The Newsonomics of Where NewsRight Went Wrong

Renamed NewsRight, it was an industry consortium, and here a truism applies: It’s tougher for a consortium — as much aimed at defense than offense — to innovate and adjust quickly. Or, to put it in vaudevillian terms: Dying is easy — making decisions among 29 newspaper companies can be ...

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David Westin’s Departure Raises New Questions About NewsRight’s Viability

Given the company's lofty ambitions to assert news company might in the content marketplace, the company's achievements are distinctly underwhelming. At its tender age, NewsRight is less a failure, than a non-player. As some publishers do newer deals with Facebook, Flipboard, Pulse and Samsung, ...

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Nine Questions for the Cusp of 2012: NewsRight, Erin Burnett’s Screens, Gail Collins’s Emergence & Smart Cookie Arianna

Getting All-Access right -- pricing, real tablet- and smartphone-appropriate apps, customer ease, giving subscribers cross-title benefits -- is one of the biggest tasks for news and magazine publishers this year.

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Times Extra Aims to Reclaim the Digital Page One

Figure the average newspaper reader spends maybe 10-15 minutes a day with the paper, somewhat more on Sunday. Multiply that out for a month and you get more than four hours of reading per month Figure the average online user spends maybe 10-15 minutes per month on an individual newspaper sites. ...

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