NYT’s 3Q, 2014: Inside the Digital Acceleration of the Business

Call it acceleration of the digital transition. Those are the words that best describes this morning’s 3Q New York Times financial report and conference call. Take this month of October, the biggest ad revenue month of the year for the Times. Digital advertising will be up about 15% this ...

Read More

Inch by Inch, the New York Times Seeks Daylight Down the Field

Inch by inch, the New York Times’ strategies seem to be working. This is, though, a game of almost inches, as we look at the Times’ full-year and fourth-quarter financials, just released this morning. Overall, there’s a remarkable flatness to the business: Profit of $256M as ...

Read More

The Newsonomics of the New York Times Running in Place

Let’s look at today’s numbers with some peer-group context. Then let’s draw five lessons — in seven-day print trends, the plateauing of all-access subs, the allure of video, the role of events, and the crying need for smart curation — that undergirds this strategy. Three numbers — print ad ...

Read More

The newsonomics of 2013’s second half, from ad depression to day dropping to real estate as destiny

The newest News Corp sets sail. Cast adrift — but with a handy $2.6 billion in cash and no debt, making its peers oh-so-envi0us — the world’s largest newspaper company is in the midst of furious change. At the flagship Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal, it’s tough to find anyone in management ...

Read More