AP: NYTimes to reboot online access fees?
The Times’ executive editor Bill Keller has suggested micro-payment systems and full-access subscriptions are being considered for online content. The paper ended its paid-for access model,...
View ArticleHow much is too much? Defining the grey areas in attribution and linking
As the mainstream media shifts to writing more online content, its standards and guidelines are up for discussion. Just how much of other people’s work on external sites can/should you use and how...
View ArticlepaidContent:UK: Is raising the pay wall an ‘impossible dream?’
Robert Andrews gives a rundown of the problems newspaper companies face when trying to ‘get the genie back in the bottle’ – charging for online content that has been free for 15 years. Also be aware of...
View ArticleSydney Morning Herald: Financial and sports news readers will pay online,...
A new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers has suggested that readers interested in finance and sport showed a ‘relatively high willingness’ to pay for this type of content online. “But overall,...
View ArticleBeatBlogging.Org: ‘UK news regulation stands in the way of newsroom convergence’
I’ve provided a guest post for BeatBlogging.org, the US-based site that looks at how to use social networks and other web tools to improve beat reporting. Using examples from various Journalism.co.uk...
View ArticleThe Atlantic: The newspaper publishers’ quiet conclave
“Shhhh. Newspaper Publishers Are Quietly Holding a Very, Very Important Conclave Today. Will You Soon Be Paying for Online Content?” revealed James Warren, yesterday. Full story at this link…Similar...
View ArticleGoing back to the backlink licensing case: NLA’s full statement
This goes back to last week, but it seems worth putting up here anyway. Last Thursday Matt Wardman covered this story for Press Gazette: about the Newspaper Licensing Agency regulating hyperlinks for...
View ArticleFT.com: ‘There will be a transition to people paying for the internet,’ says...
A couple of things extremely pertinent to the paid content debate in a ‘view from the top’ interview on FT.com. It’s with Liberty Media chairman, John Malone, described by the FT’s Richard Milne as...
View ArticleChannel 4 News video: Lionel Barber on news’ paid-for future
More from Lionel Barber on the future as paid-for, following his speech at an industry event last month in which the FT editor predicted almost all news organisations would charge for online content in...
View ArticleEditors Weblog: Le Figaro to start charging for some online content
The Editors Weblog picks up reports from Press News and 20minutes that the French daily, Le Figaro, is to start charging for some of its online content in early 2010. Full post at this link…Similar...
View ArticleJames Murdoch speech in full: ‘The only reliable, durable, and perpetual...
James Murdoch’s speech at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival on Friday, titled ‘The Absence of Trust,’ concluded that ‘the only reliable, durable, and perpetual guarantor of...
View ArticleBusiness Insider: Chart of the Day – 24% of US newspapers don’t use digital...
Courtesy of Silicon Alley Insider’s ‘Business Insider’, a chart showing that 24 per cent of US newspapers do not use any digital delivery platforms to spread their online content. “The American Press...
View Article#FollowJourn: @christiandunn/digital news editor
#FollowJourn: Christian Dunn Who? Digital news editor, NWN Media What? Manages the online content for a regional newspaper group publishing in north-east Wales and Chester Where? @christiandunn and...
View ArticleFT.com: Reader’s Digest looking to overhaul sites but won’t charge for online...
FT.com reports on the latest developments at Reader’s Digest, whose US arm recently sought bankruptcy protection. The publication is looking to overhaul its global online activities: “‘We were the...
View ArticleCan in-depth journalism flourish online?
How much do we want to read online? Is the screen really the domain of the breaking-news headline, while paper is better suited to in-depth reports? Apparently not, according to techdirt.com, who refer...
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