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Investors Snapping Up Daily Papers

Rob Quinn — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:23:04 CST

Despite plunging revenue and circulation figures, plenty of people in America are still buying daily newspapers—lock, stock, and valuable headquarters. Some 71 daily papers were sold last year, and while some investors see buying a paper as a civic duty, others view it as a way to turn a...

New York Times Asks Twitter to Plug Paywall Loophole

Rob Quinn — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:58:49 CDT

The pay barrier for the New York Time s' online content goes up on Monday and the newspaper is scrambling to make it more like a wall and less like a curtain full of holes. Users will be allowed 20 page views a month before the barrier comes down. But...

NY Times Paywall Starts This Month

Matt Cantor — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:54:48 CDT

The New York Times website will start charging customers for unlimited access starting March 28, the newspaper announced . Users will be able to read up to 20 articles for free, but beyond that, they’ll have to pay $15 per month for full access to the site and mobile app. For...

NY Times Paywall Details Leak

Matt Cantor — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:44:17 CST

The New York Times ’ long-expected paywall is due next month, and details are starting to leak out about the plan. Everyone will have limited free access to the site, sources tell the Wall Street Journal , but once users reach that limit, they'll have to pony up. Users can buy...

Paywall Drives Off 98.8% of Times Readers

Kevin Spak — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:34:00 CDT

What has putting up a paywall done for the folks at the Times ? Driven away most of their readers, predictably. Only 150,000 signed up for “Times+” accounts, and only 15,000 of them actually agreed to pay when their free trial ran out, according to an unconfirmed report...

Post Snags 4 Pulitzers, Times 3; Enquirer Shut Out

M. Morris — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:06:46 CDT

The Washington Post won four Pulitzer Prizes today, one more than the archrival New York Times —and four more than the National Enquirer, which entered its coverage of the John Edwards sex scandal . In a breakthrough for online journalism, Sheri Fink of ProPublica won for an investigation of euthanasia at...

News Sites Reconsider Anonymous Comments

Jane Yager — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:11:43 CDT

The anonymous free-for-all that online news commenters have always counted on may not be around for much longer. As anonymous comments come under increasing attack as bastions of "crudity, bigotry, meanness and plain nastiness," as one journalist puts it, many news sites are moving away from the practice, introducing new...

Times Prepares to Charge for Online Access

M. Morris — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:50:29 CST

Two-plus years after making its entire website free, the New York Times is about to roll out a plan that will charge readers for online access. The announcement may come within 2 weeks, but the pay wall won't be in force for several months, New York magazine reports. Rather than...

Google: We Have 'Moral' Duty to Help Journalism

John Johnson — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:31:41 CDT

Google not only wants big news organizations such as the New York Times to survive, it has a "moral responsibility" to help them do so, says CEO Eric Schmidt. He tells Search Engine Land "there will always be a market for people who read the newspaper on a train going...