Survey: Readers don’t want to pay for news online
Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be “like trying to force butterflies back into their cocoons,” a new consumer survey suggests.
That was one of several bleak headlines in the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual assessment of the state of the news industry, released Sunday.
Would you pay for Online [...]
Bloggers Mugged by Regulators
There’s a saying that a neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. We’ve now learned that bloggers mugged by regulators become economic libertarians.
The FTC is heavily regulating speech online
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission issued its “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising,” last updated in 1980. [...]
News Corp. Joined by Rivals Weighing Google Block
Publishers of the Denver Post and the Dallas Morning News may pull some of their stories from Google Inc.’s news site, a move that would emulate News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch.
Other Publishers are following Murdoch’s anti-Google lead
News Corp. is considering blocking Google’s search engine from displaying its news articles and is talking to Microsoft Corp. [...]
Murdoch Plays High-Stakes Game of Chicken with Google
Rupert Murdoch is probably the most outspoken media executive of them all in threatening to retaliate against Google for what he, and others, see as copyright violations by the search giant.
Murdoch is either crazy or a entrepreneurial genius to take on Google
And, given the size and scope of his media empire, the News Corp. [...]
Media Industry to Test Paywall for Web Content
Print and cable media are looking to charge for their online media content to compensate for dwindling revenues from advertisements.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch—whose company News Corporation owns more than 70 media outlets around the world including Fox News, Fox Studios, the New York Post, and The Wall Street Journal in the U.S.—announced that he will [...]
Murdoch vows to charge for all online content
By Kenneth Li and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Financial Times
Murdoch will charge for all online content
Rupert Murdoch has vowed to charge for all the online content his newspapers and television news channels, going well beyond his prediction in May that the company would test pay models on one of its stronger papers within the year.
The comments by [...]
Pay Walls Alone Won’t Save Newspapers
By ERIC PFANNER, NYT
Will May 2009 mark the beginning of the end for the free, unfettered Internet? From all the wailing on the Web — and the fist-pumping in some old-media redoubts — it might seem so.
In recent days, Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News Corp., declared that he would end what he called a [...]
