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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 Boston Globe, up for sale again
The Times goes all in on the Times
By Ryan Chittum Feb 20, 2013 at 05:35 PM
Back in 1993, The New York Times Company bought the Globe for about $1.8 billion (adjusted for inflation). Four years... 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: NYT softballs, ad inventory, the future of the LAT
The Justice Department’s Lanny Breuer gets another weak exit interview
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2013 at 06:50 AM
How many parting kisses can outgoing senior administration officials collect from the press? Lanny Breuer, already given the puff treatment... 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: paywall time machine, Times-Picayune, Elizabeth Warren
What digital subscriptions could have done for newspapers a decade ago
By Ryan Chittum Mar 8, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Ken Doctor writes a fantastic piece for Nieman Lab on charging for news. He notes that leaky paywalls are working... More
Audit Notes: Seattle paywall, private equity taxes, mortgage security fraud
The Seattle Times will charge online readers beginning next month
By Ryan Chittum Feb 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle Times is the latest paper to join the paywall movement. It looks like it's basically copying The New... More
Audit Notes: Student loan profits, paywall incentives, postal banking
The Huffington Post on a government bonanza
By Ryan Chittum May 15, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour comes up with a great angle on news that the Education Department expects to make... More
Audit Notes: The paywall problem, Thatcherism, Googlebots
Keeping out the youth of America
By Ryan Chittum Apr 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Alan Mutter has this to say about the pitfalls of paywalls: The case for paywalls would seem to be compelling:... 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
Content economics, part 2: payments
How and why people fork over money for media
By Felix Salmon Mar 5, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Apologies for the delay between part 1 and this: I wanted to wait until Amanda Palmer's TED talk appeared... 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
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.
