The New York Times gets down and dirty
There is nothing quite so entertaining – or so illogical these days – than an old-fashioned newspaper war such as the one that Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal is picking with the New York Times on...
View ArticleThe New York Times builds a low fence
The New York Times' plan to charge users online, which it unveiled today, has been dubbed by Ken Doctor a "pay fence" because it is easier to get over than a "pay wall". The NYT's fence is also rather...
View ArticleWhy Cory Doctorow is wrong about news
The New York Times paywall (or pay fence) goes up today and there has been an enormous amount of speculation/analysis about it. For what it’s worth, I think it will succeed. This is not because people...
View ArticleThe newspapers that should follow the New York Times
The success of the New York Times metered paywall – it has gathered 224,000 digital-only web subscribers in its first four months (as well as 57,000 Nook and Kindle subscribers) – raises one obvious...
View ArticleA poor attempt to predict the business future
This time last year, I wrote a New Year column with seven predictions for events that would occur in business in 2011. It is time for reckoning and I must say that I scored poorly, with only three out...
View ArticleThe looming problem for Madison Avenue
The travails of old media businesses are well-known but I’m starting to feel sympathy for advertisers and media buyers. That sentiment was brought on by looking (in old media fashion) at the front of...
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BBC’s Thompson faces harder Times
Mark Thompson - image by Getty I don’t know Mark Thompson, outgoing director-general of the BBC, but I have my doubts about how well his long career at Britain’s public-service broadcaster –...
View ArticleDon’t blame Weymouth for the Washington Post’s troubles
David Carr’s column in the New York Times criticising Katharine Weymouth, the publisher of the Washington Post, for her handling of the venerable Watergate paper strikes me as a little off-target....
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Crying over work
In an interview with Newsweek, Jill Abramson (left), the editor of the New York Times, admitted that she cried when she read a profile in Politico, a Washington news site, that cast doubt on her...
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