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Pay to Play
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With the New York Times announcing that it will start charging for its website, an examination of why scientific and journalistic publishing seem to be headed in opposite directions.
The New York Times dropped a bombshell this week: Beginning in 2011, the Gray Lady will begin charging non-subscribers for access to articles on its [...]
Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites
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Over more than a decade, consumers became accustomed to the sweet, steady flow of free news, pictures, videos and music on the Internet. Paying was for suckers and old fogeys. Content, like wild horses, wanted to be free.
Now, however, there are growing signs that this free ride is drawing to a close.
Newspapers, including [...]
Google Unveils News-by-Topic Service
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Google on Tuesday introduced a new approach to presenting news online by topic, developed with The New York Times and The Washington Post, and said that if the experiment succeeded, it would be made available to all publishers.
The announcement of the “living stories” project shows Google collaborating with newspapers at a time when [...]
Online Rally May Sidestep Newspapers
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It was a good day for newspaper Web sites when Mercedes-Benz USA introduced its updated E-Class cars this summer. Mercedes bought out the ad space on the home pages of The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and had those sites create special 3-D ads for them, at [...]
Evening Standard to be free paper
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The London Evening Standard is to become a free newspaper.
About 600,000 copies of the paper – which currently costs 50p – will be given out in London from 12 October. Current circulation is about 250,000.
The move follows Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev taking control of the Standard from Daily Mail-owner Associated [...]
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