Should the New York Times charge hedge funds or large financial institutions more for early access to market-moving stories like its Walmart exposé? Reuters blogger Felix Salmon says yes, but doing… Read more »
News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch’s comments about piracy reinforce the sense that the billionaire media and entertainment mogul doesn’t understand how content works in a digital era, and that he is… Read more »
Does The Daily live up to its billing? Is it the future of newspapers? Not really. It does some interesting things, but it also does some very confusing things. And much… Read more »
The lessons of how to adapt to the web and take advantage of it are not complicated, if media outlets are willing to listen. If you are engaged in a business… Read more »
News Corp. has finally released official figures on the effect of paywalls at two of its British newspapers, which show that the two papers have lost a huge proportion of their… Read more »
News Corp. billionaire Rupert Murdoch doesn’t like to admit failure, but he appears to have conceded defeat in his attempts to build a competitor to Google News. Project Alesia, designed to… Read more »
Fans of newspaper paywalls like to roll out a number of defences for their position, including the fact that other content industries charge for access to what they produce, and therefore… Read more »
News Corp. is doubling down on his bets that paid content will eventually win the day online, by buying the Skiff e-reader business from Hearst Corp. and buying a stake in… Read more »
Clay Shirky says large media entities are like ancient societies such as the Mayans and the Romans, in that they have grown so complex that they are no longer able to… Read more »