WaPo will, finally, charge online March 18, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Anti-paywall forces routed in the US; attention shifts to Kings Cross
Audit Notes: paywall time machine, Times-Picayune, Elizabeth Warren March 8, 2013 By Ryan Chittum What digital subscriptions could have done for newspapers a decade ago
Content economics, part 2: payments March 5, 2013 By Felix Salmon How and why people fork over money for media
Audit Notes: NYT softballs, ad inventory, the future of the LAT March 4, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Justice Department’s Lanny Breuer gets another weak exit interview
Audit Notes: Seattle paywall, private equity taxes, mortgage security fraud February 25, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Seattle Times will charge online readers beginning next month
An eye on the Times-Picayune‘s numbers February 22, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Some questions about what executives say are positive circulation trends
Content economics, part 1: advertising February 22, 2013 By Felix Salmon The dismal state of ads in online publishing
The Boston Globe, up for sale again February 20, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Times goes all in on the Times
Audit Notes: The FT does labor reporting, minimum wage, OC Register February 13, 2013 By Ryan Chittum An excellent look inside an Amazon warehouse in the UK
The NYT’s newspaper industry rarity: growth (UPDATED) February 12, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Its circulation strategy, led by the paywall, more than offsets ad losses in 2012
Pew identifies four profitable newspapers February 11, 2013 By Hazel Sheffield The papers buck national trends with four different emphases
Longform meltdown (cont.) January 22, 2013 By Dean Starkman Reaction to a post on the decline of longform stories at major papers
Major papers’ longform meltdown January 17, 2013 By Dean Starkman Stories longer than 2,000 words down 86 percent at the LAT since 2003, 50 percent at WaPo, etc.
Digital First goes the Newhouse route in upstate New York January 17, 2013 By Ryan Chittum In Oneida, the paper moves to three days a week, following the Post-Standard
Audit Notes: WSJ Libor scoop, Business Insider, reader revenue January 11, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Deutsche Bank made big money betting on the rigged rate