Relevant to yesterday’s post about the NYTimes Company’s International Herald Tribune outsourcing part of its business coverage to Reuters, Times Online in London says talks are underway for a deal with Mothership Times as well. Clearly, this would be a way for both to compete with the soon-to-be-invigorated Wall Street Journal.
Or just to lay off some business reporters?
[...] that never would have been sufficiently valuable to attract paid subscriptions. The NYT might be credited with recognizing that aggregated news from others will be critical to competing on the Internet. On [...]
Interesting, also, that IHT has hooked up with independent online magazine Asia Sentinel (www.asiasentinel.com) as way to get in-depth news coverage from Asia.
See the story here: http://www.marketing-interactive.com/news/3956
I’m following your postings with interest. You might want to check out http://www.ihtreaders.blogspot.com for more of an insider’s take on what is going on here with the IHT and Reuters.