Jill Abramson is too busy to worry about her own appetite. She’s more concerned about other people’s appetites – specifically, her readers’ hunger for news. ANTHONY JENKINS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL It’s a concern that takes up all of her time now, just a couple of months into her new job as executive editor of The […]
Journal Register CEO John Paton has been a vocal opponent of using paywalls to increase digital revenue for newspapers, as have his advisory board members Jeff Jarvis, Emily Bell and Jay Rosen. But what happens now that he is also the CEO of MediaNews Group, which already has more than two dozen paywall experiments running, […]
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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — A preliminary count of shareholder votes by News Corp.late Friday showed that all directors to the media giant’s board were re-elected amid contention that several members should be replaced. But no final tally on the percentage of votes either for or against the directors was ready, the company said. Some investor […]
The Economist’s email to freeloaders “Dear Reader, “We hope you have taken the opportunity to enjoy full access to The Economist online, The Economist on Android, iPhone and iPad and The Economist in audio, a range of benefits that are only available to subscribers. “Unfortunately, we have been providing you with full digital access in […]
The weak economy and the About Group’s declines have eaten away at revenue gains that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) won with last year’s ad recovery. But CEO Janet Robinson said that there hasn’t been much negative impact on the flagship site’s pageviews, since it launched last spring. That has given the company […]
The Economist will next week revoke premium digital subscriptions from some users after realising it had been accidentally servicing them for free. “Unfortunately, we have been providing you with full digital access in error,” the journal emailed users to say (see below). Some of those users had been getting a free ride for up to […]
The Australian, which is owned by News Limited and is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), is adding a paywall to its website, mobile site and apps starting on Monday. It will also relaunch redesigned versions of the website and mobile site that day. Print subscribers who get the paper at home six […]
The Times is to cut 100 editorial posts out of a total workforce of 700, editor James Harding has told staff. Further editorial cuts will also be made at the Sunday Times, with staff due to be briefed about the scale of cutbacks at the Times’s News International sister title imminently. At the Times the […]
One-time Wall Street superstar Netflix Inc will have some explaining to do when it reports quarterly results on Monday. After a summer of stumbles — starting with a highly unpopular decision to raise prices that sent customers running to rival services — investors want to see both clarity from the company on the damage and […]
by Bill Mitchell Published Oct. 19, 2011 7:29 am UpdatedOct. 19, 2011 7:43 am For media executives awaiting reassuring evidence before experimenting with digital subscriptions, the time has arrived. Simply put, their more adventurous colleagues at other companies have discovered multiple paths around the biggest risk attached to the pursuit of subscription revenue: diminished audience […]
By Felix Salmon Fred Wilson has nice things to say about my analysis of the NYT paywall—thanks, Fred!—but it’s worth teasing out one area where he and I might differ. Fred says that the NYT “went with the FT’s model”, and I’ve also heard privately from another person making an impassioned case that the NYT […]
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