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1. April 6, 2011 12:05 PM

   “Don’t Call it a Paywall”

   A panel discussion with NYT’s Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and Janet Robinson

   By Lauren Kirchner

   On Tuesday night, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and New York Times Company president and CEO Janet Robinson spoke at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in a panel discussion titled “The Future of Media, Publishing, and Paid Content.” The title was perhaps a bit too grand, as the discussion, not surprisingly, mainly focused on the Times’s new...

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2. October 24, 2012 06:50 AM

   Newsweek and the (relative) health of print mags

   Not all is dark for the industry

   By Ryan Chittum

   News that Newsweek is exiting print was hardly surprising coming two years after the Washington Post Company unloaded it for a dollar. But these numbers struck me while reading this Financial Times story on the news: Newsweek has suffered more than some rivals. Its 1.5m circulation is less than half what it was five years ago, and Publishers Information Bureau...

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3. October 20, 2011 02:53 PM

   NYT Paywall to Other Papers: “Copy Me!”

   There's no excuse for other publishers not to follow the Times's model

   By Ryan Chittum

   If The New York Times spun off its digital edition, it would be the tenth biggest paper in the country by circulation, with more paying readers than the Chicago Sun-Times and just behind the Chicago Tribune in circ. With its third quarter results out this morning, the Times further solidifies the case for its paywall strategy, which has brought it...

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4. August 9, 2011 05:41 PM

   A Tale of Two Paywalls

   One goes up, the other comes down

   By Alysia Santo

   In Honolulu, the Civil Beat, a subscription-based online news site, has been drawing a line in the white hot Hawaiian sand and asking the state’s news consumers to choose a corner: new media startup vs. legacy media organization. Their opponent is the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, a newspaper birthed out of a consolidation of the Honolulu Advertiser and the Star Bulletin, and,...

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5. April 4, 2012 07:51 PM

   All You Can Eat Magazines

   Ken Doctor reports on a promising venture from five major publishers

   By Ryan Chittum

   Ken Doctor has a very interesting report for the Nieman Journalism Lab on the new consortium called Next Issue Media that's ramping up to offer all-you-can-eat digital subscription access to major magazines. This looks like a magazine lover's dream. It's also a major venture, and it's one that could continue to transform the prospects for paid content. The inconvenience and...

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6. May 10, 2012 02:12 AM

   Audit notes: Blodget’s anonymous Zuck fans, Ongo no-go, social news apps

   New York cover story dispenses with named sources

   By Ryan Chittum

   Here's the sourcing in Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget's New York cover story on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "a colleague of Zuckerberg," "another early colleague of Zuckerberg," "one Silicon Valley veteran," "one Valley veteran," "A Zuckerberg confidant," "one insider," "a former Facebook employee," "a former Facebook executive fired by Zuckerberg," "A longtime Facebook exec," "some Zuckerberg skeptics," "One former Facebook...

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7. February 24, 2012 08:37 PM

   Audit Notes: Daisey vs. Pogue, American Banker, LAT Paywall

   By Ryan Chittum

   Mike Daisey, of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and the recent This American Life exposé of Apple's outsourced China factories, shreds The New York Times's David Pogue over his apologia for Apple's labor practices (I criticized Pogue for an earlier post on the Apple controversy). In a mostly excellent rant (apart from questioning whether Pogue is being "manipulative"...

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8. April 18, 2012 02:21 AM

   Audit Notes: French Capital, French Economists, Hulu’s Paywall

   By Ryan Chittum

   Bloomberg's Mark Whitehouse is good to report that as the Eurocrisis flares again, with Spain in the spotlight now, investors have been creeping out of France for months: As of February, the debts of the Bank of France to other central banks in the euro area stood at about 96.3 billion euros, up from 7.4 billion euros in July 2011...

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9. December 23, 2011 05:05 PM

   Audit Notes: Newsstand Success, Paywalls and Tacos, WSJ on Debt Collectors

   By Ryan Chittum

   How much has Apple's Newsstand increased sales of magazine apps. It's hard to say, but Peter Kafka posts a chart showing Popular Science, at least, has clearly benefited: That spike toward the end coincides with the launch of Newsstand, which looks to have sent Popular Science app subscriptions roughly a quarter to a third above the trendline. As it stands,...

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10. May 24, 2012 12:21 AM

    Audit notes: No more daily in New Orleans, McClatchy, private equity

    The NYT reports the Times-Picayune will print two or three times a week

    By Ryan Chittum

    If ever a town needed a newspaper, it's New Orleans. But David Carr reports that Newhouse is preparing big layoffs at the Times-Picayune, which will no longer be a daily newspaper. Newhouse Newspapers, which owns the Times-Picayune, will apparently be working off a blueprint the company used in Ann Arbor, Mich., where it reduced the frequency of the Ann Arbor...

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11. September 28, 2012 12:46 AM

    Audit Notes: NYT’s Web bonanza, Doctor on paywalls, capital gains taxes

    The paper sells its stake in a jobs site for a stunning profit

    By Ryan Chittum

    The New York Times Company has sold its stake in the Indeed.com jobs site for $100 million profit, which ain't bad, considering it bought it for just $5 million or so in 2005. That's a 2000 percent return in seven years—not a bad Internet investment for a newspaper company. Put it this way, it's more than Apple shares have returned...

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12. October 20, 2011 10:26 PM

    Audit Notes: Paying for Newspapers Edition

    By Ryan Chittum

    I may have spoken too soon when I said to expect The New York Times's paid subscription growth rate to continue to decline this quarter. Poynter's Jeff Sonderman reports that Newsstand, the long-awaited feature in Apple's newly released operating system for iPhones and iPads is causing explosive growth in news app downloads. A stunning 1.8 million iPhone users downloaded NYT's...

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13. February 29, 2012 07:54 PM

    Audit Notes: Paywalls Paying Off, Digital Privacy, Murdoch

    By Ryan Chittum

    As Warren Buffett knows, when you give away your product online, it undermines the one you charge good money for in print. NetNewsCheck reports from the Key Executives Mega Conference: Jeanny Sharp, editor and publisher of the Ottawa Herald, said the move to paid content in July 2010 was a matter of stopping the bleeding, having watched her paper's print...

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14. June 5, 2012 12:30 AM

    Audit Notes: seaside villas, paywall past, Citi fraud

    By Ryan Chittum

    Line of the day goes to Bloomberg News for this gem from Robert Benmosche, CEO of government-owned AIG (emphasis mine): American International Group Inc. (AIG) Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche said Europe’s debt crisis shows governments worldwide must accept that people will have to work more years as life expectancies increase. “Retirement ages will have to move to 70, 80...

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15. March 8, 2012 08:44 PM

    Audit Notes: Tabloid Chutzpah, Paywall Performance, The Fed and Dividends

    By Ryan Chittum

    Rebekah Brooks, former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK tabloids, which were rogue even by the viciously sensationalist standards of that industry, has her attorney Stephen Parkinson take to the pages of the Telegraph to argue that "The flaws in the design of the Leveson Inquiry have undermined the judicial process" and asking "can these journalists really get a fair trial?"...

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16. May 25, 2012 11:09 AM

    David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on the Times-Picayune cuts

    By David Simon

    It's grievous what is happening to regional newspapers, especially. But the whole industry will continue to collapse until everyone swallows hard and goes behind a paywall. The New York Times has shown us the end of the beginning; they've embraced the paywall and they are seeing significant revenue. The Washington Post, LA Times, others have to follow. Once the content...

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17. August 15, 2011 02:22 PM

    How the NYT Paywall Is Working

    By Felix Salmon

    When I wrote about the success of the NYT paywall last month, I got a lot of pushback in the comments and on Twitter. Here’s a sample: “The fact people pay speaks more people’s average techno-illiteracy/laziness about how to change a link address in their browser than anything else.” “Add ?ref=fb to the base link of any NYT article...

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18. November 6, 2012 05:30 PM

    Nor’easter blows Newsday’s paywall down

    Long Island and Westchester/Rockland editions providing free access

    By Sara Morrison

    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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19. February 3, 2012 11:15 AM

    NYT Paywall Datapoints of the Day

    By Felix Salmon

    Ken Doctor has a very smart and interesting take on the news that the NYT now has 390,000 paying digital subscribers — plus another 16,000 at the Boston Globe. It’s unambiguously good news, on many fronts. First, and most importantly, digital ad revenues went up by 10% in the area of the business with the paywall, while plunging by 26%...

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20. June 12, 2012 10:32 AM

    Owens’s straw man army

    A commentator takes 10 swings at paywalls, and misses each time

    By Ryan Chittum

    Howard Owens's 5,200 word CJR riposte to David Simon on paywalls deserve a reply of its own (outside of its comments section, which at 126 and counting, you should take some time to read). Owens’s ideas are something of an artifact—conventional wisdom from a few years ago that time and new information have disproved. Let’s be clear: When it comes...

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