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 Murdoch, who is chief executive of News Corporation...
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...
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 Murdoch is no doubt on the blower to Google's...
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 Sky News Australia News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch...
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 readers telling them about Emap's plans to...
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; great game), told reporters that he can not promise...
This week is officially deemed paid content week (again), but yesterday unlike most weeks things happened. The New York Times said it was struggling to decide; Emap came out and (boldly) said it's charging £150; and a VC guy said newspapers need less than 5% of customers to pay. Bonus. Venture capitalist...
Well, it looks like they're going to give it a go. With display ad revenues not enough to make substantial, or indeed any, profit, according to a survey from the Association of Online Publishers, around 70% of online publishers in the newspaper, magazine or TV industries will pay for content online...
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 latest post paidContent:UK is writing about how...