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    Articles tagged paywalls (128)

    Ricardo BiltonFebruary 1, 2018
    Learning from the New Yorker, Wired’s new paywall aims to build a more “stable financial future”
    “People who have studied the information age at this point recognize that there were a bunch of problems and side effects to the fact that people weren’t asked to pay for content in the early years of the internet.”
    The Financial Times is giving high-schoolers around the world free access to FT.com
    The New York Times has halved its free monthly articles to 5, its most significant paywall change since 2012
    Laura Hazard OwenJune 29, 2017
    Talking Points Memo doubled its subscribers in a year — now it’s trying to find new extras for them
    “We’ve learned a lot over the last few years about how to construct a business model that allows a substantial but still relatively small news organization to thrive.”
    Ricardo BiltonMay 31, 2017
    The Boston Globe is getting smarter about digital subscriptions — and tightening up its paywall
    “We’ve learned a lot in five years about what the levers are, how we can pull them and what are the tradeoffs. We understand a lot of things better than we used to. The changes are the natural evolution of that understanding.”
    More European newspapers are charging for content online (but there are differences by country)
    Laura Hazard OwenMay 8, 2017
    The Christian Science Monitor’s new paid, daily product is aiming for 10,000 subscribers in a year
    “The Daily is really in the service of this mission of making people more thoughtful, less neurotic, more calm, and seeing the world through the lens of progress.”
    Shan WangDecember 8, 2016
    The Wall Street Journal is confident its “bendier” paywall will draw the paying readers it needs to survive
    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.
    There’s lots of free news online from public media, but it doesn’t seem to discourage paying for other news
    Shan WangJuly 27, 2016
    Paywalls and politics: Independent Russian television station TV Rain turns to subscriptions as its future
    Shifting the focus to digital was hardly just a business decision, though: “Really, this was pretty much the only source that could help us go through.”
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