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Daily archives for November 20th, 2010

Moving newspapers to digital and paid content

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Mark Colvin (ABC – the Full Story), interviews Richard Freudenstein, chief executive of News Digital Media and The Australian, and talks about News Corp’s move towards paid online content [audio | transcript] … “Price for overall package not yet known, but the Apps will be priced at $7.99”.  Freudenstein thinks  “there is a lot of […]

Four News Ltd editors talk iPad and electronic newsp...

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Interesting interview by Nick Evershed (NPA) with Australian editors, Garry Linnell (Daily Telegraph), Simon Pristel (Herald Sun), Mel Mansell (the Advertiser) and Michael Crutcher (Courier-Mail). They share their view on moving newspaper to online, tablets (iPad), apps. Interesting points they make is that with online/tablet readers, newspapers can more easily target different reader-groups (e.g. age-based) […]