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“Don’t Call it a Paywall”
A panel discussion with NYT’s Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and Janet Robinson
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 6, 2011 at 12:05 PM
On Tuesday night, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and New York Times Company president and CEO Janet Robinson... More
New York Times paywall growth slows
But it remains to be seen whether that’s a one-quarter blip or the new normal
By Ryan Chittum Apr 26, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The torrid growth in digital-only subscribers to The New York Times slowed sharply in the first quarter. Worse, advertising fell... More
Newsweek and the (relative) health of print mags
Not all is dark for the industry
By Ryan Chittum Oct 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
News that Newsweek is exiting print was hardly surprising coming two years after the Washington Post Company unloaded it for... More
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
A Tale of Two Paywalls
One goes up, the other comes down
By Alysia Santo Aug 9, 2011 at 05:41 PM
In Honolulu, the Civil Beat, a subscription-based online news site, has been drawing a line in the white hot Hawaiian... More
All You Can Eat Magazines
Ken Doctor reports on a promising venture from five major publishers
By Ryan Chittum Apr 4, 2012 at 07:51 PM
Ken Doctor has a very interesting report for the Nieman Journalism Lab on the new consortium called Next Issue Media... More
Andrew Sullivan’s bold experiment
And how to think about it
By Dean Starkman Jan 3, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The great journalism paywall debate has picked up steam lately as more newspapers move away from the idea of giving... More
Audit notes: Blodget’s anonymous Zuck fans, Ongo no-go, social news apps
New York cover story dispenses with named sources
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2012 at 02:12 AM
Here's the sourcing in Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget's New York cover story on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "a colleague... More
Audit Notes: Daisey vs. Pogue, American Banker, LAT Paywall
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2012 at 08:37 PM
Mike Daisey, of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and the recent This American Life exposé of Apple's outsourced... More
Audit Notes: French Capital, French Economists, Hulu’s Paywall
By Ryan Chittum Apr 18, 2012 at 02:21 AM
Bloomberg's Mark Whitehouse is good to report that as the Eurocrisis flares again, with Spain in the spotlight now, investors... More
Audit Notes: Newsstand Success, Paywalls and Tacos, WSJ on Debt Collectors
By Ryan Chittum Dec 23, 2011 at 05:05 PM
How much has Apple's Newsstand increased sales of magazine apps. It's hard to say, but Peter Kafka posts a chart... More
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 May 24, 2012 at 12:21 AM
If ever a town needed a newspaper, it's New Orleans. But David Carr reports that Newhouse is preparing big layoffs... More
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 Sep 28, 2012 at 12:46 AM
The New York Times Company has sold its stake in the Indeed.com jobs site for $100 million profit, which ain't... More
Audit Notes: Paying for Newspapers Edition
By Ryan Chittum Oct 20, 2011 at 10:26 PM
I may have spoken too soon when I said to expect The New York Times's paid subscription growth rate to... More
Audit Notes: Paywalls Paying Off, Digital Privacy, Murdoch
By Ryan Chittum Feb 29, 2012 at 07:54 PM
As Warren Buffett knows, when you give away your product online, it undermines the one you charge good money for... More
Audit Notes: seaside villas, paywall past, Citi fraud
By Ryan Chittum Jun 5, 2012 at 12:30 AM
Line of the day goes to Bloomberg News for this gem from Robert Benmosche, CEO of government-owned AIG (emphasis mine):... More
Audit Notes: Tabloid Chutzpah, Paywall Performance, The Fed and Dividends
By Ryan Chittum Mar 8, 2012 at 08:44 PM
Rebekah Brooks, former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK tabloids, which were rogue even by the viciously sensationalist standards of that... More
David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on the Times-Picayune cuts
By David Simon May 25, 2012 at 11:09 AM
It's grievous what is happening to regional newspapers, especially. But the whole industry will continue to collapse until everyone swallows... More
How the NYT Paywall Is Working
By Felix Salmon Aug 15, 2011 at 02:22 PM
When I wrote about the success of the NYT paywall last month, I got a lot of pushback in... More
Nor’easter blows Newsday’s paywall down
Long Island and Westchester/Rockland editions providing free access
By Sara Morrison Nov 6, 2012 at 05:30 PM
The paywall at Newsday — both its Long Island and Westchester/Rockland versions — has come down … for now. According... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
