FT Group profit rose 21 percent to £84 million on 11 percent better revenue of £374 million in the first half of the year, supposedly on digital and subscription growth.…

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FT.com has attracted 450,000 registered users since unveiling its new, 30-free-articles model in October - but the number of paying subscribers has remained largely “static” at “about 100,000”. During a…

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-- Ignite: Money-Media, the online news source for the money management industry which FT publisher Pearson (NYSE: PSO) acquired in January, has launched a European version of its Ignites fund…

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At three million, Economist.com got 39 percent more unique users in a year that saw eight percent higher revenue. Results for the year to March 2008 showed 199 million page…

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FT.com is promoting online advertising director Rob Grimshaw to managing director, effectively replacing outgoing managing editor and publisher Ien Cheng. Grimshaw had been involved in developing the new, third-way access…

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FT.com managing editor and publisher Ien Cheng, the Financial Times’ most senior digital executive, is quitting the company to take up the post of director of product management for advertising…

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FT owner Pearson (NYSE: PSO) is still holding its strategy steady despite consolidation around it in the financial news market. Challenged by one holder to deliver a “step change” in…

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Like we predicted on ContentSutra, India’s media firm Network 18 is all set to launch a financial daily in partnership with Financial Times, and the new title is expected to…

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Financial Times is promoting chief information officer Yasmin Jetha to chief operating officer. It’s not the only sign of an increasing technology influence at the highest level - Jetha is…

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The Economist Group CEO Helen Alexander is leaving the publisher after 23 years to become an adviser to private equity house Bain Capital. Her replacement, from July 15, will be…

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FT.com will tomorrow begin giving free subscriptions to college students via Facebook, we can reveal. The news site will launch an app that gives users a PIN code which can…

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Picking up from yesterday’s Pearson earnings, the company said its Penguin book publisher would follow the decision by Bertelsmann’s Random House last week to drop DRM from its audio books.…

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FT added 13 percent more digital subscribers in 2007, taking it up to 101,000. In the year it remodeled its subs strategy to let out more free stories but keep…

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Certainly among the costliest social networking services to launch till date: The Financial Times is launching a £1,700-a-year (about $3,350) membership for one of three new networking sites...the service, called…

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File under “You Couldn’t Make It Up”. The Economist magazine, which is online at economist.com, has failed in its bid to win control of the theeconomist.com domain, because its owner…

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Pearson (NYSE: PSO) has confirmed the sale of its 50 percent stake in FT Deutschland to Hamburg-based magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, which already owned the other half. The deal…

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The number of people registering with FT.com ”went from 200 to 400 a week up to between 15,000 and 17,000 a week” since introducing a new access model in November,…

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- Newsquest: The UK’s number-two regional news publisher is buying in national news video from the Press Association multimedia wire. The PA will contribute around 25 multimedia packages each week…

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FT publisher Pearson (NYSE: PSO) has acquired Money-Media, an online news source for the money management industry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although the announcement states that NYC-based…

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Despite a brave R&D project that ended without any concrete output, The Economist may yet start a “social network” for its readers. The magazine’s £100,000 Project Red Stripe ended in…

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FT.com may have decided to drop part of its web pay wall in October - but it’s now erecting a new one right through the Factiva aggregator. While Factiva customers…

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The Financial Times needs all the luck and gumption it can get, to compete with Wall Street Journal under News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) A Telegraph story lays out the odds,…

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Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) will follow up its partnership to produce a branded online/print business news section for the International Herald Tribune (NYSE: TRB) with a contract to supply FT.com with…

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Economist Group‘s online advertising revenue grew 15 percent year-on-year, interim results for the year to September 30 show. That’s not as fast as it’s growing at some other publishers out…

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The Economist’s 10-month web R&D project may have ended without having brought any output to market, but the publisher is now sifting through the leftover scraps for what could be…

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