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“Information Wants to Be Free”; The NYT Does Not
Paywall reactions and misunderstandings
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 17, 2011 at 05:40 PM
The New York Times has announced that its metered paywall will go into effect on March 28, costing readers $15... More
NYT Announces Paywall Details, In Effect March 28
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 17, 2011 at 11:50 AM
After months of speculation and anticipation from all sides of the industry, The New York Times revealed Thursday morning the... More
The Washington Post needs a paywall—now
A strategic error needs to be reversed, stat
By Dean Starkman Nov 26, 2012 at 10:00 AM
The not-so-gentle ejection of Marcus Brauchli from the top editor’s chair at The Washington Post has cast a bright... More
A National Paywall That Works
Lessons from Slovakia
By William F. Baker Feb 14, 2012 at 01:44 PM
While nobody was looking, a small company in Slovakia may have shed some light on one of the biggest challenges... More
Anti-paywall dead-enders
Why worry about evidence when you can argue against straw men?
By Ryan Chittum Dec 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese Army to the remote Philippine Island of Lubang with instructions... 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: Hiltzik on Drug R&D, A 1 Percent “Score”, Paywalls
By Ryan Chittum Apr 4, 2011 at 08:26 PM
The Los Angeles Times's Michael Hiltzik finds a study that questions the drug lobby's line on how much it costs... More
Audit Notes: paying for news edition
NYT cuts would surely have been much worse without its paywall
By Ryan Chittum Dec 5, 2012 at 02:12 PM
The New York Times, after a weak third quarter, is cutting 30 senior editors positions. "Senior editor" can mean a... 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
Audit Notes: WSJ Libor scoop, Business Insider, reader revenue
Deutsche Bank made big money betting on the rigged rate
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal posts an interesting page-one report on Deutsche Bank and the big profits it made betting on... More
Best of 2012: Ryan Chittum
The Audit’s deputy editor picks his favorite posts of the year
By Ryan Chittum Dec 28, 2012 at 05:33 PM
The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course — Dividends, share buybacks, and an anti-paywall stance help bleed the paper dry. CNBC:... More
Digital goes first at the FT (Updated)
The Financial Times now has more digital subscribers than print ones; running the numbers
By Dean Starkman Jul 30, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Like them or not, newspaper paywalls continue better-than-expected performances, the latest good (for some of us) news coming from The... More
How David Simon is wrong about paywalls
Let me count the ways. Ten, in fact.
By Howard Owens Jun 5, 2012 at 11:36 AM
David Simon is a talented writer and storyteller, but is he qualified to give advice to publishers about how to... More
Journal Register opens the kimono a bit
CEO John Paton gives us some hard numbers
By Ryan Chittum Sep 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
One of my biggest criticisms of Journal Register Company and Digital First Media has been how it has cherry-picked financial... More
Journal Register, future-of-news star, is bankrupt again
Takeaways for the newspaper business
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2012 at 12:05 PM
Yesterday, John Paton announced that Journal Register Company is filing for bankruptcy for the second time in three years. That’s... More
Marcus Brauchli’s impossible task
The Post’s ultimate problem is the business side, not the newsroom
By Ryan Chittum Nov 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
I can't think of any editor whose last few years ran headlong into the financial collapse of the newspaper industry... More
News worth paying for
Looking for profit in public-interest news
By Dean Starkman Dec 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Now that the confetti and campaign corks had been swept up after news leaked that The Washington Post was probably... More
Patent Trolls 4 News Paywalls
Nathan Myhrvold makes some common errors about the newspaper industry
By Ryan Chittum Jan 23, 2012 at 05:30 PM
As far as voices of support go, the news business probably wishes it could do better than a patent troll... More
Paywall illogic
Steve Buttry distorts our arguments—and the evidence
By Ryan Chittum Dec 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Followers of the hot ‘n heavy paywall debate—all seven of you—may find it hard to believe, but there’s plenty of... More
Paywall Postscript
What have your experiences of the NYT paywall been?
By The Editors Apr 5, 2011 at 01:05 PM
The New York Times’s metered paywall has been in effect since March 28, and reactions to the plan have varied... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
