#New york times wirecutter site moves license
#New york times wirecutter site moves free

To capitalize on the online gambling industry (expected to generate $4 billion in revenue this year), the sports media giant has reportedly held talks with Caesars Entertainment Inc.

#New york times wirecutter site moves license

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | CARA LOMBARDO & BENJAMIN MULLINĮSPN Explores Sports-Betting Deal Worth at Least $3 BillionĪccording to sources, ESPN is seeking to license its brand to major sports-betting companies for at least $3 billion over several years. In other SPAC news, Forbes announced its plan to go public in the late fourth quarter of 2021 or early first quarter of 2022.

The news comes less than a week after the outlet let go fewer than 20 people who worked in the company’s editorial division. As part of the deal, co-founder Shane Smith will give up his voting control but will remain chairman of the board. The company instead is raising $85 million from existing investors with a goal to make Vice profitable. Vice Media announced this week that talks to take the company public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) had ended. Vice Raises $85 Million as SPAC Talks End, Smith Yields Control And there seems to be an audience for subscriptions since only around a quarter of Wirecutter’s 12 million visitors a month “are also subscribers or registered users of the Times,” WSJ notes.įor those that subscribe to Amazon Music, they may soon have access to live audio including music and conversations, according to Axios. Since acquiring Wirecutter for around $30 million in 2016, the Times has reported an increase in revenue for it almost every quarter.

#New york times wirecutter site moves free

The paywall will give readers access to 10 free Wirecutter articles each month before prompting them to subscribe. A standalone subscription will be $5 every four weeks or $40/year. is moving Wirecutter, its consumer product-review site, behind a metered paywall. To diversify its subscription business beyond the flagship news product, New York Times Co. New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | PATIENCE HAGGIN More personnel news: Simone Swink was named senior producer of “Good Morning America” and G/O Media announced three new editors-in-chief for AV Club, Gizmodo, and Jezebel.

Pace has a forward-thinking plan to break down silos in the newsroom, saying, “We have an opportunity to take all of the fantastic journalism that we do across formats and think of ways we can make it more digital-friendly, to make it more social-friendly.” She has been with the AP since 2007 - she joined as a video producer, moved to chief White House correspondent, and eventually transitioned to Washington bureau chief in 2017. Pace is the third consecutive woman to serve as AP executive editor and will succeed Sally Buzbee, who joined the Washington Post in June as executive editor. The AP announced this week that AP Assistant Managing Editor and Washington bureau chief Julie Pace has been named the global news agency’s senior vice president and executive editor, effective immediately. Julie Pace named new Associated Press executive editor In-flight magazines are also suffering, and Airbus might replace Skymall with a digital magazine. It recently launched a paywall to build its digital revenues as print sales decline. USA Today was the worst-performing top-25 newspaper during this period, having lost 303,000, or 62%, of its circulation since March 2020. The data shows that the WSJ, NYT, and USA Today together lost more than 500,000 of print circulation between the first quarter of 2020 and the last reported period. The combined circulation of the newspapers started at 4.7 million in Q1 2019, dropped to 4.2 million by Q1 2020, and fell to 3.4 million in 2021. Top 25 US newspapers by circulation: America’s largest titles have lost 20% of print sales since Covid-19 hitĪccording to an analysis of data from the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM), America’s top 25 largest newspapers have lost 20% of their weekday print circulation since the beginning of the pandemic.

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