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                Date: 1998-07-15
                 
                 
                Bald frei: N.Y. Times oeffnet sich dem Netz
                
                 
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      Mit dem Entschluss zu einem überfälligen Re(design hat sich 
die New York Times nunmehr entschlossen, ihre bisher strikt 
kosten/pflichtige Netzausgabe einer Befreiung zuzuführen.   
Eine eMarketer/Studie sagt nämlich für diesen Fall rapides 
Wachstum der N.Y.Times/Site/Reichweite für Europa & den Rest 
der Welt voraus. 
 
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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1998 JUL 14 (NB) -- By Bob 
Woods, Newsbytes. As a part of its Web site redesign, The 
New York Times' [NYSE:NYT] Web site, based on the paper that 
publishes "all the news that's fit to print," will make 
almost all of its content free and open to Net surfers 
around the world. 
 
The Times on the Web already has a huge audience. More than 
four million people in the US are registered users of the 
Web site, company officials said. With Internet usage 
overseas climbing at a faster rate than in the US, "we are 
intent on building our franchise worldwide," said Martin 
Nisenholtz, president of The New York Times Electronic Media 
Company. 
 
"We are convinced that our advertiser-supported, no-fee 
registration model, which has worked so well for us here, is 
the best path to accomplish this," Nisenholtz said. 
"Furthermore, almost half of our marketing partners make use 
of the site's unique targeting capabilities. We'd like to 
offer this to advertisers worldwide." 
 
A recent study from eMarketer seems to add credence to the 
Times' way of thinking. eMarketer said that it expects a 
rapid growth rate in Europe, the Asia/Pacific Rim, South 
America and several underdeveloped world regions. In fact, 
eMarketer projects that Americans will be outnumbered by 
non-US users by 2000 (Newsbytes, Jul. 8, 1998). 
 
The Times had charged $35 a month for non-US users of the 
site. 
 
The Times' decision to go free around the world coincides 
with the first full-scale redesign of the site's home page 
since its 1996 debut on the World Wide Web, officials said. 
Gone is the nice-looking but huge graphic -- both file-size 
wise and area wise -- that used to greet visitors to the 
site. Now, headlines and lead paragraphs for many stories 
are on the front page; there is also a left side navigation 
bar that immediately takes Web surfers to the sections they 
want to read. 
 
The new home page features breaking news coverage 
24-hours-a-day, updated every 10 minutes, a real-time 
summary of current happenings in the US financial markets, 
and a search engine described as "more convenient" by Times 
staffers. 
 
Relayed by http://www.newsbytes.com
                   
 
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