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The AFR has one of the hardest paywalls in the business, but the evidence shows this strategy could prove difficult to maintain.
Comment may be free, but newspapers have got to make money somehow.
The transition from print to digital will not be painless at Fairfax, or its global peers.
Media consumers are spoilt for choice, making new revenue models difficult for publishers.
Much of what’s being said in support of open access publishing misses one key point: that is there is always a value chain and costs are incurred. Someone somewhere is paying for open access.
The stakes are high for news outlets to raise revenue. Do paywalls have a future?
With digital subscriptions barely registering on the revenue front, media companies are staking their hopes on alternative revenue sources.
Media companies are failing to deliver transparency about their digital subscriptions, as my recent study about paywalls found. The research of paywalls in eight countries found paid online content presents…
The Guardian’s Australian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner did what many media commentators fail to do, last week, and disentangled the crisis facing print newspapers from the state of journalism. Too often…
UPDATE: Fairfax has responded to a column published on The Conversation – and an earlier version of this story – that linked the introduction of the publisher’s pay wall to an apparent slump in the number…
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 over…
Fairfax chief executive Greg Hywood has dismissed the threat from the impending Australian launch of UK media group The Guardian, telling shareholders it is not a strong competitive brand in Australia…
Activists pushing for free, open access to academic papers will eventually defeat publishers who seek to lock scholarly findings behind paywalls, the founder of the world wide web said today. Sir Tim Berners-Lee…
Fairfax reporters will be expected to file stories throughout the day into an internal “wire” that will hold copy for use on any platform - print, online, tablet, social media and mobile, under a blueprint…
The radical shift by Fairfax Media to a digital-first model must be accompanied by a sharp improvement in the quality of journalism on its websites if the paywall plan is to succeed, media analysts agree…
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Senior Lecturer, Co-Director Research Centre for Journalism, Media & Democracy, Auckland University of Technology
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2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
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C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, University of Pennsylvania
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PhD Student in Communications, University of Pennsylvania
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Danny Kingsley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Law, University of Kentucky
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Galway
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Digital Communications and Culture, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
