The Convo goes global. The good news keeps coming for The Conversation — the website, led by former Age editor-in-chief Andrew Jaspan, featuring news and anlysis from academics. Two days after receiving tax deductability status and $2 million in federal government funding, the site has launched a UK version (Crikey told you it was coming in February). The British site […]
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Hywood goads Guardian as Fairfax results show revenues down
Fairfax’s financial results released today paint a mixed picture for the troubled company, with profits up but revenue down.
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News Ltd paywall rethink: Courier-Mail flags metered model
Staffers at Brisbane’s Courier-Mail have been told an online paywall is on the way this year. But it might be a different model to the Herald Sun’s struggling “freemium” paywall.
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Game on in Fairfax v News paywall battle as Fin goes metered
Fairfax’s The Australian Financial Review will adopt the same subscription strategy online as The New York Times — but will it have the same positive impact?
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The walking unread: newspaper circulation continues long decline
The latest circulation figures — complicated by digital subscriptions — contain more bad news for newspapers, particularly in the Fairfax stable. But which paper bucked the trend?
READ MORESimons: in a paywalled world, it won’t be what’s new but what’s valued
Content behind the paywall, whether it is analysis or news, will have to be born of journalists who take the time to understand context and nuance rather than rely on traditional values.
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Free sites, ‘freemium’ models boost newspaper revenue
Developments overseas have placed further doubt on the rigid paywall models adopted by News Corporation. Free sites are cashing in along with The New York Times and Financial Times.
READ MOREWhy paywalls might re-write the rules of journalism
Traditionally news articles have been modelled with an inverse pyramid structure but the emergence of paywalls may put an end to that, writes Tim Burrowes.
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The great News Ltd paywall experiment: are readers logging off?
The Herald Sun website has shed almost 20% of its year-on-year traffic since it went behind a paywall in March — a drop but not a calamity according to top media buyers.
READ MOREFairfax: impairment losses a major deficiency in statement
Today’s statement from Fairfax Media and CEO Greg Hywood is deficient on one major point.
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Newspaper site paywalls: dribbles of gold, not rivers
The grand experiment on erecting paywalls for news content online took another step yesterday, with News Limited releasing figures — sort of — for how many people have signed up for digital subscriptions to The Australian.
READ MOREWhittaker in the firing line at News Limited
The editor of The Daily Telegraph, the controversial Paul Whittaker, is in the firing line at News Limited as the new CEO, Kim Williams, introduces a top-to-toe renovation.
READ MORESimons: the paywall at The Fin and what defines a revolution
People like to talk about first mover advantages, but sometimes being first can be a disadvantage. As in, brave experiment and at best partial success.
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Oz goes for gold … NotW stalked Harry Potter … Nine for sale? …
The Australian goes for gold … News of the World paid me to follow 90 people, claims private detective … Phone hacking: Tom Crone admits ‘incorrect’ evidence … Nine Entertainment Co “set for assets fire sale” and more …
READ MOREAt Fairfax, Times are changing; Baker to ramp up news coverage
Fairfax Media is planning to expand its online National Times opinion site into news coverage, just as News Limited’s The Australian moves its best content behind an online paywall.
READ MOREEssential: Qantas divides voters, Fair Work Australia the only winner
Voters disapprove of Qantas management’s decision to ground its fleet, but don’t approve of the way anyone in the dispute conducted themselves except the industrial relations regulator, Essential Report has found.
READ MORENews Ltd paywall comes down on its journos too
Journalists and editors at News Limited will be forced to pay to access their own work online, with staff only receiving a 50% discount on a digital subscription rather than a free one.
READ MOREThe Australian’s golden tickets: paywall comes down on ‘new era’
The Australian has become the first mainstream newspaper in Australia to lock up its content behind a paywall. Crikey spoke to the paper’s COO John Allan about the bold experiment.
READ MOREPaywalls (now with bonus holes) and the future of journalism at News
There are smart people at News Limited. Some of them seem to have been given, if not their heads, then at least some slack in the reins.
READ MOREPaywalls: don’t expect papers here to be in a rush
When will Australian newspapers begin the great experiment of erecting paywalls around content online? It seems it may be a little later than we thought.
READ MOREHuffPo setting its sites on Oz? Let’s wait and see
Last week the founder of the Huffington Post said, in what may or may not have been a throwaway line, that it would soon open sites to serve several countries, including Australia.
READ MOREBuilding successful online business models is a community thing
The word “paywall” is inevitably linked to discussions about successful online business models, but arguably just as important is fostering a sense of community, writes Jessica Roy.
READ MOREGet out of our lives: when newspaper campaigns become sinister
When does a good old newspaper campaign become something a bit more sinister? Something like “guided democracy”?
READ MORENo Olympics Fox … NotW apologies — again
The perils of the 24-hour news clock in the News Corporation empire. Plus, paywalls a premium model across News Corporation and other media news of the day.
READ MOREThe great News experiment begins
As expected, today at the Mumbrella360 conference News Limited’s Richard Freudenstein announced that the company’s Australian newspapers will erect paywalls for some of their content online.
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