How the Seattle Times sold 71,000 digital subscriptions: ‘People just love to read about bridges and tunnels’
How do you persuade 71,000 people to pay for access to your local news website? Frank Blethen, chief executive and…
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How news publishers should use Black Friday to drive paid subscriptions
We’re just over a week away from Black Friday, the annual consumer-fest of cheap TVs and discounted smart speakers. Ad…
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Spectator reports revenue up this year as subscriptions cancel out Covid-19 advertising hit
The Spectator has revealed that turnover this year is up 8% so far despite the impact of Covid-19 as it…
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Advertising and subscriptions not enough for JPI Media, warns analyst, as revenue drops 28% over two years
JPI Media has kept its revenue decline broadly in line with the rest of the UK regional press industry, with…
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Paywalls, micropayments and donations: How regional press giants are trying to make news pay
How to make quality news pay is the central dilemma facing the journalism industry in the digital age – and…
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Paywalls: New York Times chief Meredith Kopit Levien says 100m will pay for online news by 2030
The chief executive of the New York Times has predicted that 100m people will have digital English-language news subscriptions in…
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Times pays damages after paywalled article’s preview showed ‘libellous imputation’
The Times has been forced to pay damages after the headline and preview of an article seen by non-subscribers outside…
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Ten years of the Times digital paywall: How Murdoch’s ‘big gamble’ paid off
It is now ten years since the Times launched its online subscription model, putting all of its content behind a…
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