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Time Magazine Walls Off Its Web Site: Will You Pay Up?

Peter Kafka in Media on July 7, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Want to read the cover story, or anything else, in this week’s Time magazine? Get out your wallet.

How Much Will You Pay To Read Your News Online?

Peter Kafka in Media on June 3, 2009 at 10:53 am PT

After years of training people to expect that whatever you can find on the Web will be free, media companies are trying — desperately — to reverse the trend, and figure out how to get people to pay up. Or at least some of the people, some of the time, for some stuff. This assumes that there’s unique stuff that people are willing to pay for, and I don’t know about that thesis. But if it does pan out, the guys behind Journalism Online want to handle the backend.