Category: Mainstream Media

  • A greyscale view of chargeable mobile content

    Quite a bit of comment and opinion greeted the news from Dow Jones a few days ago that access to the mobile edition of the Wall Street Journal will no longer be free from later next month. It caught my…

  • A compelling route for the mainstream media

    The Economist is one of the best-value subscription deals for a mainstream medium that I can think of. For the amount I pay quarterly (about £20, if I recall correctly), I get a print magazine every Friday in the mail,…

  • Listen to The Economist on the go

    I’m a long-time paying subscriber to The Economist, the only print publication I actually pay money for. My subscription also gives me unfettered access to Economist.com online, as well as the ability to subscribe to the Economist podcast if I…

  • Is this a future for the newspaper business?

    More than 500 newspapers have signed up for an online news charging scheme, says Brand Republic. A US company called Journalism Online has signed up newspapers and online news outlets across the USA to use its e-commerce system for charging…

  • Sign up to stop the NLA charging PR for links

    Last month, I wrote about plans by the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) here in the UK to introduce a scale of charges for anyone in the PR business who uses a link on their own website to any mainstream media…