Nine Questions as the NYT’s Pay Fence Gets Ready to Go Global

• Ken Doctor

• Ads & Commerce - Dailies - Mobile, Smartphone & Tablet - More Ken Doctor Posts - New York Times - News Corp/Wall Street Journal - Paywalls and Digital Circulation - The Digital Dozen - The New News - TV / Video

• March 21, 2011

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Is part of the plan a backdoor Sunday paper/digital access new bundle? Three of the people I talked with on the day of the announcement had begun to run the subscribe-to-Sunday, get-free-digital access numbers in their head. At a $4-a-week introductory rate, that’s $208 a year. Which gets you ...

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9 Questions: Business News Wars, Gary Pruitt, the Yahoo Bump and the New COOL

• Ken Doctor

• 9 Questions - Ads & Commerce - Dailies - GAFA - Gannett - Google - New York Times - News Corp/Wall Street Journal - The New News - Tronc/Tribune Pub. - Yahoo

• September 11, 2008

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As I train down to D.C. for the Online News Association conference (moderating a panel hopefully titled, Optimize and Monetize, tomorrow; if you’re there, say hello), the dizzying news industry news of the last week raises more questions than answers. Here’s my top nine of the ...

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