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Posts Tagged Pay walls
The Deal with the Daily Mail
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics, New Media on July 21, 2010
The Daily Mail’s website is a humongous success. And it’s free.
Let’s skip the pros and cons of the somewhat tired ‘to paywall or not to paywall’ argument for a moment and focus on a website which is quite virtually rolling in the dough: MailOnline, Web version of the UK’s Daily Mail. According to Peter Preston of The Guardian, 1.9 million folks are still buying copies of the printed version, while online growth increased from basically nill four years ago to 40,500,00 unique visitors per month (up 72 percent year by year). Pretty impressive.
Yet a quick visit to the site’s homepage will assault the eyes with celebrity images (LiLo in prison garb, Kate Winslet in Rome, someone called Katie Price who appears to have had a plastic surgery misfire). Addressing critics who don’t believe MailOnline to be a true news site, Preston says, Read the rest of this entry »
Endangered Ecosystem
Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Media Economics, Quality Management on April 1, 2010
“Wishful thinking” was mentioned several times during the Medienhaus Vienna conference, where experts from all over the world fervently discussed the future of journalism.
Phil Meyer, the doyen of American journalism research, puts great hope in the public’s willingness to donate and the philanthropical gestures of media financers, as they’ll become key in helping journalism survive when it can no longer be financed by streams of advertising income flowing to publishing houses. Foreseeably, billions of advertising dollars will instead flood to search engines like Google or social networks Read the rest of this entry »
Axel Springer proves journalism has a future
Posted by Natascha Fioretti in Media Journalism, New Media on March 28, 2010
Romanus Otte
Who will foot the hefty bill for changes taking place in the world of journalism?
This question lingers after the curtains close at Journalism 2002: Maintaining Professionalism, Regaining Credibility, a conference held in Vienna hosted by the Medienhaus-Wien and co-organized by the EJO and MAZ. Romanus Otte, former journalist and now general manager of Welt Online owned by German publishing group Axel Springer, is confident he knows the answer. “The same people who appreciate quality journalism today will continue to pay in the future,” he says. It will be an uphill struggle for certain. Strategies will be redefined and radical changes will be introduced, yet new opportunities make this era for journalism an exciting and stimulating adventure. Springer is a publishing powerhouse in Europe, Read the rest of this entry »
Time to Pay Up?
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics on January 19, 2010
All things free must come to an end, right? So it is for the post-2007 free Internet access to nytimes.com content.
According to New York Magazine, “Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its Web site, according to people familiar with internal deliberations.” In the running for potential new payment structures are a metered pay system and a model in which specific portions of the site are free while others are available by subscription only.
Read more at New York Magazine.
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