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Visualizing NYT Co. Paywall Math, Part 2

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:12:58 +0000

Here’s the flip side to that New York Times Co. paywall data from yesterday. It’s the share of paid circulation revenue to total revenue for the two Times Co. newspaper groups dominated by the Times and the Globe. That is all.

Visualizing NYT Co. Paywall Math

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:45:04 +0000

Wonder why the New York Times Co. is working so hard to monetize its web traffic? Have a look at this chart, updated with data from the Times Co.’s fourth quarter earnings. I’ve plotted gains and losses on Times revenue streams, in nominal dollars, indexed to a peak of 1. It’s an ugly picture, where ad revenues, which make up the bulk of all the cash flowing in, are getting hammered by a crappy economy. That’s where the imperative of driving non-ad revenue comes from. You can see that even though higher prices for paper copies and paid online access stop the bleeding, they haven’t been enough to reverse it yet.

Whopper of the Day

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:26:27 +0000

Here’s a regular ol’ Rick Perry supporter in South Carolina, explaining to a Times reporter why she’s wild about Rick Perry. It’s not just the fact that there’s Jesus dripping from everything the guy says. He also has his wife who knows her place: “And his wife is a great asset. She’s submissive to him, as she should be.”

Shorter, But Not Much Better…

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:36:59 +0000

Deval Patrick’s second Times appearance in a month is shorter than his first (an A1 job in which the nation’s paper of record wondered how the F things on Beacon Hill could’ve gone so bad so quickly, and in which the governor allowed himself to be quoted as labeling Sal DiMasi as “part of what we ran against” on the morning of this hug-tastic press conference), but it’s got to be no easier to swallow.

The paper notes, quickly and glibly enough, that the state’s universal health care law is rapidly flying off the budgetary rails. The Times rode shotgun during the state’s first car wreck, and from the looks of things, it appears to be preparing for the eventuality of an encore.

The Times: Worse Than Bush

admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:40:01 +0000

Here are some staggeringly frightening numbers about you, America, via Portfolio.com‘s Jeff Bercovici: The nation’s preeminent newspaper, the New York Times, has a lower approval rating than the president. Even with the awful war, stagflation, spying and the rest of it.

Just 24% of respondents to a recent Rasmussen study expressed a favorable opinion of the paper, compared with 44% unfavorable, and 31% “not sure.”

Not sure? Why not? That’s logical. The paper might be a collective of people with notebooks chasing down quotes and calling sources and writing down what they hear. Or Bill Keller might run around his office all day in Muslim garb. Not sure.

And you know, Vladimir Putin doesn’t look like such a horrible tyrant. If it’s Putin’s word against the Times‘s, how can we ever know for sure???

Two Things

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:32:59 +0000

Two observations: One day later, the Times‘s John McCain maybe straight-talked his way into my pants story is the most blogged item on the paper’s website.

And for all the endless kvetching about the whole thing, this is the paper’s most emailed story right now. Sexy Johnny hasn’t even cracked the top ten.