July is looking like a big month for pay walls, with The Times and Sunday Times erecting on Friday even bigger barriers than Gannett installed Thursday on three of its newspapers sites. 

Steve Outing minces no words in his … Read more

Gannett stepped into the world of paid content today with what it termed “a small-scale test” at the Tallahassee Democrat, The Greenville (S.C.) News and The (St. George, Utah) Spectrum.

The fee for online-only is $9.95 a month; … Read more

As some news organizations prepare to kick off their much-anticipated experiments with paid content, others are focused on ways of hanging onto revenue they’re already collecting.

A new report sponsored by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN-IFRA) tracks a range … Read more

I’ve just started digging into Clay Shirky’s latest book, “Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age,” published Thursday by The Penguin Press.

Shirky’s thesis: Social media enables and encourages us to make much more creative and generous … Read more

The Journalism that Matters conference handed TIME magazine the sort of kicker to its “Assignment Detroit Project” Sunday that newsmagazines usually can only dream of.

Three conference participants — Detroiters Juanita Anderson, Alicia Buggs and Arthur Leggett … Read more

The biggest hurdle facing local online advertising, as Mark Potts and others have framed the problem, is the challenge of keeping rates low enough to attract advertisers pursuing small audiences — but high enough to generate sufficient return.

This … Read more

In some ways, it seems like a no-brainer: Encourage consumer engagement with advertising by giving users a stake in deciding how the revenue gets spent.

As far as I can tell, though, Spot.Us is breaking some new ground with the … Read more

If you’re freelancing these days by choice or by circumstance, there’s a matchmaker looking for you in L.A.

The Journalism Shop, launched last summer by two former L.A. Times staffers as a service for former colleagues at the paper, … Read more

In the days since the New York Times crowned Politico reporter Mike Allen “THE MAN THE WHITE HOUSE WAKES UP TO,” there’s been endless debate about just how much influence he wields or whether his considerable talents might … Read more

Xconomy is a journalism startup with a look and feel that’s part trade pub, part community blog and part old-fashioned news wire.

Focused on coverage of high-tech innovation, the site was launched in Boston in 2007 and has added editions … Read more