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Once again, New York Times will evaluate charging for online content

Posted Mar 15th 2009 4:40PM by Joseph Lazzaro (RSS feed)
Filed under: Newspapers, Internet, Competitive strategy, New York Times'A' (NYT)

The industry standard in journalism, The New York Times, is revisiting the issue of charging for online content.

New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Chairman Authur Sulzberger, Jr., told a Stony Brook (N.Y.) University audience Thursday that the company is considering "incremental" charges for website users, while keeping most of its site free, Bloomberg News reported.

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Apple sets precedent for protection of online journalists' sources

Posted Jul 13th 2006 1:27PM by Tobias Buckell (RSS feed)
Filed under: Good news, Rumors, Press releases, Products and services, Industry, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL), Marketing and advertising

Half of the fun for Apple users comes at times like this. With a month to go before the World Wide Developers Conference (referred to as WWDC) where Apple often announces some new products, rumors about what will be revealed by Steve Jobs on the stage are running rampant.

Apple sites and blogs will speculate on what might come out, dream about what they want to come out and list the details, even Photoshop up possible models to pass around or fake others out with. It's an entire ecosphere of excitement, and often in the middle of it some of these rumor sites will break a real tip from an Apple employee about an upcoming product.

In the most recent case it was a leak about music-media related product Apple still has yet to release (an 'iPod-killer' killer?). Apple made the case that online bloggers and website owners were not real journalists, and therefore did not have any legal protection in refusing to give up their sources. However a panel of judges recently affirmed that online journalists were still journalists and had that protection. Apple was not able to grab the offending email from the servers of two sites that got the information. As a result of the decision Apple decided not to pursue the matter any more.

This was first of all a landmark case for online journalism, as it sets the precedent for online reporters to have some of the same protection that their print counterparts have.

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