Posts Tagged ‘paywalls’
Almost all Irish newspapers posted largely predictable slides in their circulation figures yesterday, with sales of the Irish Times falling below the psychologically important 100,000 mark. Interestingly, however, the Times also posted audited figures for some of its digital editions – 2,023 for its online e-paper and 1,687 for subs on what they call “other [...]
A few additional thoughts on Declan Lynch’s cliched and curmudgeonly paean to the paywall. Hugh Linehan has a much more polite take than mine in which he pokes another hole in Declan’s argument: “the biggest problem facing newspapers isn’t declining circulation; it’s declining ad revenues” His post, “Do journalists understand what’s happening to newspapers?”, also makes me suspect [...]
Comment isn’t free, Declan – but it is cheap
March 4, 2012 in :: Irish Media, Future media, Newspapers
Tags: Comment is free, David Astor, Declan Lynch, George Orwell, Independent News and Media, paywalls, Robert McCrum, Sunday Independent
Declan Lynch has form when it comes to spouting nonsense about online journalism. While his column has clearly shown he knows next to nothing about the web (Twitter is little more than “a bunch of people talking about what they had for breakfast”), as a long-time columnist for the Sunday Independent, shouldn’t he know a [...]