"The Office" joked about newspaper paywalls — specifically the one at Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal — on Thursday night's episode. ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington clashed with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner Thursday at the Monaco Media Forum. Huffington and ...
Business Insider | Jay Yarow|Nov. 4, 2009, 9:22 AM |1 | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
Bloomberg LP is mulling plans to charge for access to parts of its website, as well as parts of newly acquired BusinessWeek's website. Bloomberg is...
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 11.30.2009 | 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 ...
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...
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 | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Visitors to the Web sites of newspapers owned by News Corp. will have to start paying fees to read the news within the next year, Cha...
Guardian | John Plunkett | Posted 08.16.2009 | Media
The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has predicted that "almost all" news organisations will be charging for online content within a year. Ba...
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...
Bloomberg | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- New York Times Co. said in a survey of print subscribers that it's considering a $5 monthly fee for access to its namesake newsp...
MediaWeek | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media
In the latest online paid content experiment by a publisher, BusinessWeek will create a special presentation of its print magazine content that will o...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
SAN FRANCISCO — Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes chimed in Friday with the chorus of publishers wondering how much longer newspap...
WWD | Amy Wicks | Posted 06.15.2009 | Media
Martha Stewart is about to try something most magazine publishers have yet to attempt: charging for online videos. Next month, Stewart will begin test...
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...
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...
New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media
In one of the most ambitious online undertakings by a media outfit, News Corp. has assembled a team of executives to devise a system to charge for con...
LA Times | David Lazarus | Posted 05.05.2009 | Business
Free access to e-mail, bank accounts and networking sites -- now taken for granted -- may soon be a thing of the past....
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media