Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times’ website for global audience, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) - but, in reality, the two are still an ocean apart.

About.com is in free fall. The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) revealed yesterday that its network of information sites suffered a 67% drop in profits and that revenues had fallen by a quarter.

Late last year, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) relaunched its tech blog to add more reporters and more video—in hopes of pulling in more ad revenue. That followed an even larger buildup of its business and finance blog, Deal Book. Now, the company will be giving the same treatment…

Higher online circulation was a small bright spot in an otherwise gloomy earnings report for the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), which is still looking for a CEO who can implement a comprehensive digital strategy.

The championship of the online newspaper world changed hands the other day. The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) (as measured by comScore (NSDQ: SCOR), currently the most fashionable collector of digital evidence extant) had 44.8m unique visitors in December, while our own dear Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) had 45.3m. Manhattan’s…

For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using…

Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Post for business. This is not the first non-U.S. edition of the news site, but it is the first to produce the content in partnership with an…

The furor over controversial anti-piracy legislation reached a climax on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers began disavowing the Stop Online Piracy Act and opponents claimed victory. The activity coincided with street protests and popular websites blocking out parts or all or their homepages.

In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It’s the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription.

(This version corrects an error in the percentage for the price increase of the FT) Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a paywall of sorts and closely monitoring what everyone else is doing. In almost every news company, execs are morosely watching advertising projections and finding numbers that…

The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) increased the price of its weekday print edition by $0.50 this week, and home delivery subscribers will pay an additional $0.30 to $0.60 per week. With higher prices come a small new perk for home delivery subscribers to the NYT, Boston Globe and International…

Three years after the Associated Press started the News Registry to help publishers track their content online—and make money from reuse—comes NewsRight, the startup designed to make that work actually pay off.

This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. Not too long ago, TV Everywhere was a bold concept being evangelized by Time Warner…

My first impulse when I got an e-mail offering a discounted subscription if I’d rethink my decision to cancel home delivery of the New York Times was someone on the paper’s end misunderstood a holiday stop order. Then the second one came and others started getting it too.

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) reached an agreement to sell its Regional Media Group, which consists of 16 newspapers and some other print publications and related businesses, to Halifax Media Holdings for $143 million in cash.

Claiming it was a name “that, frankly, we never really loved,” Lisa Belkin—the former editor of New York Times (NYSE: NYT) parenting blog “Motherlode,” and the new editor of the Huffington Post’s similarly named (and NYT-contested) parenting blog “Parentlode”—announced that the Huffington Post will change Parentlode’s name to one decided…

The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) today continued its recent penchant for making the news as well as reporting it. New details are emerging about a handsome pay package the company will give outgoing CEO Janet Robinson.

One of the consequences of the growth of social media has been the rise of that category of digital, interactive advertising referred to as social ads. Today, one of the companies working in this area, appssavvy, has announced that it has picked up $7.1 million in funding, with AOL’s AOL…

The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is selling its 15 regional newspapers to the Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Media Group, according to reports and an accidentally published page on the Halifax Media website. The news comes days after NYT CEO Janet Robinson stepped down. Update: The NYT confirmed it is…