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, [...]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For those who like a bit of sport, Jack Shafer over at Slate is looking for some help spotting signs of the Murdochification of the Wall Street Journal.
Outgoing Wall Street Journal editor Paul E Steiger has wound up with a page one wrap of changes in the newspaper business over the past few decades. It's well worth a read.
US newspapers are losing the battle for local online advertising to web-only players like Google, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
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