The Sun
Spinning the digital news cycle
The Sun's starting to gate its content, and local news is putting up a paywall. No, this isn't a post from 2014 — this is happening now.
cms
Finding the right publishing tech for your business model
A tech centric panel at the Future of Media Technology explored the software needed to support today’s revenue models – and asked if we should buy or build.
news:rewired
Subscriber revenue: what's the future — and the limit?
How do you win an audience. convert them to subscribers — and retain them in tough economic times? A news:rewired panel explores past sucesses and future strategies.
paywalls
Rewarding good subscriber content is not the same as rewarding clickbait
The Telegraph's plan to incentivise subscriber-friendly content doesn't look like clickbait payments, whatever Twitter says
newsletters
Engaged Reading Digest: the subscriptions edition
Five reads on subscriptions and membership models, to give you some hope about the future of journalism.
ghost
Ghost 3.0 has built-in membership and paywall tools to build engaged journalism sites
Ghost 3.0 upgrades the content management system to a full membership platform, with the ability to easily add paid subscribers.
paywalls
Paywalls promote misinformation
If all high-quality news becomes paywalled - what will fill the void left behind?
paywalls
CMSes are integrating paywall tech
Paywalls are getting easier to implement, as they get integrated into content management systems.
financial times
How the Financial Times measures quality reads
The Financial Times is driving paying subscribers through smart use of analytics to monitor what they care about.
analytics
Paywalls and Analytics
Paywalls need love, too. Unless you're tracking your analytics, you won't know if they're pitched correctly.
news:rewired
Rouven Leuener: Paygates not Paywalls for supporting journalism
For all the praise heaped on the NYT, its paywall model won't work for smaller audiences. Switzerland's NZZ is trying something more sophisticated.
bundling
Are we really going to do the "news bundle" conversation yet again?
Oh, look the "iTunes/Spotify/Netflix for news" idea is on its annual outing.