A restructuring is on the way for the revenue side of the Associated Press, with changes coming as soon as next week as part of Jane Seagrave’s recent promotion to chief revenue officer and the creation of new business unit AP Gateway. Among the changes: paidContent has learned that Jeff…

For nearly 40 minutes, top executives from The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) took questions from interviewer Staci D. Kramer, co-editor and EVP of ContentNext Media, and participants in paidContent 2010. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., chairman and publisher; Janet Robinson, president and CEO; and Martin Nisenholtz, SVP-digital operations, knew the…

The big story the past few months on the subject of paid content is the NYTCo’s announcement that it would pursue a metered model for its website. Our Staci D. Kramer put the basic question to top NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) execs during the first afternoon session at paidContent2010, which is…

Amid a flurry of positive digital ad stats included in the NYTCO’s Q4 rebound, Janet Robinson, president and CEO, also ticked off several notable mobile milestones as well during the company’s earnings call. Across its mobile sites and apps, the NYT’s received 75 million mobile pageviews in December alone, while…

Ken Sonenclar is a managing director at DeSilva + Phillips, LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media. This brutal year in M&A is mercifully winding down. The global credit squeeze, deep recession, and shrinking valuations have kept deals in check. But with the economy rebooting and many big…

The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) has thrown down the gauntlet when it comes to ads on mobile apps, specifically its iPhone app. Over the weekend, it has started running roadblock interactive ads on its iPhone app, possibly the first such by a big publisher. See the attached image: that…

Martin Nisenholtz, the SVP of digital operations for The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), is taking his turn as the answer man for the regular Talk to The Times series on NYTImes.com and mobile is getting a fair amount of his attention. My favorite response so far was to…

In addition to delivering news and info via handheld devices, The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) wants to take advantage of attributes CTO Marc Frons says are unique about the mobile space: location awareness and personal networking. Frons, the paper’s CTO for digital operations, is answering questions online this week;…

An interesting short video by Beet.tv with Michael Zimbalist, head of R&D at The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), about the use of mobile and future applications NYT is working on in the mobile arena. Among them, merging the print and mobile…video embedded below:

The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is launching a service today called ShifD that sends your content to the cloud to make it easily accessible from your computer, phone or other devices. The service works like this: let’s say you see a headline for a news story that sounds…

Better late than never: Readers of the New York Times can now get news stories sent to them as a text message. The plans have been in the works since last fall, when the Times mobilized its real estate listings. When I interviewed Michael Zimbalist, the Times’ VP of research…