Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal

Maybe paying for news online is a good thing

The Columbia Journalism Review tells me that the Wall Street Journal has sur­passed USA Today in cir­cu­la­tion num­bers, mak­ing it the most widely cir­cu­lated news­pa­per in the country. Note too that the Journal has seen growth in its cir­cu­la­tion while also charg­ing for its online con­tent. Newsday will also start up a pay sys­tem this [...]
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450,000 bloggers can’t be wrong

The Wall Street Journal’s Mark Penn has an inter­est­ing post today in which he writes that blog­gers make up one of the country’s largest work­forces. America has about 20 mil­lion blog­gers, 1.7 mil­lion of whom profit from their work. Of those, Penn says about 450,000 list blog­ging as their pri­mary profession. His post plays a [...]
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Why do people pay for the Wall Street Journal online?

Alan Mutter has started a two-part series on the Wall Street Journal, the world’s best-known pay­walled news site. He intends to show why the pay model is right, and in part one he has enlisted the help of guest blog­ger Bill Grueskin, for­mer man­ag­ing edi­tor of WSJ.com. In the arti­cle, Grueskin tells us about all [...]
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Government likely to antitrust Google

The Justice Department may sue Google over its upcom­ing adver­tis­ing part­ner­ship with Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reports. The depart­ment has hired high-profile lawyer Sandford Litvack and has been depos­ing wit­nesses and gath­er­ing doc­u­ments about the deal for weeks. Under the ad part­ner­ship, Yahoo would show the valu­able Google ads along with its own ads. The [...]
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