According to Press+ data, the average price of a monthly digital subscription is now $9.26 — up from $6.85 at the beginning of 2012. Publishers are also offering fewer articles for free before a user hits a paywall. Read more »
Paywall startup Tinypass, which is based in New York City and works with small digital publishers, is expanding metering options to its users. Read more »
Though the U.S. travel industry brings in $2 billion a year and employs 100 million people, Rafat Ali says there’s no one website where industry execs and business travelers can go for information. So he’s launching Skift, a website focused on travel news, data and services. Read more »
The New York Times has been looking for a new CEO since Janet Robinson was forced out seven months ago, and BBC director-general Mark Thompson is said to be in the running for the job. But is he the solution to the newspaper’s problems? Read more »
The Oracle of Omaha acquired his hometown newspaper in January and just snapped up dozens more in a $142 million deal. This is supposed to be the fastest declining industry in America. What is Warren Buffett up to? Read more »
Earlier this week, the Project on Excellence in Journalism issued a detailed digital revenue study that left out even the most basic details… Read more »
When RR Donnelley bought Journalism Online from Steve Brill, Gordon Grovitz, Leo Hindery, Jr., and their investors last March, I reported th… Read more »
Financial and media news online site network Business Insider has raised $7 million for what founder and editor Henry Blodget says will be a… Read more »
RR Donnelley execs aren’t talking — neither are Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz, at least about deal details — but paidContent has learned… Read more »
That was fast. Just shy of two years after launch, Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery Jr. have sold their “make journalism pay” bus… Read more »
As the NYTimes.com prepares to launch its metered pay model any day now, the topic of paywalls is something every media organization is expl… Read more »
Updated: In a doubleheader announcement meant to move the needle on Rupert Murdoch’s ambitious paid content plans, News Corp has acquired th… Read more »
Observers aren’t the only ones hearing more about Journalism Online and its plans for Press+ today. The company’s affiliates — publishers w… Read more »
Finally some clarity after months of mystery about possible affiliates and constant questions about whether Journalism Online is reality or… Read more »
Updated: BusinessWeek is reporting that former WSJ publisher and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) exec Gordon Crovitz is “teaming” with ZelnickMedia in… Read more »
Journalism Online says companies representing more than 1,000 newspapers, magazines and online media outlets have signed letters of intent t… Read more »
Journalism Online hasn’t moved beyond letters of intent on the commercial side but the Steve Brill-Gordon Crovitz-Leo Hindery Jr. enterprise… Read more »
Journalism Online, the new make-journalism-pay venture from Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery, has letters of intent from newspape… Read more »
How did Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery, Jr., wind up cofounding a venture to make online journalism pay? Or, in this case, Jour… Read more »
The news business has problems and entrepreneur Steve Brill, former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz and cable guy-turned-invest… Read more »
