Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp, urged competing newspapers to raise paywalls around their content, saying that readers would pay " when they have nowhere else to go. " The Guardian.co.uk reported Mr Murdoch's remarks from a speech at a National Press Club event at George Washington University. Posted by Tom Foremski - April 7, 2010
Murdoch Urges Competing Newspapers To Raise Paywalls - SVW
Rupert Murdoch defiant: 'I'll stop Google taking our news for no
Rupert Murdoch discusses 'the future of journalism' with journalist Marvin Kalb. Photograph: Hyungwon Kang/Reuters Rupert Murdoch has launched a spirited defence of putting up paywalls around his newspaper websites, while embracing the game-changing potential of Apple's iPad. The News Corp chairman hailed the new device as a possible saviour of the newspaper industry.
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- Bye-Bye Free News - Murdoch Joins The Pay Debate - Saturday Post: The Inevitable Rise Of Cockroach Media . . . - "Google Devalues Everything It Touches" - Wall Street Journal Chief - Pandora's Box 1981: The Online Newspaper Experiment Please see:
Why Pay-For-News Won't Work: The First Mover Disadvantage - SVW
NYT: Charging Ahead (Slowly) - Paywall in 2011 - SVW
This is hardly a bold move. It smacks of indecision. The NYT should have said "we'll see how Rupert Murdoch fares with his paywalls then we'll copy whatever works." Jeff Jarvis on Buzz Machine, has been a paid advisor to the NYT. He recently wrote: But executives of The New York Times Company said they could not yet answer fundamental questions about the plan, like how much it would cost or what the limit would be on free reading.
Paywalls & Google Are Not Mutually Exclusive As publishers increasingly consider putting up paywalls (a barrier to reading a story unless you’ve paid for it in some way), I also see commentary from others arguing such moves would be dumb, that they’ll be the final nail in killing some publications. What’s a confused publisher to do? For me, I find it puzzling publishers believe they have to make a choice. They can have their paywall AND Google traffic combined, via Google’s First Click Free program. Are there many publishers who simply aren’t aware of this program?
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Murdoch + GOOG
Shortly after the birth of Keith Rupert Murdoch in 1931, the newspaper moguls of America did something remarkable. They ordered Associated Press, United Press and the International News Service – the three dominant news agencies of the day -- to stop providing news stories to hundreds of radio stations across the United States. Home page image: Flickr CC: Shironeko Euro
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Analysis On Murdoch And Switching Off GOOG: The Dirty Little Secret About Search Engine Traffic... WSJ Chief: There Are Two Types: Creators And Aggregators - Creators Carry The Burden Of Costs Please see: Google Is Really Bad At Monetizing Content Yet CEO Schmidt Lectures Newspapers - - -
How Blogging Has Changed Over The Last 3 Years (Stats)
Engagement on-site has grown in absolute terms but the share of total engagment that happens on-site vs. off-site has dropped 50%. Trackbacks have fallen from 19% of engagement to 3% of engagement. For 100,000 randomly selected blog posts in each of 2007, 2008 and 2009... Engagement on social networks like but not limited to Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook has grown from 1% to over 29% of total engagement. The Postrank staff admitted that this was a surprisingly low number but said that in aggregate there is still a whole lot of activity going on outside social networks. Total reader engagement has grown 30% year over year or 69% total for the top 1,000 feeds, which includes blogs and mainstream news sites.
Every time Rupert Murdoch complains about Google and says he will cut off access, a mass of Twitterati, Digerati, and Diggerati think the old newspaper tycoon has lost his marbles and doesn't "get it." Surely, they chorus, all that traffic that Google sends to the Wall Street Journal is the equivalent of sending a fire hose of cash straight into his pocket. Why would he want to turn off such a lucrative spigot?! Posted by Tom Foremski - November 9, 2009
Dirty Little Secret about Search Traffi
SVW Embargoes
Dave Needle from InternetNews.com wrote a very good reound-up of what was said: This tech news is not embargoed - InternetNews:The Blog - David Needle Here is an extract: Unfortunately Mike Arrington from TechCrunch couldn't make it, which is a shame because plenty of PR people have told me TechCrunch regularly breaks embargoes and it would have been good to have heard his side of the story. While Tweney continues to selectively agree to embargoes (as does InternetNews.com), he said he recently "punished" a PR firm by refusing to communicate with them for six weeks after a competitor was allowed to publish an embargoed story ahead of everyone else. He said the PR firm's excuse was that the vendor, a handset manufacturer, had leaked the news to a blog directly without the PR firm knowing.
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Richard Waters, West Coast Managing Editor for the Financial Times, analyzes news that Google has hired Apple executive Simon Prakash, senior director of product integrity. By Tom Foremski - February 8, 2012 Michael Wolff, a New York City based columnist for the UK newspaper The Guardian, writes that a source at Thomson Reuters has said that the giant news and information services firm is talking to Pearson about buying the 121 year old newspaper. Have you seen Facebook's rules for users, developers, and partners? They give Facebook tremendous powers to disable accounts and to make money from your content. Here are a few examples, you can see more here in this SEC document filed late Wednesday:
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