Tag: PAYWALL

This one's a bit on the hilarious side, just giving you fair warning. If you thought Rupert Murdoch was ridiculous with his quest to erect paywalls around his online news empire, you're in for a surprise. The Sun Chronicle, a small-time newspaper in Massachusetts, is instituting a paywall this week that's even more pretentious than the likes of which we've yet seen. They're making people ...

More sad news from the world of journalism: looks like Time Magazine is experimenting with putting its web content behind a very odd type of paywall starting with the next issue. Instead of being able to pay for a subscription to read the full content of Time in their browsers, web visitors see the beginning of each article, and this: "The following is an abridged version of an article that ...

We've all seen dying media companies try to patch up their sinking ships by putting their content behind paywalls. Rupert Murdoch's papers, including the Wall Street Journal, are probably the most famous examples, and even the New York Times is planning to launch paid content soon. While the paywall is probably only hurting media businesses, it might turn into a good thing for Starbucks. The ...

Released today, a new report from Pew Internet elucidates just how unwilling we are to pay for online news. In the State of the News Media 2010 report, Pew finds that while 71% of Internet users read their news online only 7% of all users would pay for the privilege. To put things into perspective, the report also notes that the total online advertising revenue dropped for the first time since ...

In news that must surely test the size and solidity of Rupert Murdoch's balls, it seems that one of the first behind-the-pay-wall news sites -- Newsday -- has accumulated a grand total of 35 paying subscribers in three months of operation. I've never heard of Newsday, but apparently it's a big daily paper from Long Island, New York. It was bought by the Dolans (the original owners of the HBO ...

For well over a century, readers were willing to pay to have newspapers delivered to their homes. A lot of people still do, but not enough to keep the newspaper industry afloat in the face of declining ad revenue. And few traditional newspapers (the kind with huge staffs of reporters, editors, fact checkers, and so on), have figured out how to make enough money from online advertising to turn a ...

Haven't we been through this before? The New York Times is apparently getting ready to charge readers for online access. According to sources close to Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Two main models are being considered. One is the Wall Street Journal's part-free, part-paywalled plan, where users pay for access to a lot of the paper's content. The other, more likely solution is a metered ...