Micropayments

Google Pitching Newspapers Micropayments Platform

Nieman Lab | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media


Google is developing a micropayment platform that will be "available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year," according to a do...

Micropayments For Wall Street Journal Website Planned By News Corp.

Financial Times | Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and Kenneth Li | Posted 06.10.2009 | Media


News Corp plans to introduce micro-payments for individual articles and premium subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal's website this year in a mile...

Why Do We Pay for Stuff on Our Phones, But Not Our Computers?

Scott Lachut | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media


Scott Lachut

Long before the Internet provided a go-to source of information from weather to sports scores, the phone companies were conditioning us to accept the notion of pay-for premiums.

Turning to a New Generation to Solve the News Crisis

Alexander Heffner | Posted 04.25.2009 | Media


Alexander Heffner

Rather than asking young people to pay -- an admittedly unrealistic proposition according to most of those who study journalistic trends -- let's seek their own engagement in news gathering.

Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: February 10, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media


Ah, journalism! How are we going to save it? Gently suggest they produce a better product? HAY-YELLS NO! As of this moment, I'm backing the Alex B...

Journalism Does Not Need To Be Saved, Newspapers Do

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media


Henryk A. Kowalczyk

I see editorial writing in U.S. mainstream media, with a very few exceptions, as propaganda deprived of intellectual reflection. The public senses this as well, distrusts the media instinctively.