This is the first in a regular series of posts that aims to pull you in to subjects and experiences beyond your core competencies. There are numerous examples of common issues across different sectors so here’s a chance to find out how others are grappling with those thorny issues.
Read More Business model, digital transformation, Links, museums, New Orleans, news international, Newspaper, newspapers, publishing, strategy, Times-Picayune, United States
Tweet So here it comes. The Times Online paywall is set to be launched. Thanks to our friends at paidContent:UK for Stephen Brook’s posting today that reported News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks told staff that readers registered with Times Online will be invited to register for an “exclusive preview of the new digital proposition” [...]
Read More Chief executive officer, journalism, Media, news, news international, newspapers, Online revenue, paywall, Rebekah Brooks, subscribers, Sunday Times, the times, Times Online
Tweet Has the bullet been bitten? Or is the bullet winging its way to the heart of its mark? The announcement by top US newspaper, The New York Times, that starting January 2011 it will charge frequent users of its website has either been heralded by underfire newspaper execs, or derided as a desperate measure [...]
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Tweet Following on from my earlier post that The Times Online had barred aggregator NewsNow.co.uk from crawling its website, it seems News International as a whole has the bit firmly between its teeth and has also banned the linking service from crawling any of its newspaper sites including including The Sun Online and the News of [...]
Read More Add new tag, aggregator, aggregators, Associated Press, audit bureau of circulation, circulation, google, Links, Microsoft, news, news international, news of the world, newsnow, Newspaper, newspapers, Online revenue, rupert murdoch, search engines, the sun, Times
Tweet This takes my vote for statistic of the week. A decade ago newspaper website homepages averaged just 12 links. Today that number has soared to around 450. Wow. Are readers suffering hyper hyperlink inflation? At what stage does the “more is good” adage become redundant? New York Times’s Nick Bilton, currently on a book-writing [...]
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Now, there is no value in the links per se. There is value in the traffic they carry. It’s a bit like a train full of passengers. While the people are on the train they can be monetised — they buy tickets, drinks and food. But take away the rails and the train can’t move. If there train doesn’t move there will be no passengers, and no revenues. Come on publishers, think about this.
Read More aggregators, google, legal, newsnow, newspapers, publishers, search engines
Tweet If there is still anyone that doubts there is a crisis in the newspaper publishing industry they must be very well hidden. It seems that as every day passes more bad news emerges. Today, it was the turn of the US Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) to hammer in new coffin nails and paint [...]
Read More advertising revenue, audit bureau of circulation, circulation, newspapers, readership, recession, revenue
Tweet Oh dear, another week and another piece of research delivering much the same grim message. No surprises then when a sample of 2,ooo UK respondents overwhelming gave a thumbs down to paying for nearly all forms of online content including news and sports coverage. Who will pay for news & views? Not the readers, [...]
Read More aggregators, mediaweek, news, newspapers, Online revenue, publishing, rupert murdoch
Tweet In a move slammed by commentators as being akin to a herd of donkey’s suing the inventor of the wheel, a number of national UK newspapers have apparently been making legal threats to content aggregator service NewsNow. What on earth is going on here? While details of the threats have yet to emerge, we [...]
Read More aggregators, music industry, newsnow, newspapers, Online revenue
Tweet US-based venture firm Y Combinator is seeking the next great idea to drive new life into paid content and journalism as traditional newspapers and magazines die. The hope is that new ideas will be generated to build paid-for content sites from the position of making money first, rather than supporting a particular form of [...]
Read More journalism, magazines, newspapers, Online revenue, startups, venture funding, Y Combinator
