"The Office" joked about newspaper paywalls — specifically the one at Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal — on Thursday night's episode. ...
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 New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media
"In the end, I think it will come down to a gut call about what we think the audience will accept and how we think the market will evolve," said Bill ...
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...
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...
The Guardian | Mark Sweney | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media
The Financial Times is to introduce a full "pay-per-view" model for accessing online articles by next summer and is reviewing whether any content on F...
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...
The Atlantic | James Warren | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media
Here's a story the newspaper industry's upper echelon apparently kept from its anxious newsrooms: A discreet Thursday meeting in Chicago about their f...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media