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Posts Tagged Wall Street Journal
The New Journalism? Investigative and Digital
Posted by Natascha Fioretti in New Media on May 18, 2010
Paul Steiger, Wall Street Journal icon and now editor-in-chief of Pulitzer-winning news site ProPublica, discusses the changing face of journalism.
Paul Steiger has dedicated much of his life to print journalism. The sixty-eight-year-old journalist worked as managing editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1991 to 2007, a period during which the business-oriented daily was awarded 16 Pulitzer prizes. Today, he’s editor-in-chief of ProPublica, a New York based investigative reporting nonprofit operating on an annual budget of $10 million.
ProPublica produces journalistic content in true American style: comprehensive, meticulous, transparent and with the public’s interest at the forefront. Yet not on paper as tradition would have it, but rather on the Web. More precisely, on www.propublica.org, where investigative reports are published and shared with not only readers, but with other media outlets which may access them for free. 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.


