Earlier this year, the WSJ owner sued Perplexity for failing to properly license its content. Now its research tool Factiva has negotiated its own AI licensing deals.
“We don’t have to ask you anything. We just know, by virtue of you being a Journal reader, what you’d like to read and what you should read. You don’t have to tell us anything.”
Despite a bad fall shadowed by news about ad revenue declines and layoffs, the Journal has ridden what seems to be a post-election wave of interest in paid media. It’s counting on changes in paywall strategy to bring in even more digital subscribers.
It depends on whether you think the brighter future for news lies in readers or advertisers paying the bills. But then again, an FT sale may involve as much ego as accounting.
Developing reliable technology for digital pay models is more important than ever. But how many newspapers will choose to buy — instead of build — their own paywall?
Ellis, Justin. "Dow Jones cites the hot news doctrine in new lawsuit." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 9 Jan. 2014. Web. 16 Jan. 2025.
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Ellis, J. (2014, Jan. 9). Dow Jones cites the hot news doctrine in new lawsuit. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved January 16, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/01/dow-jones-cites-the-hot-news-doctrine-in-new-lawsuit/
Chicago
Ellis, Justin. "Dow Jones cites the hot news doctrine in new lawsuit." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 9, 2014. Accessed January 16, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/01/dow-jones-cites-the-hot-news-doctrine-in-new-lawsuit/.
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