Dear Rupert: Before Putting Up A Paywall, It Helps To Have Your Staff Check...
As you know by now, Rupert Murdoch’s The Times (of London) has kicked off its paywall experiment, with an editor there claiming that news publications that don’t put up a paywall will go out of...
View ArticleEarly Indications Say Paywall For The Times Is A Dreadful Failure
Well, this will hardly surprise anyone, but as we predicted, Rupert Murdoch’s new paywall for the Times is not looking so hot right now. Of course, there are no official stats (in part because Murdoch...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch's Paywall Disaster: Readers, Advertisers, Journalists &...
We had already seen the early indications that Rupert Murdoch’s paywalls from The Times and The Sunday Times in the UK were a dismal failure, but as more information gets leaked about how the paywalls...
View ArticleMurdoch's Paywall Numbers Sound Better Than They Really Are
Well, after lots of speculation, News Corp. is finally releasing some numbers on how the paywall is going for The Times and The Sunday Times — of course, spinning them to sound positive. However, the...
View ArticleNews Corp. Claims 79,000 Subscribers To Its Paywall For The Times
Back in November when News Corp. released some subscription info for its paywall for The Times/Sunday Times (publications which it walled off behind a complete paywall), the details were really...
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