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At the World Newspaper Congress here in Hyderabad this afternoon, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) CEO Les Hinton came out swinging against the world in general, as is the wont of every News Corp exec these days. More specifically, against “geeks bearing gifts”, “false gospel of the Web” and “out & out thieves on the Internet.” It is a familiar cry, one spitted out by the overlord and repeated in slightly more eloquent and dulcet tones by the underlings, including Hinton. Read the full speech, below: “I was invited here to talk about the value of journalism. About how we at News Corp and Dow Jones have worked to create a debate about the future of journalism in the digital world.
@ World Newspaper Congress: Dow Jones CEO: Beware of Geeks Beari
Google Modifying Its First Click Free Program For Subscription S
Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which has a little-known program for subscription sites indexed through Google News, called “ first-click free “, is finally announcing an upgrade that is bound to make Mr. Murdoch happy. What the program was: a way for subscription sites to still get enough clicks from Google News, by making the first click from the news search service free, and then hitting the paywall after that (for instance, on WSJ.com). But users could easily game the system by searching for enough stories from a particular site and read lots more for free than the publisher intended. Now Google is finally rectifying that, after feedback from publishers, to restrict users to be able to access only five stories in a 24-hour period, thus helping protect premium sites’ revenues but still giving away enough stuff for free, or so their thinking goes.
