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Time Warner Makes $1.4 Billion Endemol Bid
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has made a takeover bid for Endemol, the debt-laden Dutch production company behind Big Brother and Deal or No Deal. The US media firm’s offer is thought to be worth about €1bn...
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Newspaper paywalls: Lessons learned
News sites have launched a variety of different online paywall models this year, some with more success than others. There’s no one way that works for every local market, but a few best practices are...
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Paid subscriptions vs. free content: striking the right balance – Content...
Paywalls are a touchy topic for any media brand that sells advertising, but many publishers are reconsidering paid content ideas because of the challenging advertising environment. Metered paywalls...
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How Pay-Per-Article Option Tripled Revenue for Subscription Site
CHALLENGE Over 11 years, Alacra has built online technology and services to help hundreds of banks, management-consulting and law firms and other corporations worldwide find, package and use business...
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MediaNews Group’s ‘Digital-First’ Mondays Bring Some Paywalls Down
[tags: Newspapers Revenue, Video, Newspapers, Washington Post Company, Newspapers Profits, Washington Post, Death of Newspapers, Media & Publishing, Media / Entertainment, Media Apple, Mobile,...
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Journal Register CEO John Paton: Too Early To Say Whether MediaNews Paywalls...
Journal Register CEO John Paton has been a vocal opponent of using paywalls to increase digital revenue for newspapers, as have his advisory board members Jeff Jarvis, Emily Bell and Jay Rosen. But...
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New York Times Expands Into Freemium Apps With ‘Election 2012’
As it has done on its website, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is experimenting with a mix of free and paid content through its standalone news apps. The newspaper’s new “Election 2012” political news...
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Alpha female of The New York Times
Jill Abramson is too busy to worry about her own appetite. She’s more concerned about other people’s appetites – specifically, her readers’ hunger for news. ANTHONY JENKINS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL It’s a...
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A web-first politics site for NBC News: Vivian Schiller on the launch of...
By Justin Ellis Email NBC News keeps its political reporting in lots of different places. There’s Chuck Todd on Twitter, in the evening with Brian Williams and the Nightly News Crew, online at MSNBC’s...
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Web Video Fills Hole Left by TV in China
Beijing—government restrictions are driving young Chinese to turn off their TVS and turn on their computers. Advertisers and Western studios are right there with them. China’s streaming- video sites...
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