The Times paywall has been the subject of plenty of speculation and comment. I won’t weigh in on what, how, why and how well they’re doing but here’s a roundup of some of the commentary I’ve read recently: The Guardian said the Times website had lost almost 90% of its readers since the paywall kicked [...]
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Times and Sunday Times announced they will start charging for online content from June at a price of one pound a day or two pounds a week. Good news for those of us sitting comfortably on the sidelines waiting to see how Murdoch’s paywalls are going to work. Great news I imagine for competitors [...]
Sunday, November 22, 2009
A melange of links from the past week or so. News Corp says it will block Google Jonathan Miller, chief digital officer of News Corp, said the company was planning to block Google from indexing news stories from its multiple news outlets, the Telegraph reports. When asked how long it would be before Mr Murdoch [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
Data.govt.nz launches Great to see that the government, via the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has launched data.govt.nz, a website that aims to pull together all manner of non-personal government data in formats suitable for developers to work with. This is what the people at Open.nz.org were pushing for and it looks like the site is [...]
Sunday, August 23, 2009
News Corp look for consortium partners on paid content From LA Times: News Corp. executives have been meeting in recent weeks with publishers about forming a consortium that would charge for news distributed online and on portable devices — and potentially stem the rising tide of red ink. Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Miller has positioned [...]
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Phew, what a week. Rupert Murdoch gives plenty of notice that he plans to introduce paywalls on all his news websites (prompting speculation that he’s signalling to fellow newspaper owners to hurry up with their own paywall plans): NEWS Corporation chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch has announced the company will charge readers to access [...]
Saturday, May 16, 2009
A wrap of some of the news companies talking about charging for online content now or in the future.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Rupert Murdoch says the part-paywall will remain at the WSJ. "The really specialized (material) giving the greatest insights, that will still be a subscription service," he said at Davos.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
For those who like a bit of sport, Jack Shafer over at Slate is looking for some help spotting signs of the Murdochification of the Wall Street Journal.
Evolving Links
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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