Steve Outing wrote a useful post about the recent Aspen Institute conference, “Of the Press: Models for Preserving American Journalism.” He said discussions about business models were more realistic than he’d expected. “My fears were largely abated. I can’t predict with any certainty that the newspaper industry will deploy some of the best ideas to [...]
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 online [...]
Saturday, May 16, 2009
A wrap of some of the news companies talking about charging for online content now or in the future.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Steve Yelvington poses eight points for newspaper owners to consider when thinking about erecting a paywall (thanks to @shanerichmond for the link).
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Adrian Monck's voice is one I like because he's so, well, pragmatic. Anyway, he's rejecting quite a lot of Clay Shirky's post about the future of news which I referred to in a post earlier this week.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
The Wall Street Journal is one of the few newspapers to keep some of its content behind a paywall online (meaning you have to subscribe to read some of the stories). This policy bucks the trend of recent years to offer everything free online for fear that your readers will just go elsewhere if you don't. A fair policy given that daily news outlets have relatively few points of difference from one another and there's no scarcity of news online.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Jimmy Guterman, editorial director of O'Reilly's Radar group, has bid farewell to his New York Times subscription. I think he articulates well what so many are thinking: "It was hard to say no to the Times. The quality was high, the thump of the paper on the sidewalk was a pleasant sound to hear first thing in the morning, I liked the serendipity of walking through a print section, and I felt obligated to pay for the paper at a time when print subscribers were becoming an endangered species.
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.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
There was me thinking the WSJ was going to bring its whole site out from behind the paywall. But no, so far only opinion, editorials, commentary and video. And they're still running a discount campaign enticing new subscribers.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
The 'Are newspapers cutting their own throats by not charging for their product online?' debate grinds on. Inside most media companies the battle lines are drawn: on one side are those in favour of charging for premium services - 'we're mad to give away this great content we've made' - and on the other are those against - 'if we charge, our audience will go somewhere else'.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
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