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Recession, Revolution and a Leaner Times
Recession, Revolution and a Leaner Times
IN his autobiography “ The Good Times ,” Russell Baker described the Times newsroom he joined in 1954 as “comically overstaffed.” Baker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington reporter and columnist, quoted a colleague’s explanation for all the idle reporters playing bridge and working crossword ...
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NYT's Keller's Guess: "Within Weeks Of Decision" On Charging For Online
paidContent — ... One of the longest-running guessing games for New York Times insiders and observers may be nearing an end: will the paper charge again for content online and what form would a pay program take? Now after months of deliberation, Executive Editor Bill Keller tells Public Editor Clark Hoyt he guesses a decision is coming “within a matter of weeks.” And yet it doesn’t sound like he sees a straight path to that decision: “It’s a much tougher, more complicated decision than it seems to all the armchair experts. There is ...

New York Times Paywall Decision Coming Within Weeks
Silicon Alley Insider — The New York Times public editor, Clark Hoyt, takes a look at the changes coming to the paper, today, including where the paper will cut staff, and how it will address charging on the web. According to Hoyt's story, executive editor Bill Keller will try to trim, rather than slash, expenses when ...

The Great Newspaper Firewall Is Coming. And?
Valleywag — Newsday is going to start charging for its awful website. One columnist there quit over it. The New York Times says it will make a decision on charging for its (good) website "within weeks." Then what happens? NYT editor Bill Keller told Clark Hoyt that the paper is "within weeks of a decision" on the long-discussed question of whether, and how, to charge for its online news. So here is what their decision will be: You will have to pay for their online news. One way or another! Maybe ...

Sanford Wallace Could Face Jail Time in Facebook Spam Case
ClickZ News Blog — ... Microsoft Close to a Decision on Charging for Online Content Exec editor Bill Keller tells paper ombud a decision is "weeks away." (NYTimes.com) ...

Maybe Informtation Doesn’t Want To Be Free, After All
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... has thrown up a subscription wall around its content, charging $5 a week. The New York Times may not be far behind. And if either can make the subscription model sticks, other newspapers are sure to follow. (Of course, ...

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