Category Archives: Business Models

Link wrap: Hari’s apology, Hearst turns to html 5, Boston Globe’s new paywall site

By Julie Starr | Published: September 18, 2011
A few links from the past week or so. The Guardian Launches a New US Homepage The Guardian revealed a new url for the US – guardiannews.com – marking the start of its digital operation in New York. The new venture – headed up by Janine Gibson, formerly editor of guardian.co.uk – will create a [...]
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A simple test for whether people will pay for news

By Julie Starr | Published: September 8, 2011
So you’re a daily newspaper guy and you think people have always paid for news. Fair enough. Some of your readers probably do pay for news. But if you want to charge for your news online you’re going to need to know roughly how many people are willing to pay for it so you can [...]
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Tablet owners ‘read newspapers, magazines less often’

By Julie Starr | Published: July 11, 2011
A couple of interesting observations in this June 30 post from Jeff Sonderman on Poynter. He cites Forrester Research (via TechZone360) showing that tablet owners read newspapers less often than they did before owning a tablet. Almost one-third (32 percent) of tablet owners say they read printed newspapers less often, according to the market research [...]
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Link wrap: handwritten news, Guardian grows US, Times #s, data needs stories

By Julie Starr | Published: March 30, 2011
In Ishinomaki, news comes old-fashioned way: Via paper Washington Post |Andrew Higgins Unable to operate its 20th-century printing press — never mind its computers, Web site or 3G mobile phones — the city’s only newspaper, the Ishinomaki Hibi Shinbun, wrote its articles by hand with black felt-tip pens on big sheets of white paper. “People who [...]
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Links: profit by giving away, The Week grows & Facebook is ‘a news org’

By Julie Starr | Published: March 20, 2011
A few catch-up reads sitting in my Instapaper feed. How French Site OWNI Profits by Giving Away Its Content MEDIASHIFT | Mark Glaser A French site,OWNI.fr, has found an unusual business model for a site with no ads and no subscriptions — that’s also profitable. How do they do it? Their main business is doing [...]
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