More than a year ago The Times (of London) introduced its paywall solution, followed in March this year by the New York Times. So how have they been doing? When compared to print circulation the answer would have to be not very well.
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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 [...]
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Tweet The battle of the aggregators and news providers deepened today, with UK service NewsNow.co.uk saying News International had barred it from being able to link to any content on Times Online. The increasingly bitter confrontation over the right to link to freely available news content threatens to set precedents that fly in the face [...]
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Tweet Image via Wikipedia The Associated Press has laid off “dozens” of news staff as part of the agency‘s bid to reduce staffing costs by 10% this year. The moves come as the 163-year-old cooperative wire agency has grappled with falling revenues, mutiny from its members and well-publicised battles against search engines and aggregators that [...]
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Tweet Paywallman flies to newspaper rescue And the drum keeps playing. It’s almost as if Rupert Murdoch believes that if the News Corp digital tribe keeps chanting the mantra that Google will be blocked from indexing their sites, the future of publishing and the wealth of publishers will be preserved. On Friday, the Telegraph reported [...]
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People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, Mr Murdoch.
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Tweet Associated Press supremo Tom Curley will likely have gagged on his breakfast this morning as he tried to digest the news that the struggling Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and other Tribune Co newspapers planned to do an AP cold turkey for a week from 8 November as part of a test to see [...]
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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, [...]
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