Articles tagged with: paywalls
Newsrewired March 2019: seven main takeaways

The Newsrewired conference, which took place on 6 March 2019 at Reuters in London, showcased once again the most interesting projects and latest trends in digital journalism.
If you weren’t there, or if you simply want to remind yourself of the topics of the day, check out this editorial selection of the best conference coverage articles.
How NZZ increased its conversion rate up to five times with dynamic ‘paygates’

Rouven Leuener is group head of digital product at Neue Zürcher Zeitung, one of the oldest German-language newspapers in Switzerland. He took the lead on digital innovation five years ago and shared his experience of experimenting with dynamic ‘paygates.’
Meet your keynote speaker: Rouven Leuener, group head of digital product at Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Rouven Leuener is group head of digital product at Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), one of the oldest Swiss, German-language newspapers. He took the lead on digital innovation five years ago and, during this time, he launched a number of digital products, such as a text-to-speech audio player feature that converts written articles into audio, to widen audience reach.
#newsrw: Marc Reeves keynote: journalists need to learn to help sell niche, targeted content

Readers have always thought of themselves in niches, claims Reeves, who calls the regional press foolish for thinking of a community of 100,000 as a single group
#newsrw: the Times, RBI confident of a paid-for news future

Times assistant editor said paywall alternatives meant “enormously intrusive advertising”, and claims that at a lot of sites “the barrier between journalism and commercial was getting very thin”
‘Journalists are owed a living by nobody’: Marc Reeves on the business of journalism
Business Desk West Midlands editor claims the newspapers are ‘incapable of adopting the entrepreneurial approach’ to online journalism and are ‘wrong-headed’ on paywalls
Liveblogging the online trouble shooting session
A minute by minute account of the online journalism trouble shooting session with Jon Bernstein, Adam Tinworth, Malcolm Coles, and Robin Goad