You’d think selling subscriptions within iPhone applications would appeal to media companies: It’s a model that promises recurring revenue streams, and it matches up nicely with the way they’ve always done business in print. But surprisingly few have jumped at the opportunity; most news organizations seem to be sticking with traditional one-off apps — some [...]

Here’s the second of our videos from inside the research and development lab at The New York Times Co., where they’re envisioning how news will be consumed in two to ten years. (You can catch up on the series here.) Some of the goodies you’ll notice: a Samsung tablet, an iPhone, a Sony Bravia TV, [...]

Jim Schachter, editor for digital initiatives at The New York Times, isn’t naïve about the business prospects of two blogs the newspaper launched this week for communities in Brooklyn and northeastern New Jersey. In fact, he told me yesterday that the sites will never make money.
“If every single person who lives in Fort [...]

For all the excitement of Times Open, I had a hard time figuring out what it could mean for the newspaper business beyond The New York Times. Few other media companies can match the size and depth of the Times’ development team, putting much of the innovation discussed at the conference perhaps permanently out of [...]