A paywall will descend on Monday at The Australian, a move News Limited CEO John Hartigan says will “pioneer the way Australians consume media”.
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Paywalls at News Limited – announcement in the wind?
You heard it here first. As I reported here a couple of weeks ago, News Limited newsrooms are on instructions to be ready to move to a paywall system on short notice, writes Margaret Simons.
The great wall of Boston
Big news in the paywall or not to paywall online media world. Boston Globe will launch a subscriber-only paid site that will replica its print edition, with a second free site to focus more on breaking news.
Can online news survive without paywalls?
It’s a question that’s been asked by every online news content provider: can internet advertising alone sustain a workable business model? The case of UK’s Daily Mail seems to suggest the answer is “yes.”
Are paywalls as evil as Rupert Murdoch?
Poor, filthy rich ol’ Rupert Murdoch may be widely derided for being a heartless money grubbing media baron, but does that mean his decision to paywall The Times is necessarily a bad thing?
Media briefs: Hewson takes a swing at the press and shock! Horror! Donaghy to leave 30 Rock
John Hewson takes a big swing at the role of the press in shaping politics. Plus the New York Times look to Rupert for paywall advice, Jack Donaghy walks out of 30 Rock and other media news.
Bartholomeusz: Murdoch isn’t building a wall — he’s building a fortress
News Corp has decided has decided on a very thick and crude pay-wall model for its UK paper The Times, says Stephen Bartholomeusz: no bundling, no micro-payments, no tiered access. It’s all or nothing with Rupe.
The Oz: We’re ready for our iPad, Mr Jobs
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.
Will Aussies pay for Murdoch’s news?
It’s going to be the media issue of the new decade: whether or not Rupert Murdoch can succeed in his plans to persuade newspaper readers to pay for content online. New research doesn’t look promising.
Why Murdoch may be more right than wrong about Google
mUmBRELLA’s Tim Burrowes asks if Rupert Murdoch has a point in thumbing his nose at Google and locking News Ltd’s content behind a paywall — maybe Google traffic isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Dear Rupert, this is how the internet works. Google it.
Rupert Murdoch may be rich, clever and influential, but his plan to remove News Corp content from Google’s index is just daft. If he wants us to read his stories, let alone pay for them, we have to be able to find them first.
Rupert’s pay-up model for newspapers on the back-burner
Amid all the throwaway lines and bullish spin, Rupert Murdoch and his executives always bury some truths in their comments about quarterly profits. Yesterday’s quarterly profit announcement was no exception.
Tony Martin: will the media make you a junkie?
Was free web news content supposed to be a drug, getting us hooked and then we’d be desperate to pay to get our next hit of Kyle Sandilands? asks Tony Martin.
FT.com to go pay-per-article
The Financial Times, which already paywall a significant chunk of their online content, are set to take charging for online news a step further with a “pay-per-article” scheme, allowing readers to buy access to individual news articles, just like an mp3 on iTunes.
A history lesson for Australian media outlets
Australian media outlets desperately attempting to apply the newspaper revenue model to online content would do well to look at how this wound up for the music industry, says OzSoapbox. Spoiler: it didn’t work out well.
