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NEWS ABOUT: paid content

paid content stories: 7 news summaries

Changes Afoot for Hollywood Trade Pubs

Variety to charge for online content; THR
will move to web

Sep 18, 09 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Variety will go back behind a pay wall next year, less than 2 years after tearing down its old one, the Los Angeles Times reports. Variety.com will be open only to print or online subscribers, just as it was before February 2007. “Everyone thought then that... More »

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online media • paid content • Internet advertising • Variety magazine • Variety • free news • Nikki Finke • Brian Gott • The Hollywood Reporter

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Mogul steps up plans to charge for all News Corp's web offerings

Aug 6, 09 2:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch says the days of News Corp.'s giving away news from its newspapers and TV stations on the Internet are numbered, the Financial Times reports. Murdoch, who earlier this year said he planned to test pay-to-read models, now says he plans to start charging for access to all... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • online news • paid content • online newspapers • News Corp

(Newser) - From Rupert Murdoch to Twitter founder Evan Williams, moguls old and young descend on Sun Valley, Idaho, this week for an annual summit on media and technology. This year, reports the Financial Times, the dominant question concerns paid content—a debate that has spread from the troubled newspaper industry to... More »

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media • advertising • Idaho • paid content • new media • digital media • Sun Valley

OPINION

Dirt-Cheap Netbooks Might Save Media Industry

Paying for content, not hardware, is the key

Jun 9, 09 12:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - There might be hope yet for the media industry, “because the tech industry is screwed too,” writes Simon Dumenco for Advertising Age. With light, cheap netbooks squeezing the profit out of the hardware, makers are partnering with media providers (ie, Acer selling netbooks for $100, plus 2-year AT&... More »

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media • paid content • Acer • subscription • AT&T • Netbooks • Asus • newspaper industry • digital content

(Newser) - Hey, you! Yes, you, the guy who keeps posting video of your nephew batting a ball into your brother’s family jewels. You’re going to kill YouTube, warns Benjamin Wayne of Silicon Alley Insider. Owner Google will lose $470 million this year on YouTube because, he writes, “less... More »

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Google • YouTube • user generated content • paid content • Hulu

(Newser) - Apple has a lot of nifty apps for its iPhone, but apparently the novelty wears off in a hurry. A new analysis shows that many people download them, then promptly forget about them, Apple Insider reports. Just 20% of people use free apps the day after download; at the end... More »

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Apple • paid content • ad revenue • iTunes Store • iPhone applications • mobile devices • Pinch Media

Times Will Eliminate
Pay Access to TimesSelect

Op-ed columnists to burst out from behind firewall

Aug 7, 07 11:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times will shut down TimesSelect, the pay section of its website that keeps columnists such as Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich beyond the reach of the great unwashed. The fate of the $7.95-a-month subscription service sparked hot debate among publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and other Times ... More »

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Internet • newspaper • New York Times • news • journalism • TimesSelect • paid content • Maureen Dowd • Frank Rich • Arthur Sulzberger Jr.

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