Mallary Jean Tenore
Mar. 11, 2013
7:13 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 5, 2013
12:08 pm
Paywall software provider
Press+ released new data today about the more than 400 publishers who use its service to charge for digital content. (
Poynter uses Press+ to solicit donations.) Overall, publishers are gradually squeezing readers with higher digital subscription prices and fewer free articles per month.
Infographics below, provided by Press+, show the trends. Earlier data from the company showed that
sites producing more content made more money from digital subscriptions.
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Feb. 25, 2013
3:02 pm
Since moving to a reader-funded blog, Andrew Sullivan has collected about $611,000, and he doesn’t want to nag, but…
[A]round 7,000 of you have already clicked on seven read-ons – your total free access every month – and not yet encountered a request to contribute. The next time you do, you will. …
Of course, nagging is an integral part to pay-meters’ success. They wear you down. If your experience online is anything like mine, I tend to ignore the pay-us boxes until they finally get too annoying. At some point, if what I’m reading is worth it, I say to myself: “Screw it. Just get this over with.”
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 25, 2013
9:34 am
The Seattle Times |
MYNorthwest.com
The Seattle Times
will begin a digital-subscription plan in March, Times Executive Editor David Boardman told readers in a column Sunday. The plan resembles The New York Times' paywall -- print subscribers will have full access to the Times' site, and nonsubscribers will be able to access a limited number of articles before hitting the pay gate. There's a digital-only deal for $3.99/week, or for the same price you can get the Sunday paper plus full access. "The reasons for this development are simple," Boardman -- a member of Poynter's National Advisory Board -- writes.
The economics of the news business, and of the newspaper industry in particular, have changed dramatically over the past decade. More people than ever are reading our content in print and digital formats, but our primary source of revenue — advertising — is declining locally and nationally and no longer supports our costs to the degree it once did.
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 20, 2013
12:37 pm
Connecticut Newsroom |
LA Observed |
New Haven Register
The Hartford Courant has a new site called
CourantPlus. Matt DeRienzo, group editor of Journal Register Company's Connecticut papers,
calls it a paywall. Print subscribers, he reports, received a postcard offering free access to the site through March 17.
"The Hartford Courant has not implemented a pay-wall," Courant Publisher Rich Graziano tells Poynter in an email. "What Mr. DeRienzo is referencing is market research."
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Carlie Kollath Wells
Feb. 20, 2013
7:44 am
Four top publishers Tuesday reaffirmed their commitment to print and discussed revenue ideas for bolstering their products.
The discussion was part of an executive roundtable at the
Key Executives Mega Conference in New Orleans.
The publishers of the Star Tribune Media Co., USA Today, The Omaha World-Herald and The Dallas Morning News talked about the revenue opportunities for their content.
For Jim Moroney at The Dallas Morning News, his company is converting the story archives into revenue through content marketing. Companies in the Dallas area are in need of content to populate company newsletters, websites and blogs, and the paper is making its archives available for customers of its digital agency. Clients’ monthly bills average $4,000 a month for services that include access to the archives.
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Andrew Beaujon and Julie Moos
Feb. 8, 2013
4:01 pm
The New York Times will drop its paywall tonight to provide unlimited, free access as readers seek information about
the massive winter storm hitting New York and the northeast.
"We're planning to drop the meter at 6 tonight & re-evaluate the situation tomorrow evening," said Vice President of Corporate Communications Eileen Murphy by email.
The Wall Street Journal is dropping its paywall as well, it says in an email:
Due to anticipated delivery disruptions because of the winter storm, The Wall Street Journal will be dropping its paywall beginning tonight at midnight through the weekend.
The Times plans to reinstate its paywall at 6 p.m. Saturday, Murphy said by email.
The WSJ and Times
dropped their paywalls during Hurricane Sandy too.
The Times remained free for five days due to the storm.
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 8, 2013
10:16 am
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Rick Edmonds
Feb. 7, 2013
11:07 am
The New York Times has analyzed its digital-only subscriber base and found that nearly two-thirds are “entirely new” customers. Gannett reported essentially the same split in its full-year earnings report earlier this week.
In response to my question, corporate communications … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 5, 2013
9:16 am
News & Tech |
Nieman
The Orange County Register is
preparing to launch a metered paywall this year, News & Tech reports. New Register owner Aaron Kushner
has made no secret of his plans to charge for online access to the paper, but stories about his stewardship so far have
focused mostly on his "print-first" strategy -- adding journalists, print editions and forging closer ties between community organizations and the printed newspaper.
To make money on those investments in an age of declining print advertising, Kushner
needs to bring in more money from circulation, Ken Doctor wrote last week. The Register, he said, has to install a gate to retain readers who may balk at increased subscription prices:
Once [the price of a print sub] goes up, the Register’s subscribers will no longer have the choice of dropping their subscriptions in favor of free digital. That loophole will be closed — and that supports the higher prices.
Other newspapers are readying paywalls, using the same company as the Register, News & Tech reports, including The (Norfolk, Va.) Virginian-Pilot and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Related:
The case for paywalls: Gannett gains while Digital First experiments (Poynter) |
"I can’t work on theory alone. I have to try paywalls," Digital First CEO John Paton writes (Digital First) |
Orange County Register launches "We Are Here in the Service of Orange County" brand campaign
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