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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 little [...]
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 the [...]
Posted in New Media, Print Culture Also tagged Alan Mutter, Bill Grueskin, journalism, New Media, paywalls, Peter Kann Comments closed
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 prices [...]
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