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$2.31/week: That’s about what you’ll pay for a digital newspaper subscription these days

Ricardo BiltonFebruary 5, 2018

“We get a much better reception now”: Piano says more news orgs are embracing paywalls, reader revenue, and consumer marketing

“The promise of Facebook growth is that, if get your strategy just right, you can get big scale and make money off a relatively small cost base…But there is no media business without a relationship with the consumer.”

Ricardo BiltonFebruary 1, 2018

Learning from the New Yorker, Wired’s new paywall aims to build a more “stable financial future”

“People who have studied the information age at this point recognize that there were a bunch of problems and side effects to the fact that people weren’t asked to pay for content in the early years of the internet.”

The Financial Times is giving high-schoolers around the world free access to FT.com

The New York Times has halved its free monthly articles to 5, its most significant paywall change since 2012

Laura Hazard OwenJune 29, 2017

Talking Points Memo doubled its subscribers in a year — now it’s trying to find new extras for them

“We’ve learned a lot over the last few years about how to construct a business model that allows a substantial but still relatively small news organization to thrive.”

Ricardo BiltonMay 31, 2017

The Boston Globe is getting smarter about digital subscriptions — and tightening up its paywall

“We’ve learned a lot in five years about what the levers are, how we can pull them and what are the tradeoffs. We understand a lot of things better than we used to. The changes are the natural evolution of that understanding.”

More European newspapers are charging for content online (but there are differences by country)

Laura Hazard OwenMay 8, 2017

The Christian Science Monitor’s new paid, daily product is aiming for 10,000 subscribers in a year

“The Daily is really in the service of this mission of making people more thoughtful, less neurotic, more calm, and seeing the world through the lens of progress.”

Shan WangDecember 8, 2016

The Wall Street Journal is confident its “bendier” paywall will draw the paying readers it needs to survive

Despite a bad fall shadowed by news about ad revenue declines and layoffs, the Journal has ridden what seems to be a post-election wave of interest in paid media. It’s counting on changes in paywall strategy to bring in even more digital subscribers.

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