Paywalls

"The Office" Makes Paywall Joke, Mocks Wall Street Journal Site (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media


"The Office" joked about newspaper paywalls — specifically the one at Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal — on Thursday night's episode. ...

Arianna Huffington, Mathias Dopfner Clash Over Paid Content At Monaco Media Forum (VIDEO)

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 ...

Bloomberg Considers Charging $1,000/Year For Parts Of Site

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...

Newsday Columnist Saul Friedman Quits Over Paywall

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 Site Turns To Subscriber Model

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...

Mark Cuban: Kill News Aggregators, End Free Links

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 ...

Financial Times Execs Vindicated By Move Towards Paywalls: "It Was Pretty Lonely Out There For A While In Paid Land"

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...

Murdoch Just The Latest In The Charge Against The Pay Wall

Washington Post | Frank Ahrens | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Rupert Murdoch's announcement this week that he expects to stop charging for access to the Wall Street Journal's Web site is the latest example of a p...