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Articles tagged digital subscription (24)

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Justin Ellis    May 7, 2013
Publisher Jim Moroney says the paper will be adding a “greatly improved, metered paid-access model that is much more consumer friendly in every way.”
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Mark Coddington    May 3, 2013
Plus: Twitter’s security problem for news orgs, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
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Justin Ellis    March 12, 2013
Politico’s mobile-oriented, subscription-based service has an impressive 96 percent renewal rate. Now they’re starting a quarterly magazine.
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Justin Ellis    February 22, 2013
BostonGlobe.com is increasing subscribers, and Boston.com is finding new ways to make money. But as buyers look at New England institution, how is it juggling its two-brand strategy?
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Justin Ellis    February 12, 2013
The new executive editor of Reuters Digital and ex-Timesman: “I like to think I laid a good groundwork for taking advantage of the tools of technology for being able to exploit smart digital opportunities.”
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Justin Ellis    February 5, 2013
The co-founder of Facebook says the relaunched magazine will need to experiment with how its content is delivered and how they engage with advertisers.
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Justin Ellis    October 16, 2012
“The agencies are increasingly bored with looking at simple readership or circulation numbers. They want the kind of behavioral tracking data that they can get from people like Google.”
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Joshua Benton    October 2, 2012
It’s a bold and potentially cross-platform experiment. But it’s unclear how it can (or why it should) compete with the Times’ better, native iPad app.
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Rex Sorgatz    August 28, 2012
To be sustainable past print’s lifespan, Sorgatz argues, the Times will have to build more meaning and more value into a membership program.
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Justin Ellis    June 14, 2012
The new iPad magazine from the Huffington Post is looking to court a higher-end audience willing to pay for weekly, longform journalism.
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Justin Ellis    May 1, 2012
Out of bankruptcy, Minnesota’s largest newspaper is starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
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Pew says around 150 U.S. dailies have digital subscription models, but AP reports 300 newspapers with paywalls.
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Justin Ellis    March 1, 2012
What does a “membership” program for a newspaper look like, and will readers look at it differently than they would a paywall?