The New York Times said Monday it is scrapping a two-year-old program to charge fees for access to parts of its Web site, including op-ed columnists and archives dating back to 1987.
As of midnight Tuesday, the Times will discontinue its TimesSelect feature, which cost $49.95 per year or $7.95 by the month. Home delivery subscribers […]

Shares of the New York Times Co and McClatchy both of which finished the week at their lowest levels since the Clinton administration.
“Investors are just dumping these stocks because they’re out of favor,” said Edward Atorino, a media analyst at Benchmark in New York.
Shares of Gannett fell 26 cents Friday to close at $44.74, their […]

Classified advertising, once the mainstay of daily newspapers, is rapidly and steadily growing on TV, radio and cable Web sites and on cable digital services, a new report states.
Television station Web sites in all top 50 U.S. markets offer classifieds, as do radio sites in 47 of the top 50 markets and four out of […]

Yahoo! will supply targeted banner advertising to Bebo after the embattled internet group secured its first tie-up with a social network site.
Under the agreement, Yahoo! will also integrate its Yahoo! Answers service, which allows users to have queries answered by an online community, into the Bebo site.
It will also release a new desktop toolbar that […]

Multiply, a social network aimed at 30-somethings, has just announced additional venture funding of $16.6 million
The Boca Raton, Florida-based Multiply struggled after launching in late 2003. It was part of the early pack of social networking companies that sprung up in the wake of path-breaker Friendster. It got some initial buzz, but then MySpace, also […]

Press Release
New Service Launches, Combines the Best of Craigslist and YouTube on Your Phone
IQzone Inc., today announced the national launch of the world’s first service for posting FREE classified ads via mobile phone. Imagine the power of snapping a video or photo of anything you want to sell, trade, promote or give-away, and instantly broadcasting […]

Even after compromises from SoundExchange and the CRB, web radio broadcasters are not optimistic about the future
The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board’s new rates “would bankrupt us,” says Tim Westergren of Pandora, echoing a sentiment reflected widely by the webcaster community. Spurred by SoundExchange’s efforts to raise the cost of broadcasting music on the web to […]