Interesting article this AM in the NYT about the FT (love all the acronyms), entitled “Financial Times Feels Vindicated by Web Strategy“. The headline is a little bit of a misnomer. The focus of the article is less on the web strategy and more on the fact that the FT.com charges for access on the [...]
by Zack Miller on March 4, 2009
Digital, paid content may be the future of the newspaper industry but it’s proven hard to get there. PaidContent has a piece out on Pearson’s Financial Times unit’s financial performance for 2008. According to PC, after posting flat results in paid subscriber growth in 2007, FT put up a 9% growth in paid subscriptions on [...]
by Zack Miller on November 10, 2008
Most of my writings/reviews focus on sites targeted to North American investors. It’s not that I’m ethnocentric or xenophobic (good SAT prep), it’s just what I’m more familiar with. The FT, or more formally, England’s Financial Times, has the same brand cache that the Wall Street Journal has for US readers. PaidContent.org has a good [...]