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In case you missed it… links

By Julie Starr | Published: December 7, 2011
Australia’s Financial Review slashes paywall prices The new regime at Fairfax Media’s Financial Review Group will cut online subscriptions prices by 40% from next Monday for The Australian Financial Review, allow print subscribers full access to online content for free and launch an iPad app early in the new year as part of a major overhaul of [...]
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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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Link wrap: Paywall for The Australian, Pulitzer prizes, new editor for NY Times, FT favours web apps

By Julie Starr | Published: June 8, 2011
A handful of news links from the past few days. Murdoch to hide The Australian behind paywall NZ HERALD | AP Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd said it would start charging for online access to national broadsheet The Australian from October, although some content will remain free. The newspaper’s paywall will be modelled on the media [...]
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Who says what about the NY Times paywall

By Julie Starr | Published: March 18, 2011
A grab bag of who’s saying what about the NY Times paywall, details of which were announced in a post by New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr on March 17: Today marks a significant transition for The New York Times as we introduce digital subscriptions. It’s an important step that we hope you [...]
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Links: Bye bye Alesia, hello Ushi.cn

By Julie Starr | Published: October 28, 2010
A few more links today before I shut down a few more browser tabs: News Corp gives up on digital aggregator project Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has abandoned its eagerly awaited online news aggregation platform, code-named ‘Project Alesia’, just weeks before it was due to launch. The UK-based project was to aggregate content from British [...]
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