FT.com plans pay-per-article system
The Financial Times is to introduce a full “pay-per-view” model for accessing online articles by next summer and is reviewing whether any content on FT.com will remain free to access.Pearson’s business and financial broadsheet is exploring online payment systems that offer a user-friendly “one-click” process, such as Amazon and Apple’s iTunes.
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FT.com plans pay-per-article system
The Financial Times is to introduce a full “pay-per-view” model for accessing online articles by next summer and is reviewing whether any content on FT.com will remain free to access.Pearson’s business and financial broadsheet is exploring online payment systems that offer a user-friendly “one-click” process, such as Amazon and Apple’s iTunes.
Read the Guardian story
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Reuters Institute: Public Trust in the News
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Project for Excellence in Journalism: State of the News Media 2008
American Press Institute: Newspaper Next
Harvard/Nieman: Citizen Journalism and the BBC
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Finding Paths to Prosperity - and Good Journalism
The character of the next era, far from inevitable, will likely depend heavily on the quality of leadership in the newsroom and boardroom… it will require renegades and risk-takers to break from the conventional path and create new directions… the transformation facing journalism is epochal, as momentous as the invention of television or the telegraph, […]
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St. Petersburg Times Photojournalist Uses iPhone for Weekend Magazine Feature
The main feature story in this week’s St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times “Weekend” section is told through photos that were captured solely on an iPhone. The photos are of iconic places all along St. Pete Beach.
Read the interview on Poynter
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