All entries tagged: family ownership

Charging (a lot!) for news online: The Newport Daily News’ new experiment with paid content

The Newport Daily News kept waiting for someone else to figure out how to make money giving away news online. But with no obvious solution in sight, its leaders have decided to try an answer of their own: charging for access to the news.
Lots of newspapers are considering similar options. What makes Newport different is [...]

51 comments | Posted by Edward J. Delaney | June 8, 2009 | 10:03 am

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Lab Book Club: The role of prestige and personality in selling the news

We’re up to Chapter 6 in our video interview with Duke economist James Hamilton. He’s the author of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection, All the News That’s Fit to Sell. In this chapter, Jay talks about the role prestige and personality play in how media is produced and consumed. Among the topics:
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1 comment | Posted by Joshua Benton | February 24, 2009 | 8:42 am

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