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Pay Wall Drives Newsday.com Traffic Down, Paper Says According To Plan - 12/11/2009

Rupert Murdoch's new weekly pricing plan for The Wall Street Journal's mobile app looks steep, but it should reinforce the value of subscribing to the paper.

Dow Jones announced an online venture that combines The Wall Street Journal's Web site with Dow Jones's business-to-business news service and databases." />

The push for newspapers to charge their online readers reached wild-rumpus status last week, as Newsday.com announced a pay wall.

LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood trade newspaper Variety is putting its Web site behind a "pay wall" starting Thursday – reserving its online content for paid subscribers and hoping its advertisers will stick around despite the smaller Internet audience. Variety plans to shut off free access gradually, asking one in 10 visitors for a user name and password that will be sent to paying subscribers.

Online Pay Walls Will Hurt Newspapers - 12/07/2009

Sony's electronic reader will offer subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, the latest in a series of moves by publishers and consumer-electronics companies to loosen Amazon's hold on the embryonic e-reader market." />

A new Wall Street Journal local section may win ads from the NYT.

Why pay for the WSJ when you can get it for free?

Interesting conversation cropping up regarding WSJ's guidelines for journalists using social media. Click on the link to Editor & Publisher to see the guidelines.

Plagued by declining ad pages and dollars, SmartMoney, the Wall Street Journal's 20-year-old personal finance magazine, is ceasing print production and going online-only.

In which, among other things, ebook retailer giants (Amazon, Apple) turn down e-books because they contain links to a competitor's product.

What wall? The question for print has become less about whether to cross the boundary between editorial and sales and more about how best to do it.

A must-read series on online privacy by the Wall Street Journal.  If you browse the web, if you write email, if you have an ISP you should know about this  

I know we've discussed in class how Google (and other entities) seems to know so much about us, but isn't it a bit naive to assume the opposite? We expose a piece of our private lives in every way: credit cards for example track where we go, where we eat, what we buy, and the like. Even if paying cash at places, we're signing up for list servs, blogs, campaigns, donating to charities that require contact information, filling out surveys. Given this, is it all that surprising that we are being "watched"? I don't think it's possible to function in today's society without exposing much of ourselves (when you want to pay cash somewhere, the bank knows when, where, what time of day you withdrew money), unless we change our names or deliver false information.

Former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget runs the numbers on newspapers making the migration to online delivery.

In The Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that the Internet will not destroy news organizations. He says that Google working in cooperation with publishers of newspapers and magazines can help bring about a business model to share ad revenue from searches." />

If you want to know what paid content on the web can do for newspapers' paid circulation, keep your eye on places such as Lima, Ohio and Bend, Oregon.