• All women, all the time
    Catharine Taylor starts off noting this may be the first all-female panel at any conference and acknowledging that women hate the term Mommy Blogger. What do you think?
  • Getting ready to hear from Mommy bloggers
    Quite the panel! Catharine P. Taylor, Columnist, MediaPost Panelists Carol Cain, Travel Writer, Managing Editor, NYCityMama.com Yvonne DiVita, President, Windsor Media Enterprises, LLC. Liz Gumbinner, Publisher, Editor-in-chief, Cool Mom Picks Sarah Hofstetter, SVP, Emerging Media & Client Strategy, 360i Kate Thorp, CEO, Real Girls Media Will keep you posted
  • The Helen Thomas Problem
    The old question about who's going to pay for all this content? is on a scale steadily sliding downwards. The question, of course, came up during the panel discussion, "The New Socialism: Content Owners' Undoing." Neil Ashe, president of CBS Interactive, calls it The Helen Thomas problem. "Who's going to pay for Helen Thomas? There are only so many seats in the White House Press Room?" Moderator Andrew Hayward said, "I call it the 60 Minutes problem" betraying his television background, and also an unfounded optimism, because, as Ashe quickly pointed out, Helen Thomas doesn't cost anywhere near …
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  • Times putting up pay wall?
    When it comes to the $64,000 questions of whether The Times will have to begin charging for content to survive, Nisenholtz didn't make any big announcement about where the paper was headed. But he acknowledged that "you have to look at it, because a dual-revenue stream is a better business, it just is." And he noted that research is showing that people are beginning to realize that people are realizing they may have to one day starting paying for content. My guess is not a question of if, but when the Times will begin charging for at least some …
  • To Be Free, Or Not To Be
    That was the question â€" if not the answer â€" circulating around OMMA Global this afternoon. While he would not explicitly say what the New York Times might be planning in that ongoing debate, digital chief Martin Nisenholtz at least alluded to consumer research suggesting it could be something less than free. “We can see in the consumer research we’ve done that people are realizing that they might have to pay for this stuff at some time,” Nisenholtz told OMMA attendees. Later, he posed a question to Ben Edwards, publisher of the Economist.com, that he had read …
  • UPDATE: Struggling Newspaper Industry Vs. Online Media
    Martin Nisenholtz, SVP, Digital Operations, The New York Times Co., revealed during a panel the No. 2 and the No. 3 mistakes he believes the newspaper made related to moving content online. No. 1: Shutting down Abuzz. No. 2: We have the largest news achieve on the Web, but rather than exploit it for the new business of search and online media, we held out, he says. Nisenboltz says the paper missed the opportunity in search. No. 3: We should have never shut "New York Today," the brand built to cover the New York market place. …
  • Less Than Zero
    Eric Hippeau the CEO of The Huffington Post says ad nets are driving CPM ever lower. Way down -- as in all the way down. "CPM from ad networks is going down to zero," he says. "I'm not kidding. It's getting very close to zero."
  • Facebook is growing the franchise, NYT's Niesenholz says
    Martin Nisenholz, head of digital operations for the New York Times Company, is talking about the demographic breakout between visitors to the Times Web site and visitors to the paper’s Facebook page, which pushes content out to Facebook fans. On Facebook, about 70 percent of visitors are women, as opposed to the Web site, which skews mostly male. The median age on the Web site is 41; on Facebook, Nisenholtz says, he is seeing more and more visitors in the 18 to 29 demographic. This means, he says, that the Facebook page is growing the franchise.--Catharine Taylor
  • The Economist is online?
    Interesting that Economist.com Publisher Ben Edwards is opining on the role of social media. Isn't The Economist known as being one of the only magazines that's been able to prosper in print form while others trying harder to adapt the digital world have gone by the wayside? The Economist seems to have succeeded by ignoring the convenential wisdom about the death of print by maintaining its focus on the print side while giving scant attention to the Web. Edwards points out that the magazine is focusing online on developing Economist.com as a place where readers can go gather, share …
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