http://www.crikey.com.au now with extra source Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:25:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/24/bringing-down-the-wall-news-in-flurry-to-lock-up-content/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/24/bringing-down-the-wall-news-in-flurry-to-lock-up-content/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 03:04:26 +0000 Margaret Simons http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=224985 http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/24/bringing-down-the-wall-news-in-flurry-to-lock-up-content/feed/ 5 http://www.followthemedia.com/fittoprint/paywall31032010.htm http://www.followthemedia.com/fittoprint/paywall31032010.htm#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:04:15 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=127878 Times newspaper is hemorrhaging about £1.5 million a week -- so while erecting an online paywall may seem risky, he has nothing to lose and everything to gain, says media consultant Philip M. Stone.]]> http://www.followthemedia.com/fittoprint/paywall31032010.htm/feed/ 0 http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Rupert-Murdoch-News-Corp-The-Times-pay-walls-onlin-pd20100329-3Z8DV?OpenDocument http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Rupert-Murdoch-News-Corp-The-Times-pay-walls-onlin-pd20100329-3Z8DV?OpenDocument#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:51:17 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=127022 The Times, says Stephen Bartholomeusz: no bundling, no micro-payments, no tiered access. It's all or nothing with Rupe.]]> http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Rupert-Murdoch-News-Corp-The-Times-pay-walls-onlin-pd20100329-3Z8DV?OpenDocument/feed/ 0 http://mumbrella.com.au/murdochs-paid-online-access-strategy-for-the-times-might-just-work-for-the-australian-21752#more-21752 http://mumbrella.com.au/murdochs-paid-online-access-strategy-for-the-times-might-just-work-for-the-australian-21752#more-21752#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:37:14 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=126987 The Australian follows the recently revealed online paywall model for the UK's Times, it will only need 50,000-odd subscribers to make it worthwhile, according to Tim Burrowes' maths.]]> http://mumbrella.com.au/murdochs-paid-online-access-strategy-for-the-times-might-just-work-for-the-australian-21752#more-21752/feed/ 0 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/with-an-app-at-the-ready-the-australian-awaits-the-ipad/story-e6frgakx-1225846176754 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/with-an-app-at-the-ready-the-australian-awaits-the-ipad/story-e6frgakx-1225846176754#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:08:54 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=126676 The Australian says it will be "among the first newspapers to offer an iPad edition". It isn't naming a price -- but there will be one -- but ominously notes that its sister paper, the WSJ, is charging AU$19.80 a month.]]> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/with-an-app-at-the-ready-the-australian-awaits-the-ipad/story-e6frgakx-1225846176754/feed/ 0 http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/03/newspaper-economics-online-and-offline.html http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/03/newspaper-economics-online-and-offline.html#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:16:37 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=122075 Hal Varian offers some advice to newspaper publishers: paywalls won't cure your financial woes -- going big online will. Forget costly printed news: news outlets must go 100% online to survive.]]> http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/03/newspaper-economics-online-and-offline.html/feed/ 0 http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/04/rupert-says-content-is-king-yeah-right-but-its-a-clothes-call/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/04/rupert-says-content-is-king-yeah-right-but-its-a-clothes-call/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:00:13 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=114112 http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/04/rupert-says-content-is-king-yeah-right-but-its-a-clothes-call/feed/ 2 http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:34:40 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=112365 NYT and News Corp, it has been revealed that newsday.com has only secured 35 subscribers since the paper put up a paywall. The account of how the figure came out is gold.]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site/feed/ 0 http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/new-york-times-to-join-the-paywall-brigade/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/new-york-times-to-join-the-paywall-brigade/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:11:52 +0000 Eric Beecher http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=111191 New York Times will introduce a charge for readers to use its website next year, heralding the most important development so far in the agonising who-will-pay-for-quality-journalism debate. The world of free journalism will never be the same.]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/new-york-times-to-join-the-paywall-brigade/feed/ 18 http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/crikey-wrap-moving-with-the-ny-times/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/crikey-wrap-moving-with-the-ny-times/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:38:43 +0000 Crikey Intern http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=111254 NY Times has announced that it will resurrect a paywall for its online content, sending media geeks and commentators' fingers flying over whether it will work and What It All Means. Crikey intern Flint Duxfield takes a look at what they're saying.]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/crikey-wrap-moving-with-the-ny-times/feed/ 0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.html#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:00:06 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=111101 New York Times unveils its plans for the future of NYTimes.com: readers will get a flat number of free articles per month before having to pay.]]> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.html/feed/ 0 http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/01/new_york_times_set_to_mimic_ws.html http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/01/new_york_times_set_to_mimic_ws.html#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:49:28 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=110143 New York magazine claims the New York Times is soon to announce that it will start charging readers for access to its website, adopting a "metered system" (ie x number of articles free per day, pay for the rest) akin to that of the Financial Times.]]> http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/01/new_york_times_set_to_mimic_ws.html/feed/ 0 http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/13/murdochs-grand-paywall-experiment-will-aussies-pay/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/13/murdochs-grand-paywall-experiment-will-aussies-pay/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:35:52 +0000 Margaret Simons http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=109328 http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/13/murdochs-grand-paywall-experiment-will-aussies-pay/feed/ 95 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/12/16/ninemsn-nails-its-colours-to-the-mast-information-is-free/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/12/16/ninemsn-nails-its-colours-to-the-mast-information-is-free/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:36:19 +0000 Margaret Simons http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=106426 Ninemsn news executive producer Hal Crawford has written a distinctly bolshie blog post arguing that Rupert Murdoch's paywall push is a threat to freedom, reports Margaret Simons. Given it's the most popular news website in the country, that's no small thing.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/12/16/ninemsn-nails-its-colours-to-the-mast-information-is-free/feed/ 0 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012435.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012435.html?categoryid=14&cs=1#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:30:46 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=104867 Variety is putting up a paywall tomorrow. It's an icon of the industry, but with a $248-a-year subscription fee, its real cachet will be put to the test. ]]> http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012435.html?categoryid=14&cs=1/feed/ 0 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574569570797550520.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574569570797550520.html#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:32:45 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=103149 Eric Schmidt: Google News provides their sites with billions of clicks every month -- and it wants to work with them to build bigger audiences and make more money.]]> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574569570797550520.html/feed/ 0 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/02/websites-charge-content-paywall-murdoch http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/02/websites-charge-content-paywall-murdoch#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:53:58 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=102906 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/02/websites-charge-content-paywall-murdoch/feed/ 0 http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/01/google-news-concession-first-clicks-free/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/01/google-news-concession-first-clicks-free/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:36:27 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=102647 First Click Free" program. Is the search giant selling out to The Man?]]> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/01/google-news-concession-first-clicks-free/feed/ 0 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/dec/01/false-gospel-web-murdoch-lieutenant http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/dec/01/false-gospel-web-murdoch-lieutenant#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:35:33 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=102591 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/dec/01/false-gospel-web-murdoch-lieutenant/feed/ 0 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/30/journalism-paywall-johnston-press http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/30/journalism-paywall-johnston-press#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:17:45 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=102080 Tim Luckhurst. Thousands of journalists have already lost their jobs -- paywalls are the industry's only hope to restore some sanity.]]> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/30/journalism-paywall-johnston-press/feed/ 0 http://mumbrella.com.au/news-reveals-online-gaming-as-next-phase-of-micropayments-strategy-12849#more-12849 http://mumbrella.com.au/news-reveals-online-gaming-as-next-phase-of-micropayments-strategy-12849#more-12849#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:11:14 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=101838 Daily Telegraph website in the company's latest endeavour to monetise more of its online real estate. ]]> http://mumbrella.com.au/news-reveals-online-gaming-as-next-phase-of-micropayments-strategy-12849#more-12849/feed/ 0 http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/11/time_conde_hearst_to_create_an_itunes_for_magazines.php http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/11/time_conde_hearst_to_create_an_itunes_for_magazines.php#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:28:19 +0000 Ruth Brown http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=101162 http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/11/time_conde_hearst_to_create_an_itunes_for_magazines.php/feed/ 0 http://www.thewrap.com/article/future-paid-content-10673 http://www.thewrap.com/article/future-paid-content-10673#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:57:53 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=100807 Journalism Online has 1200 publishers on-board, and Time is creating an iTunes for magazine articles. What's next on the path to making paywalls prosperous?]]> http://www.thewrap.com/article/future-paid-content-10673/feed/ 0 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aRVlZEzbmNu0&pos=13 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aRVlZEzbmNu0&pos=13#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:27:07 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=100799 Denver Post and the Dallas Morning News are planning to de-index their news articles from Google, emulating Rupert Murdoch's plans to cut the search off from News Corp content.]]> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aRVlZEzbmNu0&pos=13/feed/ 0 http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/22/bing-tries-to-buy-the-news/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/22/bing-tries-to-buy-the-news/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:45:02 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=100400 all the news -- and it might just sell its credibility in the process.]]> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/22/bing-tries-to-buy-the-news/feed/ 0