Tatyana Meshcheryakova
Last Thursday, we’ve learned that the New Orleans daily, The Times-Picayune (TP), will start publishing three times a week (Wednesday, Friday, Sunday) under a new company called NOLA Media Group, with reduced staff (rumor has, one-third will be laid off)...
George Williams
Paywalls on news websites had been the subject of frequent discussion for some time now, including the ease with which many game the ones like The Wall Street Journal one. Now we have numbers which should come as a shock to no one, indicating that most tablet users do...
Rachelle Matherne
Gillian Shaw, who covers technology and social media for The Vancouver Sun, writes that 90% of Canadians would turn to free alternatives before paying for news content. She cites a study by University of British Columbia professor Donna Logan entitled “Canadian...
Rachelle Matherne
A bevy of tools and services have popped up in recent months for online news readers. A New York Times article earlier this week highlighted some of them, such as Read It Later and Instapaper, which allow the reader to save articles to be viewed offline in a variety...
Rachelle Matherne
The Times, based in the U.K. and owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has begun rolling out its paywall. Eventually, readers will have to pay a subscription fee in order to read the newspaper’s online content, but for now, they only have to register for a...
