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NYT Paywall to Other Papers: “Copy Me!”
There’s no excuse for other publishers not to follow the Times’s model
By Ryan Chittum Oct 20, 2011 at 02:53 PM
If The New York Times spun off its digital edition, it would be the tenth biggest paper in the country... More
Audit Notes: WSJ on Selling Access, Wall Street-Style; Yanked; Small Paywalls
By Ryan Chittum May 16, 2011 at 08:25 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one story on how Wall Street gives hedge funds access to key... More
Audit Notes: Fallows on Orszag, The Atlantic in the Black, Google
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51 PM
Obama cabinet official Peter Orszag took a spin through the revolving door and ended up in a million-dollar sinecure at... More
Audit Notes: Fukayama on the Crisis, WSJ on Exec Pay, Nonprofit News
By Ryan Chittum Jan 27, 2012 at 06:14 PM
The Browser has a great interview with Francis Fukayama on his five favorite financial-crisis books. Here he is on whether... More
Audit Notes: Gannett profits, Spiegel grilling, private equity
By Ryan Chittum Jun 27, 2012 at 02:37 AM
At least Gannett is optimistic about the next few years, The Wall Street Journal reports (emphasis mine): Gannett, publisher of... More
Audit Notes: Off the Hamster Wheel, The Dumb Money, iPad Newspapers
By Ryan Chittum Feb 9, 2012 at 01:53 AM
I like this Nieman Journalism Lab piece on how Salon hopped off the hamster wheel and saw site traffic increase... More
Audit Notes: Paywall Protection, News Corp. Scandal Widens, Goldman and Libya
By Ryan Chittum Jun 9, 2011 at 07:49 PM
Ken Doctor has a good post over at Nieman Journalism Lab on the Walter Hussman Theorem, which is that you... More
Audit Notes: Stray on Silver, the new-old Black, ‘rocketing’ from a low base
Data-based journalism and its potential; an ex-mogul takes a flogging, etc.
By Dean Starkman Nov 2, 2012 at 11:30 AM
The best thing about the faux-controversy between New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan and political stats whiz Nate Silver... More
Audit Notes: Sunday Papers, Weymouth’s Payday, Ayn Rand
By Ryan Chittum Mar 24, 2011 at 08:15 PM
Ken Doctor has some interesting thoughts at the Nieman Journalism Lab on why The New York Times's paywall pricing steers... More
Audit Notes: What News Corp. Knew, Mulcaire Talks, FT Paywall Success
By Ryan Chittum Jul 29, 2011 at 07:40 PM
The New York Times has a big scoop tonight on the Murdoch hacking scandal, reporting that News International and its... More
Gannett’s Multimillionaires Regret to Inform 700 Workers of Their Layoffs
Imagine if these six execs scrapped the “multi” and took low seven figures
By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2011 at 01:42 AM
Gannett says "we need to take further steps to align our costs with the current revenue trends," so it's laying... More
Newspaper Turnaround Stories
Give credit to the creditors and the courts before the CEOs
By Ryan Chittum Apr 18, 2011 at 04:24 PM
David Carr takes a look today at the fortunes of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which have stopped plummeting at least... More
NYT Paywall Datapoints of the Day
By Felix Salmon Feb 3, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Ken Doctor has a very smart and interesting take on the news that the NYT now has 390,000 paying digital... More
Owens’s straw man army
A commentator takes 10 swings at paywalls, and misses each time
By Ryan Chittum Jun 12, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Howard Owens's 5,200 word CJR riposte to David Simon on paywalls deserve a reply of its own (outside of its... More
Responding to Shirky on the Washington Post
Transformation is required, and transformation takes investment
By Ryan Chittum Jun 1, 2012 at 01:31 PM
Thanks to Clay Shirky for responding to my piece on the financialization of the Washington Post Company, which during the... More
The New York Times Paywall Is Working
By Felix Salmon Jul 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM
Back in April, I was very skeptical that The New York Times would achieve its leaked goal of getting 300,000... More
The NYT Paywall Hums Along
By Ryan Chittum Mar 20, 2012 at 03:34 PM
The New York Times's paywall continues to outperform expectations at its first birthday. The paper says it now has 454,000... More
Warren Buffett and Paywalls
By Ryan Chittum Feb 28, 2012 at 05:53 PM
The newspaper paywall now has a champion in some guy in Nebraska named Warren Buffett. Buffett, who just forked over... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
