Tuesday Q&A: CEO Baba Shetty talks Newsweek’s relaunch, user-first design,...
A brand guru. That’s what they called Baba Shetty when he was hired away from advertising agency Hill Holliday by The Daily Beast to be the new CEO of The Newsweek Daily Beast Company. Less than a...
View ArticleThe New York Times drops its mobile-app meter from 3 articles a day to 10 a...
Last summer, The New York Times brought its mobile apps more in line with the rest of the company’s digital offerings by creating a meter that limited the number of free stories to three a day. Today,...
View ArticleBostonGlobe.com is moving to a metered paywall
That’s one of the takeaways from this long profile of the John Henry-era Globe by Jason Schwartz in Boston Magazine. The Globe famously split its web presence in 2011 into a completely free Boston.com...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of Newsweek’s pricey relaunch
Maybe the third time is the charm. Three years before Don Graham and Jeff Bezos talked about selling and buying The Washington Post, the Graham family bid goodbye to its second favorite son, Newsweek....
View ArticleWhat’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: How Facebook rumors spread,...
Editor’s note: There’s a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers? Our friends at Journalist’s Resource, that’s...
View ArticleIf my newspaper puts up a metered paywall, how many people will pay? Here’s...
So your newspaper is thinking about putting up a metered paywall. What kind of results can you expect? The answer will depend on a lot of factors — the makeup of your audience, how tight or loose you...
View ArticleWhat comes after the metered paywall?
Sandy MacLeod, VP of consumer marketing and strategy at The Toronto Star, writes in a piece for INMA about where paywalls are headed. It’s unclear! But he sees the meter petering out (emphasis mine):...
View ArticleHow The Irish Times developed its new (very relaxed) metered paywall
DUBLIN — On February 23, The Irish Times erected a metered paywall on its website, making it the first major daily Irish newspaper to do so. One of the areas where The Irish Times is considering...
View ArticleThe Winnipeg Free Press is launching a paywall that lets readers pay by the...
It’s an idea that’s been discussed around the news business for years: an iTunes for news. Might readers be willing to pay for news by the article, through micropayments, much as music listeners began...
View ArticleSix weeks into its micropayment strategy, The Winnipeg Free Press preps for a...
Fair or not, Winnipeggers have a reputation for being frugal. So when the hometown Winnipeg Free Press introduced a paywall this spring that included a micropayment system that let readers request a...
View ArticleTribune Publishing will be moving all of its newspapers to a metered paywall...
Newspapers across the country are still tinkering to find the right digital paywall model. Today, Tribune Publishing — embattled owner of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun,...
View ArticleThe average price for a digital newspaper subscription: $3.11 a week
A new report from the American Press Institute looks at digital subscription adoption at newspapers across the U.S. The report’s author, API research fellow Alex T. Williams, examined 98 papers; of...
View ArticleThe FT is launching a new analytics tool to make metrics more understandable...
The Financial Times on Thursday launched a new newsroom analytics tool that’s meant to make audience data more accessible to its journalists. The tool, called Lantern, is an attempt to help the FT’s...
View ArticleExpanding Apple Pay to websites could help solve a problem for news orgs...
Apple Pay — the easy iOS payment method, heretofore used mostly in checkout lines at places like Whole Foods and Walgreens — is coming to websites, Recode reports: Apple has been telling potential...
View ArticleDie Welt’s analytics system de-emphasizes clicks and demystifies what it...
German daily Die Welt’s internal grading system for its online articles sounds a little nerve-wracking. All published pieces are assigned a single score made up of five components and ranked; then a...
View ArticleThe Washington Post is testing out a few new hurdles for non-paying online...
Even as it boasts of record traffic, The Washington Post is apparently looking at ways to make it a little more difficult for people to read its journalism for free. Numerous social media users are...
View ArticleHere are 6 reasons why newspapers have dropped their paywalls
The New York Times launched its metered paywall in 2011. Since then, newspapers across the United States have followed the Times’ lead by introducing their own digital subscription programs. Of the 98...
View ArticleThe nonprofit Austin Monitor is trying to find the sweet spot for hyperlocal...
Publisher Mike Kanin and editor-in-chief Elizabeth Pagano, the only two full-time employees at the hyperlocal Texas capital news site the Austin Monitor, come back to one word when describing the site:...
View ArticleThe Telegraph replaces its metered paywall, first launched in 2013, with a...
The Telegraph was an early paywall adopter among British general interest newspapers, launching a metered one in early 2013 that allowed non-paying visitors to read 20 stories per month for free. It...
View ArticleSlate launches a metered paywall to draw more membership revenue from...
A publication’s paying subscribers may be just a sliver of the “monthly uniques” touted on press releases, but they’re a critically important one. The monthly or annual charges on their credit cards...
View ArticleFor its must-read coronavirus coverage, The Atlantic is rewarded with a huge...
The Atlantic had a very good March. In an email to his staff, editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced: We have never, in the 163-year history of this magazine, had an audience like we had in March:...
View ArticleThe Brown Institute’s Local News Lab is developing “smart paywalls” for local...
Paywalls are nothing new. But using advances in machine learning to make paywalls “smarter” could help resource-strapped local newsrooms up reader engagement — and in turn, hopefully revenue. That’s...
View ArticleThe Austin American-Statesman will drop its metered paywall and allow...
The Austin American-Statesman will remove its monthly article limit for nonsubscribers, its editor announced. Readers “who aren’t yet subscribers” of statesman.com and hookem.com will no longer be...
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