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A news app and iPad wrap

By Julie Starr | Published: December 20, 2010
A few posts I’ve seen recently about news apps and particularly iPad news apps – research and thoughts on who’s using them and how, services being launched, and predictions for 2011. (UPDATED) iPad news apps may diminish newspaper print subscriptions in 2011 Reynolds Institute of Journalism The Reynolds Institute of Journalism has begun a multi-year [...]
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What pays more – fluff or public interest?

By Julie Starr | Published: October 20, 2010
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 [...]
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NZ online ad spend up 22%

By Julie Starr | Published: February 26, 2009
The Interactive Advertising Bureau says online ad spend was up sharply in the fourth quarter, and total internet spending for 2008 up a whopping 43% year-on-year to $193 million. But there’s a spike in the tail: spending in the fourth quarter was 3% down over the immediatlely proceeding period.
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More bad news for news publishers

By Julie Starr | Published: February 26, 2009
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 [...]
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Times Online to charge for archive access

By Julie Starr | Published: September 18, 2008
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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