Tag Archives: Murdoch

Roundup of commentary on Times paywall

By Julie Starr | Published: July 21, 2010
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 [...]
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What Emily said, Times to charge, Indy sold

By Julie Starr | Published: 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 [...]
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Links: the Murdochs, Jarvis, news junkie apps

By Julie Starr | Published: 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 [...]
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Links: data.govt, temporariness, paywall wait

By Julie Starr | Published: 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 [...]
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Wrap: News Corp, Journalism Online, Kindle

By Julie Starr | Published: 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 [...]
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