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Newspaper Pay Wall Alternatives

Newspaper Pay Wall Alternative

Newspaper website paywalls are a bad idea, here’s a better idea. Reward your readers rather than punishing them.

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Douglas Bailey Can't Hear You

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Former Boston Globe employee Douglas Bailey has decided he simply can’t take the comments allowed under his precious “journalism”.

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Who Do Newspapers Need To Attract To Survive?

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If a journalist doesn’t understand the revolutionary changes around him, he won’t realize that his job is now so more than just writing. He now must build an audience. The old built in newspaper audience is now gone.

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Can Online Newspaper Sites Survive?

Is there anything online newspaper sites can do to save themselves?

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Forcing Your Customers To Register

I understand that newspaper sites are in turmoil. I understand they need to generate more revenue. I don’t understand some of they ways they try to accomplish it. Many of the McClatchy newspaper sites set a threshold for the number of pages a visitor can view before forcing them to register. Some sites have that [...]

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Online News Consumption Up

PaidContent had a nice synopsis of the current state of online news. The Pew Research Center for People & the Press put out the study which talks at length about the blending of “old” and “new” news consumption. Some of the most interesting tidbits from the article include numbers that are not always talked about [...]

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