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Europe is a patchwork of dozens of different languages, and news media now see this as an opportunity. They are banding together to charge for internet access to local-language products. Dutch and Flemish publishers are the latest in Europe to consider erecting a shared paywall around content in their languages, Paid Content reports. The concept is […]
Read More »Gumersindo Lafuente of El Pais (photo by James Breiner Versión en español aquí. The culture war of print vs. digital rages on and continues to block the transformation of the newspaper industry. An incident at Spain’s most prestigious daily and a study of 38 U.S. newspapers both made this clearer recently. At El Pais in […]
Read More »A new Facebook app launched by The Guardian in England could signal a major challenge to Google’s dominance of referral traffic to news websites. Google used to drive 40 percent of The Guardian’s traffic, but social networks referred more than search several times in February, said Tanya Cordrey, director of digital development at Guardian News […]
Read More »Crap Detector Part II: Mr. Daisey’s Apple Factory A digital news organization has to differentiate itself from the mass of online competitors vying for people’s attention. The best way is to be credible, reliable and trustworthy. Credibility is the most valuable asset of a news organization. It attracts a community whose members can collectively support […]
Read More »Crap detector Part I: Credibility as business model A few weeks ago I listened to a podcast of “This American Life” called “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” which was the story of a technology geek who goes to China to see where his iPhone was made. In the course of the story, the narrator, […]
Read More »The digital publishing industry will hit a significant milestone this year when for the first time it will book more ad revenue than all print newspapers and magazines. The really bad news for print media, even those with robust web operations, is that most of the revenue is going to non-print publishers such as Google, […]
Read More »Gannett’s announcement that it will establish paywalls at its 80 community newspapers is the latest sign that the newspaper industry believes it has found practical technology to charge for its content. But these are not really solutions so much as experiments. Every newspaper will have to test reader response to the various subscription offers and adjust […]
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