Independent Launches Pay Service
The Independent, the “independent” newspaper in UK, is launching a subscription/micropayments service, dubbed Independent Portfolio, which w… Read more »
The Independent, the “independent” newspaper in UK, is launching a subscription/micropayments service, dubbed Independent Portfolio, which w… Read more »
The 157-year old Canadian regional newspaper Hamilton Spectator is turning its website into a premium site, starting April 22. “Spectator [p… Read more »
Nando Times, one of the pioneering news websites, will cease to exist within about 90 days, said Christian A. Hendricks, VP of Interactive M… Read more »
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(via MarketingFix): Canadian media company CanWest Global Communications plans to roll out electronic versions of its newspapers with embedd… Read more »
The Sun Herald has started asking users top register before accessing the content. The letter outlines why the move was necessary, though it… Read more »
The Daily Telegraph will launch a digital (PDF) version of its newspaper, in the next couple of months. Of course, newspapers in US have bee… Read more »
Can Online Publishing Attract the E-Generation?: “Web sites and newspapers are designed to be read in different ways, in different situation… Read more »
Swiss Paper Allows Content Payment Through Mobiles: Swiss newspaper Le Temps is to allow its online readers to pay for archived articles usi… Read more »
Boston Herald To Launch a Subscription Scheme for Its Popular Columnists: This has been bit of a holy grail for big newspapers: the ability… Read more »
You better believe it: if you think you were developing a subscription service and writing a “tease” abstract for each story, you may be in… Read more »
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Want The News Now? Then Pay Up: A newspaper in Singapore has done what pundits here in US have only been debating for months and perhaps yea… Read more »
USAToday.com Tests Registration: USAToday.com on Thursday began requiring users to answer three demographic questions to access some stories… Read more »
An interview with Roger Fidler, Director of the Institute for CyberInformation at Kent State University, and an electronic content distribut… Read more »
Online Newspapers Show Little Interest in Innovative Payment Systems (Europe): A detailed story (and a report) the the European content paym… Read more »
“Later this year, the Tribune Company may become the first major chain to dramatically expand its pay-for-content services. Read more »
Gannett’s Online Revenues Increase 27 Percent: Gannett, the publisher of USAToday.com, among 100 other newspaper websites, has generated app… Read more »
South African Newspaper Site Rethinks its Paid Content Strategy: “M&G Online [the online version of the South African paper Mail&Guardian]… Read more »
Web Profits Are Talk of NAA Meeting: “[O]nline news might develop into a model similar to cable television, where users pay for premium cont… Read more »
What Keeps Newspaper.com Execs Awake at Night?: Answers: paid content, of course, among others! A short report from Newspaper Association of… Read more »
Newspaper Digital Units in the Black: A roundup on the revenues for online units of major newspaper chains. Read more »
Newspapers and New Media: Dan Gillmor reports from the Newspaper Association of America’s Connections conference in Orlando, and is a bit di… Read more »
Ukranian Immigrant Newspaper Goes Subscription: Kyiv Post, an English-language weekly aimed mainly at the immigrant Ukranian population in E… Read more »
More Publishers Try All-Paid Web Model: While no U.S. newspaper is yet making a fortune by charging for access to its website, more publishe… Read more »
Canadian Newspaper The Record Goes Subscription, With a Twist: Candian newspaper The Record, out of Kitchener, Ontario, is going subscriptio… Read more »
Washington Post’s Everett Herald Launches Subscription Archives: The Everett [Wash.] Herald has deployed the Clickshare’s transaction platfo… Read more »
The story offers advice to thwe newspaper industry, from newspaper outsiders like CBS MarketWatch, AOL, Internet Broadcasting Systems, and,… Read more »
Web Publishers Describe the Year’s Top Achievements: A good round-up of acheivements of (mainly) newspaper web publishers, including The Adv… Read more »
AOL News Director’s Tips For Newspapers: America Online’s news operations head Gary Kebbel, a former newspaper man, speaks with E&P Online a… Read more »
How FT.com Kept Ad Sales Strong in 2002: ContentBiz does a case study on how FT.com ad sales kept up during 2002. “In the past, advertising… Read more »
Buy the Print Copy to Read the Online Newspaper: The Spanish newspaper on economics, Expansión Directo has a unique code number on its prin… Read more »
Paid Subscription Hasn’t Decreased Visits to ElPais.es: One week after the debut of its charging venture, Spanish newspaper ElPais.es keeps… Read more »
Spanish Paper El Pais Puts Entire Content Behind Subscription Wall: This is perhaps the first and the biggest general-interest paper in Euro… Read more »
A bit late on this one, but worth mentioning since this is perhaps the way for newspapers to go. Green Bay Press-Gazette, the Gannett newspa… Read more »
FT.com, not traditionally known for its sports coverage, has tied up with Sportinglife.com. The sports site, which was set up by the Press A… Read more »
Jerusalem Post’s Online Subscription Efforts: JPost.com, the online edition of Jerusalem Post, has been an innovator in reaching global audi… Read more »
Smaller U.S. Newspapers May be Late in the Online Game, But Are Keen to Experiment: Small U.S. dailies and community weeklies have embraced… Read more »
Spanish newspaper Gets 1000 Subscribers in 20 Days: The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has gained 1,000 people to pay for some of its online con… Read more »
SCMP.com, the Internet edition of South China Morning Post, and FT.com, Financial Times’ online operation, have signed an agreement to cross… Read more »
Following CNN.com’s and ABCNews.com’s lead, LATimes.com has launched a personalized subscription news ticker service called “NewsDirect”. Ne… Read more »
Akron Beacon Journal Launches Digital Edition: The Akron Beacon Journal has launched a digital edition of its newspaper, using Adobe Acrobat… Read more »
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