Tag Archives: revenue
What pays more – fluff or public interest?
Some food for thought via Nieman Lab about what kind of content creates the most value for news publishers online: A study released today provides a hopeful counterpoint… For publishers, hard-news-focused, public-interest-oriented reporting might actually be more valuable than celebrity gossip and similarly LiLotastic fare. And not just in a good-for-democracy sense, but in a [...]
More bad news for news publishers
I told myself I wouldn’t bother rounding up bad news about the new business anymore but feel like pointing to these: NZ writedowns hurt APN’s profit “Another Australasian media company – APN News & Media – is reducing the value of key assets as the advertising downturn bites on both sides of the Tasman. “The [...]
Times Online to charge for archive access
It's a question newspaper sites eventually face: do we or don't we charge for access to our archives? Assuming, of course, that they have a searchable archive. Times Online, the website of the Times newspaper in the UK, launched its archive in June on a free trial basis and has just announced it is putting much of it behind a paywall, according to the Guardian: An email to users described the first three months of the archive as the "free introductory period" and explained that although featured articles on the archive homepage would remain free, access will be charged at £4.95 for one day, £14.95 for one month and £74.95 for one year.
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