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Wrap: paywalls, NBR, WSJ, Kachingle

Paywalls, the NBR and the WSJ Russell Brown wrote a nice piece after the NBR’s decision to charge for some of its content and posted video of the subsequent discussion he had on Media7 with publisher Barry Colman. That video is below, along with a Nieman Lab video interview with Alan Murray of the Wall Street Journal, [...]
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Wall Street Journal’s rules on using social media

Dow Jones has has emailed an updated code of conduct to its editorial staff at the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, including guidance on how to engage with social media such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
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A Monck’s take on Shirky

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.
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Wall Street Journal ‘nearly doubles’ audience

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.
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Paywall stays at WSJ

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.
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