Nine Questions: New York Times Goes Metered

It's a big bet. The New York Times, which has been thrashing about every possible kind of business model in the last six months, is making the bet on metering, meaning readers will get some number of free articles per month, then be told to pay up to get more. Nine quick questions as we... ...

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Public Radio’s Marketplace Faces Familiar Digital Challenges

Important Details: What do you do if you have one of the most successful and fastest growing business news programs? You worry about the digital future, just like newspaper and magazine publishers. American Public Media’s Marketplace is a success story, and a lesson in business news ...

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Attributor “Fair Syndication Consortium” Completes Newspaper Trifecta

So, the three, somewhat ungainly pieces -- combined, represented a trifecta of web reckoning --I see going forward now are: Renegotiation of news producers' relationships with Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. I've written about my notion of Fair Share (no relation and coincidental timing with ...

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Slate’s New SAGA Points to The Big Money

     Ask Jim Ledbetter about his new site’s driving idea, and he’ll tell you that, in part, it really just comes down to four companies. It’s the “SAGA manifesto" approach to business journalism, a term Ledbetter, editor of Slate’s new The Big Money site came up with, ...

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Bloomberg’s Next Push: Consumer, Advertising and Global

If you’ve seen a bit of Bloomberg TV or heard Bloomberg Radio or been in front of one of its terminals, you may have recently wondered: Why isn’t it doing more with what it has? Its reporters are some of the fastest moving on the web, and know data better than most covering the ...

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