Posts Tagged ‘Rupert Murdoch’
A lot of people are posting on the Wapping paywalls. This is my completely subjective selection: The Drum has rounded up a few reactions from creative/advertising/PR types and the gist is a mix of time-will-tells and jury-still-outs. One interesting point was that the design of the site made it difficult to navigate on the iPad, [...]
The Timeses are trying to cut their combined £100 million editorial budget by 10 per cent, or £10 million. If they are really trying to protect the newspapers and their dwindling revenues with a paywall that limits the growth of online revenues, they could miss out on twice that in online revenue.
Can’t we drop the pretence that editors’ outcry about the Mosley verdict is about the courts’ erosion of “freedoms hard won over centuries” and actually about satisfying a lust, feeding a need and making a buck?
