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Will BostonGlobe.com give papers a blueprint to avoid Apple’s 30% cut?
Editor’s Note: When it became clear that The Boston Globe was getting ready to launch its new paywalled website, BostonGlobe.com, one of our first thoughts was to wonder what Dan Kennedy — dean of the...
View ArticleThe Boston Globe’s new paywall strategy: A Nieman Journalism Lab discussion
On Monday night, we were happy to host a discussion with some top execs at The Boston Globe on their new two-site paywall strategy. Thanks to all of you who either came to Lippmann House for the...
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Ken Doctor: Little-known 2011 “inventions” that will become mainstream in 2012
Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Here’s Lab columnist and Newsonomics author Ken Doctor, weighing in on what 2011...
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The Boston Globe tightens up as executives seek ‘the optimal balance’ between...
The flexible paywall that The Boston Globe introduced for its subscription website about a year and a half ago has slowly gotten a little less flexible. Fewer Globe stories are available on the...
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The newsonomics of The Boston Globe’s sale
Make more room for the great metro sell-off of 2013. With the unsurprising news that The New York Times Company is trying, once again, to part with The Boston Globe, we see the start of a wave of...
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Split in two: How The Boston Globe, up for sale, is navigating its free/paid...
Sitting in his office last week, Brian McGrory, the new editor of The Boston Globe, described the relationship between the two websites — similarly named, often confused, one free, one paid — that his...
View ArticleBostonGlobe.com is moving to a metered paywall
That’s one of the takeaways from this long profile of the John Henry-era Globe by Jason Schwartz in Boston Magazine. The Globe famously split its web presence in 2011 into a completely free Boston.com...
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