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Murdoch: online news to be smaller and less important

In case you were in some doubt regarding the future for online news James Murdoch is telling it straight. He says that online news will in the future have a smaller audience, be less important (than broadcast) and come with a premium price tag. James...

Posted Nov 20 2009, 10:52 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Rupert Murdoch, journalism, paid content, pay walls, James Murdoch, Media Week

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Times editor (UK) gives details on paid content plans

James Harding, the editor of The Times, has revealed a few details about the paper's plan to charge for content as part of Rupert Murdoch's pay wall ambitions. According to MediaGuardian and Press Gazette , Harding told the Society of Editors...

Posted Nov 17 2009, 12:36 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, The Sunday Times, The Times, paid content, pay walls

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Jeremy Clarkson a possible top earner as people vote for micropayments over subs (Emap?)

People have said they would be willing to pay small amounts for online content (we're talking 2p to 20p), which is very encouraging. And good news for Rupert Murdoch as Jeremy Clarkson tops the list of online columnists. Having read this research...

Posted Nov 12 2009, 10:33 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 14 comment(s)

Filed under: Emap, Google, Rupert Murdoch, Jeremy Clarkson, paid content

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Is Murdoch really plannng a Google free future?

Rupert Murdoch has taken time out to tell Sky News Australia why he might ban his content from Google and why he'd rather have fewer visitors coming to his (paid for) websites (not to mention a quick bash at the thieving BBC). In an interview with...

Posted Nov 09 2009, 12:40 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 7 comment(s)

Filed under: BBC, Rupert Murdoch, paid content, pay walls, Sky News Australia

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More pay walls – Emap makes its pitch/readers respond

There are some interesting comments cropping up on Retail Week's blog about its plan to charge readers £150 and put some online content behind a pay wall on November 13. In the blog post Retail Week editor Tim Danaher makes his pitch to the magazine...

Posted Nov 06 2009, 01:42 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Emap, Rupert Murdoch, paid content, UBM, Centaur

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Murdoch stalls on the road to paid content/NMA raise pay wall

First it was the New York Times and now Rupert Murdoch has hinted that News Corporation may not hit its year end deadline to implement paid content. Murdoch, who owns the Times and the Sun, Wall Street Journal and New York Post (what a great front page;...

Posted Nov 05 2009, 10:06 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Emap, Rupert Murdoch, The Sun, The Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, paid content, NMA, Centaur, pay walls, Yankees

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Mass layoffs begin at Time Inc/Murdoch hires (plans newspaper war)

We've already seen big cuts this year at Conde Nast now it is the turn of IPC Media parent Time Inc, which is set to announce as many as 500 job cuts today. The New York Times reports that the layoffs begun yesterday at Time Inc when 15 to 20 sales...

Posted Nov 04 2009, 09:23 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Conde Nast, IPC, Rupert Murdoch, Time Warner, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, World Series, AOL, Time, Seattle Times, Time Inc, San Francisco Chronicle, Detroit Free Press, Fortune, New York Yankees, Sports Illustrated, Real Simple, Instyle, Philadelphia Phillies

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Paid content: what we've learnt

Paidcontent's survey this week looking at what people will pay for content online has been useful in reminding us about a lot of stuff we already knew, but chiefly that the print and online products are very closely (and need to be) related. In its...

Posted Sep 24 2009, 10:43 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Google, Rupert Murdoch, paid content, Steve Brill, The Star Tribune, Zuora

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FT: people will pay for general news content

There is a longish piece in the New York Times over the weekend looking at The Financial Times and its paid content strategy. The paper quotes John Ridding, the chief executive of the FT, insisting that people will pay for general news content. It's...

Posted Aug 17 2009, 11:54 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Financial Times, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Guardian Media Group

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Big and bold Murdoch takes the paid content gamble

Huge sigh of relief has been breathed around the world this morning by newspaper executives everywhere who were all waiting for someone to make the first move and charge for content. Rupert Murdoch has never been a patient man. Murdoch has made the first...

Posted Aug 06 2009, 09:35 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 8 comment(s)

Filed under: Financial Times, Rupert Murdoch, The Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, paid content, the new yok times, The Times The Sun, the New York Post

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Welcome to planet FT or how you can charge for content like the pink'un

Financial Times editor Lionel Barber has been telling Channel 4 News why news organisations have to act now and charge for online content and how they can do it like the FT. Not sure about that one. Timing is everything and it's striking that the...

Posted Aug 04 2009, 04:06 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Financial Times, Rupert Murdoch, The Observer, Wall Street Journal, Guardian Media Group

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Free content – an accidental historical moment

He's not the first to say it, but Barry Diller described the moment when news organisations decided to give content away as one of those "accidental historical" moments. He was talking at the time about his support for paid content. An accidental...

Posted Jun 11 2009, 03:52 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, paid content, Barry Diller

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News Corp talks paid content – content bundling

News Corporation's new digital boss Jonathan Miller has been banging the paid content drum. His spin was "content bundling" kind of like the charging equivalent of pick 'n' mix. Speaking in New York at the Hollywood Reporter's...

Posted Jun 04 2009, 11:52 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Rupert Murdoch, US media, paid content, Hulu, New Yok Post, Jonathan Miller

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Paid-for content – an impossible dream?

The PaidContent blog has a good piece today on why the idea of charging for content might be a flight of fancy and impossible to implement after years of free access. The post comes in a week that two media figures have been talking paid content and raising...

Posted May 08 2009, 09:56 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 8 comment(s)

Filed under: Financial Times, Rupert Murdoch, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Kindle, paid content, e-reader

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Groundswell around newspaper e-readers growing

I blogged last week asking whether there was a future for e-papers/e-readers and into my in-box pops an email from the Wall Street Journal announcing new e-reader plans. The Wall Street Journal Europe has launched an e-Paper service apparently: "the...

Posted Apr 08 2009, 02:51 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 6 comment(s)

Filed under: Financial Times, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, Amazon, Kindle, Gannett, Detroit Free Press, MediaNews Group, Detroit News, e-reader, USA Today, Plastic Logic

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Murdoch: online news to be smaller and less important

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Times editor (UK) gives details on paid content plans

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Jeremy Clarkson a possible top earner as people vote for micropayments over subs (Emap?)

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Is Murdoch really plannng a Google free future?

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More pay walls – Emap makes its pitch/readers respond

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Murdoch stalls on the road to paid content/NMA raise pay wall

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Mass layoffs begin at Time Inc/Murdoch hires (plans newspaper war)

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Paid content: what we've learnt

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FT: people will pay for general news content

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Big and bold Murdoch takes the paid content gamble

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Welcome to planet FT or how you can charge for content like the pink'un

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Free content – an accidental historical moment

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News Corp talks paid content – content bundling

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Paid-for content – an impossible dream?

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Groundswell around newspaper e-readers growing