In 2009, media critic Clay Shirky wrote an essay called "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable," in which he put the economic woes of paper-based newsmedia into historical and cultural context. The tl;dr version of his argument: ...READ»
There's a lot of harrumphing around the blogosphere about the New York Times' decision to again put up paywalls for digital access (the last attempt, TimesSelect, was shuttered in 2007). People are gaming out the angles: Have they chosen the right price points at as much as $20 a month? READ»
Newspapers may be dying, but The New York Times has been admirably farsighted in trying to remake the medium. The company's recent experiments have included remarkable online info graphics and the underappreciated but brilliant ...READ»
