stock had risen nearly eightfold during a two-year rally, CEO Reed Hastings was hailed as a game changer and was asked for the secrets of his success, and Netflix was on track …
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Netflix Hits 30 Million Members After Q3 Subscriber Growth “Forecasting Error”
Netflix Hits 30 Million Members After Q3 Subscriber Growth “Forecasting Error”
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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Gore's struggling Current TV on the block — Current TV, the ratings-challenged cable network started by former Vice President Al Gore, has put itself up for sale, The Post has learned. — “Current has been approached many times by media companies interested in acquiring our company,” CEO Joel Hyatt told The Post.
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More interactive Tweets, in more than 2000 ways — Earlier this summer, we introduced the ability to expand Tweets to see content previews, photos and videos right within a Tweet. At that time, we were working with a small group of partners. Today there are more than 2,000 ways to bring …
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Radiolab apologizes for treating source rudely but defends podcast — A cohost of the public-radio show Radiolab says he “pushed too hard” in an interview, but the station that produces the show has pushed back against accusations that a segment it released as a podcast was unfair.
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Amazon's crummy earnings report sends shares sliding after hours on steep losses — Amazon told a now-familiar story in its third-quarter earnings report this afternoon: High sales, low profits — but this time profits were even lower than analysts had expected. Shares were down in after-hours trading.
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Unpolitic.me Hides Political Posts On Facebook and Twitter — I know Facebook and Twitter forever changed the political process and promise to usher in a new era of global citizenship, but, sometimes I just need a mind-numbing escape of drunken Vegas photos and cat memes.
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