In 2006, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal spun off financial magazine Barron’s Online and required subscribers to pay more if they wanted to keep reading Barron’s. This week, angry customers who sued learned they are out of luck after a New York court rejected their breach of contract claim.

Before Tim Armstrong launched Patch, jumped from Google to AOL, bought it from his own investment group and expanded it across the nation, he ignored early advice suggesting that the hyperlocal’s one-journalist-per-town model would not work.

The number of daily unique browsers visiting The Guardian’s website year on year surged by 65 per cent in February to 4m.

The majority of newspapers have reacted to slowing print sales by combining print and digital operations, but the longest-running daily newspaper in Utah has done just the opposite, according to the Financial Times.

Today, national French daily newspaper Le Monde launched a new format for its website LeMonde.fr .

The majority of newspapers have reacted to slowing print sales by combining print and digital operations, but the longest-running daily newspaper in Utah has done just the opposite, according to the Financial Times.