9 May 2013 News Limited CEO Kim Williams has been forced to change tack on the online newspaper paywall model for the company’s metro mastheads. AAP/Joe Castro The News Limited paywall dilemma: how to avoid competing against yourself By Stephen King, Monash University You could almost feel sorry for newspaper owners. The internet is smashing their hard copy advertising revenue and they have yet to work out how to make money out of their online editions. It is just…
21 February 2013 Fairfax delays paywall, dismisses threat from The Guardian By Charis Palmer, The Conversation Fairfax chief executive Greg Hywood has dismissed the threat from the impending Australian launch of UK media group The Guardian…
29 January 2013 World wide web creator sees open access future for academic publishing By Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation Activists pushing for free, open access to academic papers will eventually defeat publishers who seek to lock scholarly findings…
27 June 2012 Print, digital divide finally dead, says Fairfax By Justin Norrie, The Conversation Fairfax reporters will be expected to file stories throughout the day into an internal “wire” that will hold copy for use…
19 June 2012 Fairfax must take ‘tabloid sites’ upmarket to survive By Justin Norrie, The Conversation The radical shift by Fairfax Media to a digital-first model must be accompanied by a sharp improvement in the quality of…
