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UK Consumers Flocking to Online News, Though Few Pay For It
-- Only 3.8 % pay for online news, while 68% of users report accessing it.
That's according to a new trends study released in December 2011 by Oliver & Ohlbaum, a British research form, which shows that multi-sourcing of news content is common to all news channels.
The average consumer uses 2.7 different forms of media to gather news. These include newspapers, online, mobile, television and...
Times of London Website Readership Goes From 20 Million a Month to 105,000 After Pay Wall
-- New York Magazine reported on November 2, 2010:
"Only 105,000 people paid either for one-pound day passes or two-pound monthly passes to view content on the website of the London Times, down from 20 million monthly users back before the pay wall was erected this summer. That's a drop down to 0.5 percent, and the number also includes subscribers who have bought access through the iPad. Parent company News Corporation is touting this...
Has Rupert Murdoch's Times of London Paywall Paid Off?
-- The Independent newspaper of London reported on September 2, 2010:
"Two months after Rupert Murdoch's decision to erect a subscription paywall around the websites of The Times and The Sunday Times, thus removing their content from search engines, the bold experiment is having a marked effect on the rest of British media. There are many who still wish the 79-year-old mogul well, hopeful that he is...
Times of London Puts Some Ads Outside the Wall and on iPad as Web Display Reduces
-- Guardian's paidContent:UK reported on August 9, 2010:
"Though they are often cast as distinct business models, advertising and paid content are not necessarily mutually exclusive - or are they?
Observations from Times Newspapers’ digital properties point to two different answers.
In one, The Times is now selling full-page display campaigns in to its iPad app, for which readers pay £9.99 per month. Campaigns spotted by...
Times of London Goes 'Tentatively Paid'
-- paidContent.org reported on July 1, 2010:
"We’ve covered every step in Times Newspapers’ conversion to paid websites - the initial plan, the confirmation, the blocking of stories from search engines and the launch in May of the two new websites behind a registration wall on a free preview basis. There’s really little left to add…
Except the actual date on which the free preview...
Initial Data and Analysis of Times of London's Paywall... Which Doesn't Always Make One Pay
-- Hitwise.com reported on June 24, 2010:
"Following months of speculation, News International has finally erected a paywall around the Times newspaper website. After a couple of weeks running two sites, in parallel, visitors to the former site are now automatically redirected to the latter. Since last Tuesday, users have had to register to read content on the Times website (as well the separate Sunday Times site). However, they don’t...
Times of London's Paid Site Will Turn Search Engines Away From Stories
-- PaidContent:UK reported on May 24, 2010:
"The Times and Sunday Times’ upcoming paid sites will not allow their articles to appear in search engines like Google. That was one nugget gleaned during a preview of the attractive forthcoming relaunches Monday night. Times Online will relaunch as separate entities “imminently” has relaunched as two separate editions and will go paid within about four weeks. But the sites...
Times of London Explores Reasons for Working in Journalism
-- May 16, 2010: The London newspaper waxed rhapsodic on the subject of making a career of writing for a newspaper:
"A good job in journalism is a licence for nosiness, a soapbox on which to perorate and a backstage pass to the live performance of history. It can make the blood boil and the mind race and the days pass in an arrhythmic heartbeat. A bad job in journalism is like a bad job anywhere.
Still,...
May 1, 2010 The Times and The Sunday Times to Charge for Use of Websites From June 2010
Times of London to Charge for Web Access Rupert Murdoch Predicts the End of Printed Newspapers Writing in the Sunday Times on May 17, 2009, Bryan Appleyard offers a fatuous,
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-- Times of London Profiles '40 Bloggers Who Really Count':
Those profiled include Gwyneth Paltrow, Perez Hilton and Nikke Finke.
The full story:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article7108518.ece
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, May 3, 2010
-- The Times reported on March 27, 2010:
"The Times and The Sunday Times will start charging for online content from June, it was announced yesterday.
Readers will be offered a week’s subscription for £2, or a day’s access for £1, to two new sites, www.thetimes.co.uk and www.sundaytimes.co.uk.
Existing subscribers to the print editions will be given free online access. International pricing has been set at $2/€1.5 a...
-- The Wall Street Journal reported on March 26, 2010:
"The Times and Sunday Times newspapers in the U.K. announced a much-anticipated plan to charge readers for their online news, becoming two of the most prominent papers to adopt Web fees.
The papers are taking an aggressive tack by limiting almost all their Web content, except to readers who will pay a daily or weekly fee, starting in June."
The full story:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704100604575145173361160224.html
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, March 26, 2010
-- In an interview on Fox Business Network on June 8, 2009, Rupert Murdoch predicted the end of newspapers in printed form:
"I can see the day, maybe 20 years away, where you don't actually have paper and ink and printing presses. I think it will take a long time and I think it's a generational thing that is happening. But there's no doubt that younger people are not picking up the traditional newspapers."
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, June 9, 2009
reactionary and altogether very British indictment of Californians, the world wide web and anything else that offends his strong sense of order and tradition:
"Twenty years have passed since Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web. From 1989 to 2000 it grew exponentially. Then it crashed, and bright-eyed, cash-burning dotcoms across the world went bust. From the ashes emerged web 2.0, a cult created, engineered and run by Californians. This can be defined in...