To understand the initial impact, we compared the total visits to NYTimes.com for a 12 day period before the launch of the pay wall to the 12 days fol...
The Daily Beast | Posted 06.06.2011
The New York Times' new plan to charge online readers is no more complex than the print system, the newspaper's publisher insisted at a Columbia Unive...
The Bay Citizen | Posted 06.04.2011
The Hearst Corporation is considering a paywall for sfgate.com, the online portal of the San Francisco Chronicle, as part of a broad, new digital stra...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.31.2011
At last week's Changing Media Summit in London, sponsored by the Guardian, there was a mix of anxiety and excitement in the air. A rapidly changing ecosystem will do that.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.30.2011
Andrew Ross Sorkin argues that virtuous Brazilians are akin to "what the fledgling private equity industry circa the 1970s in the United States pursued." That is, before they became greedy barbarians in the '80s.
The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE, 3/28: The New York Times paywall officially went up at 2 PM ET. From now on, readers will be allowed to access up to 20 articles a month befor...
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 05.25.2011
I want to track a story as it develops, I certainly won't be looking at the print edition of anything, and, once the long-threatened paywall goes up, I won't be getting my updates from nytimes.com.
Claire Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011
With the Internet reducing search, transaction and distribution costs to near nil, savvy start-ups have been able to thwart the capitalist order and make use-value the sole value of a good once again.
guardian.co.uk | Mark Sweney | Posted 05.25.2011
Telegraph Media Group is understood to be planning to introduce charging for some of its digital content from September. The Daily Telegraph and Te...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
I missed this on Valentine's Day, but in that day's edition of the New York Times, Scott Turow, Paul Aiken, and James Shapiro published an op-ed weigh...
The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011
The New York Times will introduce multiple subscription packages for its website when it unveils its paywall in early February, the Wall Street Journa...
The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011
The New York Times will charge readers under $20 a month for full access to its website, BusinessWeek reports. The magazine cites "a person familiar ...
guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011
News International announced this morning that it has secured 105,000 sales from people who have paid to access either the papers' websites and/or its...
AP | BY ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The Web may seem like the land of something for nothing. Free video. Free news. Even free tools such as word processing and spreadshe...
Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011
The crisis has passed. And The New York Times is now actually in much better shape than most people think -- so much better that its future might even be bright.
AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 05.25.2011
BOSTON — The Boston Globe will create a new, paid subscription Web site next year and limit the content on its free site, Boston.com. The newsp...
AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 05.25.2011
Reuters' Felix Salmon saw fleeting evidence of a Time paywall last month; now NiemanLab has spotted it again. It's possible it's an experiment, and I'...
evilreads | Posted 05.25.2011
Their "archive" process (scheme) works like this: after an unspecified "period of time," all free, publicly-viewable documents posted to Scribd.com ar...
Posted 05.25.2011
The Times of London has been hemorrhaging online readers since erecting a paywall three months ago, according to data released today. Internet mar...
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011
Paywall love is a beautiful thing in the media business -- the belief of working journalists that if they charge for content the good old days that never were will grow back like ivy at Wrigley Field.
Guardian | Mark Sweney | Posted 05.25.2011
News International has unveiled new-look Times and Sunday Times websites that, from next month, will only be accessible to people who pay to use them....
Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011
One big reason digital newsrooms seem so foreign and stressful to those who have spent their careers in print is that the digital product, production schedules, goals, work-flow, reporting styles, and skill-sets are so different.
Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011
So far the London Times' traffic has dropped by two-thirds with a new online paywall. That, apparently, is actually better than expected. One editor feared it would collapse by 90%.
The Observer | Posted 05.25.2011
[The Daily] Mail's online chief, Martin Clarke, is clearly (though pragmatically) opposed to paywalls. Because he doesn't need them. Because the surge...
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011
My sources say that not only is nobody subscribing to the website, but subscribers to the paper itself -- who have free access to the site -- are not going beyond the registration page. It's an empty world.
hitwise.com | Posted 06.12.2011