Grief and grievances at The Plain Dealer February 13, 2014 By Anna Clark Advance’s paper in Cleveland is embroiled in a labor dispute as it charts a new digital path
The OC Register‘s expansion reverses January 17, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Trouble for Aaron Kushner’s contrarian bet in Southern California
Audit Notes: Student loan profits, paywall incentives, postal banking May 15, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Huffington Post on a government bonanza
Paywalls did not cause the fall of WSJ longform April 17, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Atlantic‘s Alexis Madrigal misses the Murdoch
Audit Notes: The paywall problem, Thatcherism, Googlebots April 11, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Keeping out the youth of America
Paywalls rise March 28, 2013 By Felix Salmon Breaking out sticks as well as carrots to get readers to pay
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
The Boston Globe, up for sale again February 20, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Times goes all in on the Times
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
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
Best of 2012: Ryan Chittum December 28, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Audit’s deputy editor picks his favorite posts of the year
Paywall illogic December 13, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Steve Buttry distorts our arguments—and the evidence
Jim Tankersley joins The Washington Post December 7, 2012 By Greg Marx A good hire bolsters an already strong economic policy team
Audit Notes: paying for news edition December 5, 2012 By Ryan Chittum NYT cuts would surely have been much worse without its paywall
The impossibility of tablet-native journalism December 3, 2012 By Felix Salmon Why Murdoch’s The Daily didn’t make it
Anti-paywall dead-enders December 3, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Why worry about evidence when you can argue against straw men?
The Washington Post needs a paywall—now November 26, 2012 By Dean Starkman A strategic error needs to be reversed, stat
Marcus Brauchli’s impossible task November 15, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Post‘s ultimate problem is the business side, not the newsroom
Paywalls are a means, not an end November 7, 2012 By Dean Starkman A Toronto Star columnist’s belligerence gets me thinking
The paywall prevents a deeper downturn at the NYT October 26, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Digital subs keep a weak earnings report from turning into a disastrous one
Journal Register opens the kimono a bit September 12, 2012 By Ryan Chittum CEO John Paton gives us some hard numbers
Journal Register, future-of-news star, is bankrupt again September 6, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Takeaways for the newspaper business
Digital goes first at the FT (Updated) July 30, 2012 By Dean Starkman The Financial Times now has more digital subscribers than print ones; running the numbers
How David Simon is wrong about paywalls June 5, 2012 By Howard Owens Let me count the ways. Ten, in fact.