The publisher of The Scotsman newspaper, Johnston Press, is reported to be considering erecting a pay wall. According to a report on Holdthefrontpage Johnston Press, which also owns The Yorkshire Post and Lancashire Evening Post, is to introduce paid-for access to some of its local websites from next...
Google insists it is not worried about News Corporation pulling its content, but as two more news groups start talking about doing the same the move towards paid content or pay walls means for certain that others will follow suit. And that could change things Media News Group and A.H. Belo have added...
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 conference in Stanstead, Essex, that the paper would...
The story that won't seem to lie down and die quietly rumbles on as News Corp desperately continues to try to lead their fellow publishers into pay-for-content models. If they could get everyone to follow suit, this strategy may well work - hence James Murdoch's recent vitriolic attack on the...
No one thing killed TheLondonPaper, but one of my first thoughts on hearing the sad news that TheLondonPaper was to close was is this part of Rupert Murdoch's paid content strategy? The facts are pretty simple: London is the most competitive newspaper market in the world and NI Free Newspapers, which...
The big story of last week was News Corporation's eye-watering losses , although much of the subsequent ongoing chatter and debate was about the remark Rupert Murdoch made about New Corp's intention to start charging for content. He's been accused of anything from wishful-thinking, right...
There's carnage at MySpace. Almost 800 jobs cut within a week and the closed sign is being hung up around the world. It looks like today we are seeing the social media map being reshaped. Last week MySpace laid off 420 staff in its US offices. Today it has cut a further 300 internationally and is...
Of course, internet access for all is really super. Hurrah. But the failure and misjudgement by Digital Britain on other big questions leave me totally underwhelmed. There's no progress on a Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide deal and the easy option of top slicing the BBC licence fee is a huge mistake...
There is speculation on Valley Wag about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos being in talks with Twitter. He's already an investor, but is Amazon looking to a future that might include buying into the real time web? The Gawker Media blog says it has heard whispers that Amazon.com is talking to Twitter about buying...
Rupert Murdoch has been putting the doomsayers of the newspaper industry in their place. The future he says is still bright, but it is in case you were in any doubt by now definitely online. In a speech he has knocked the doomsayers who are predicting the internet will kill off newspapers. He calls them...
