SubscribeMurdoch Starts Charging for Online Content – Will it Work?
Leading UK newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times, both owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, have announced plans to start charging for online content starting in June. The announcement was made Friday, March 26, on the Times website. News International, the newspapers’ parent company, announced that readers will be offered a day’s use for [...]
Syndication as a revenue source for online news outlets
Ken Doctor, author of Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get, recently posted this entry on the Nieman Journalism Lab blog. He argues that syndication is increasingly becoming a profitable strategy for online news outlets. In his words: Some have said that in the digital world, news companies need to think [...]
Paywalls hit a wall – Only 35 sign up to pay for Newsday
How many people are willing to pay for online news? If Newsday is any indication, not that many. The New York Observer is reporting that 3 months after putting their content behind a paywall, only 35 people have signed up to pay $5 a week for access to the website. Epic fail! That astoundingly low [...]
St. Louis Globe-Democrat may harm your computer
The announcement that the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a newspaper that folded in the ’80s, would be revived in an online-only format was greeted with a bit of enthusiasm by people like myself (future unemployed journalists). A new outlet and possible place to freelance, I thought. Plus, the guy in charge, Dan Rositano, is the owner [...]
New York Times considers charging for online content
The New York Times is considering charging a $5.00 monthly fee for access to its website, according to various media reports. The decision should come sometime in August and could make the Times the first major U.S. newspaper to establish a pay-wall around its online content. The New York Times Company stock price has taken [...]
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