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Category: Mainstream Media

  • How 30 publishers are charging for online content

    If you have an interest in how the mainstream media is evolving and how it hopes to remain relevant to consumers, as I do, there is some new reporting and metrics on what 30 publishers in the USA, Canada, the…

  • Will news be free forever?

    It will be if you read Le Figaro, according to PaidContent UK as the French newspaper prepares to launch its new content-access service on Monday. […] instead of hoisting up a paywall around all its news content, Le Fig is…

  • Making The Economist social

    The Economist newspaper plans to acquire 500,000 fans on Facebook and 750,000 followers on Twitter within six months, says the FT, calling it another sign that traditional publishers are looking to social media as a substantial source of web traffic…

  • ZenNews aggregates the news on your iPhone

    Reading Robin Wauters’ review in TechCrunch yesterday of three nifty iPhone news apps, one especially caught my attention (Robin said it was ‘awesome’): ZenNews from UK company Zensify. I’m trying it out. ZenNews is a free app that aggregates news…

  • Finding a viable pay-for-content model

    PaidContent UK reports some of the details of a Harris Interactive survey they commissioned which asked what people will do if their favourite online free source of news started charging for access to that content. The results surely won’t surprise…