"The Office" joked about newspaper paywalls — specifically the one at Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal — on Thursday night's episode. ...
Guardian | Bobbie Johnson, San Francisco | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online. In an interview with ...
New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media
So count Saul Friedman a contrarian twice over. Mr. Friedman, who had written a column for Newsday since 1996, quit last week over the paper's deci...
Newsday | October 22, 2009 | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media
Beginning Wednesday, most of Newsday.com content will only be available to subscribers of Optimum Online, Newsday, or those willing to pay for it. T...
The Independent | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media
Publishers of general news would find it hard to charge for their content online because too much free content is available, the chief executive of Go...
Newsweek | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
Some are talking about making readers pay subscription fees. But the most radical idea, and the one I find most intriguing, is being advanced by Mark ...
Newsweek | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
But something even stranger happened: after the Web site put up a pay wall for nearly all its content, readers would brave driving rainstorms to go ou...
Media Memo | Peter Kafka | Posted 09.27.2009 | Media
But if you're that confident in your model--which, in short, allows Web surfers to look in on the FT.com site 10 times a month for free but demands pa...
Los Angeles Times | Dawn C. Chmielewski | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media
As newspapers across the country struggle with declining readership and advertising revenue, News Corp. executives have been meeting in recent weeks w...
New York Times | ERIC PFANNER | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media
Now, with few signs that advertising is rebounding from a deep slump, and with other publishers moving to imitate FT.com by erecting so-called pay wal...
AP | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
HARLINGEN, Texas — A South Texas newspaper says it will begin charging for access to its Web site this week, warning that the days of giving con...
AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — USA Today's new publisher said Wednesday he hopes to expand the newspaper's revenue from mobile phones and portable electronic readin...
The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 06.15.2009 | Media
By the end of June, The New York Times will come to a decision on how to charge for some of its content on the Web, The Observer has learned. Execu...
New York Times | Stephanie Clifford | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media
recast, are digesting another piece of bad news: the growth in online advertising they saw as their salvation has slowed to a crawl. In the last few ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media