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November 6, 2012 05:30 PM
Nor’easter blows Newsday’s paywall down
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The paywall at Newsday — both its Long Island and Westchester/Rockland versions — has come down for now. According to spokesperson Lauren Andrich, the paywall was taken down Monday to help its coverage areas, many still recovering from Hurricane Sandy, prepare for Wednesday’s predicted Nor’easter. Newsday may have removed its paywall during Sandy, but the paper restored it too...
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October 29, 2012 04:25 PM
The Frankenstorm exception
Will lowered paywalls mean new customers?
At a Poynter ethics forum last week, Pew’s Tom Rosenstiel noted that one source of print journalism’s ongoing woes is focusing on supposedly dwindling audiences rather than dwindling dollars. “The real crisis facing print journalism in particular is really more a revenue crisis than an audience crisis,” he said. Ahead of Hurricane Sandy’s landfall in the tri-state area, The New...
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