Journerdism

“Under the New York Times’ paywall plan, visitors can read 20 articles a month free before being prompted to pay up, and, indeed, the data Experian Hitwise collected shows that traffic was off the…

“Most of the valuable real estate on Amazon.com’s home page is currently covered by a promotion for the “Kindle with special offers,” as it’s being dubbed, and the full press release has more…

“Twitter has been making a persistent pitch to TV in recent months: Work with us, and we’ll boost your ratings.

And here’s a TV network taking them up on the offer: Viacom’s Comedy Central, which…

“Most notable findings of the survey of more than 1400 respondents include:
43% of respondents spend more time with their tablet than with their desktop/laptop
1 in 3 respondents spends more time…

“Using TV Anywhere for authentication, the iPad and iPhone app streams live programming from ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3.com. No frills, just the stream. But you have to be a subscriber of Time…

“Turns out, most apps and sites fit into one of two categories:

Standard mobile coverage that worked fine, but was largely a collection of articles
Innovative coverage that reached to try…

“So just who are all these Android smartphone users? They’re young—50 percent of Android owners in the U.S. are under the age of 35, The Nielsen Company reports. Twenty one percent of Android users…

“Systrom gives three reasons behind Instagram’s record Halloween numbers: “1) We got featured by Apple 2) Halloween is an awesome time to share/take pictures and 3) There’s just the natural growth of…

“The bottom line is that News Corp. has managed to attract just over 50,000 paying monthly subscribers in the four months since it has been running its paywalls at its two British papers — which…

“The latest comScore Top 50 Properties (U.S.) statistics make sobering reading for AOL, the former king of the portals in the 90s and early part of this century. While AOL is the number 5 ranked U.S….

“The commonality across all of these examples (and thousands more in our other studies) is that users pay attention to information-carrying images that show content that’s relevant to the task at…

“Despite its past efforts to shape Silverlight into the leading cross-platform runtime for the web and the desktop, Microsoft now says that its strategy and plans for Silverlight have “shifted.”

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“But, from a pre-paywall readership of 20 million unique monthly users, to a base of 105,000 cumulative reader payments in the last four months (figs, analysis), The Times has encouraged just 0.5…

“It’s election day in the United States, and with election day comes election day coverage. With more media players than ever aiming for their own slice of the audience, here are a few highlights of…