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Apparently, People Will Pay for Online Content

By Mark Evans | Published: November 17, 2009
There’s a lot of chatter about a Forrester Research report suggesting that 80% of Internet users in North America won’t pay for online newspaper and magazine content. This bolsters the contention that pay-to-play within the online content world is a non-starter. But what if you flip the Forrester report upside down, and consider the fact 20% [...]
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Rupert Murdoch: The Digital Don Quixote?

By Mark Evans | Published: November 9, 2009
It has been documented to death that the business of journalism is broken but no one has come up with a widely-embraced killer idea to save it. The exception, however, is News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch who has been leading the charge recently about introducing paywalls – something already done at the Wall St. Journal. Now, Murdoch [...]
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Wise Words from Clay Shirky

By Mark Evans | Published: November 7, 2009
If you’re at all interested in the future of newspapers and journalism, check out this GRIT TV interview with Clay Shirky. There is lots of good material here, including Shirky’s contention that we shouldn’t be focused on savings newspapers but, instead, we need to ask whether we can save journalism. GRITtv: Clay Shirky: The Social Media [...]
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Are Newspaper Paywalls Possible? Maybe.

By Mark Evans | Published: September 13, 2009
I finally got around to reading David Simon’s essay in the Columbia Journalism Review about how newspapers, particularly the New York Times and Washington Post, need to erect paywalls to ensure their financial viability. (Note: It’s somewhat ironic that the essay available for free online.) Simon’s argument isn’t new but it does put the spotlight on [...]
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Pay-Per-Play Newspapers Coming Soon

By Mark Evans | Published: August 8, 2009
Maybe I’m alone in the woods but it seems like it’s only a matter of time before newspapers – at least world-class newspapers – start charging for more of their content. Case in point is the Financial Times, which plans to introduce a pay-per-view system for online content next summer, while exploring whether FT.com content [...]
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Can Apple Save Newspapers?

By Mark Evans | Published: August 6, 2009
(Update: The Guardian has a story that the Financial Times will introduce a pay-per-view model next summer, while looking at whether any FT.com should be free.) With Apple apparently scrambling to introduce a tablet computer by early next year, a bigger issue to consider is whether Apple can save the newspaper business much like it has [...]
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