Comments on: The Wall Street Journal Edges Towards Free

By: Ganando plata con el periodismo: modelos de negocio de los nuevos medios (Modelo para la redacción del siglo XXI – 5ta parte) « tejiendo redes

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:09:20 +0000

[...] financiera es un ejemplo raro de periodismo que tiene un valor comercial claro, e incluso eso está bajo amenaza. El contenido es tan fácil de replicar online, que la puntualidad es sólo un punto de venta [...]

By: opting in « cyberpop

opting in « cyberpop — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:54:03 +0000

[...] the increasingly ingrained expectation that online media content should be free, users are growing more tolerant of ad-supported online [...]

By: Read The Wall Street Journal For Free

Read The Wall Street Journal For Free — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:46 +0000

[...] The Wall Street Journal Edges Towards Free, January 2008, TechCrunch [...]

By: What should your business model be: Free, “Freemium”, or Paid Content? « Information Maven: Greg Meyer

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:21:05 +0000

[...] web actually making money through paying customers. Yet a funny thing happen last year: the Journal opened up its pages. Why give the milk away when you can get the cow for free? Obviously the beancounters at [...]

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Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:54:32 +0000

[...] for content. Even the Wall Street Journal, the nation’s standard for business news, maintains a healthy amount of “free” (albeit ad supported) content. Radio has allowed people to listen “for free” for nearly a century and they’ve [...]

By: Why Does the Wall Street Journal Hate the Web?

Why Does the Wall Street Journal Hate the Web? — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:14:01 +0000

[...] Street Journal won the battle to keep its news pages behind its subscription wall (although, its opinion pages are now free), they have been cracking down especially hard on anyone trying to breach that wall—even if those [...]

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Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:34:12 +0000

[...] Financial information is a rare example of journalism that has a clear commercial value, and even that’s under threat. Content is so easily replicable online, that timeliness is only a marginal selling point (mobile [...]

By: David H. Deans

David H. Deans — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:54:33 +0000

I have been following their Business Technology blog.
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/

Perhaps the expanded visitor commentary will complement their traditional editorial on this and other topics of interest to the executive level readership.

The need for the improved alignment of enterprise technology investments and business strategy execution is clearly a hot topic. However, if executive readers are only exposed to the WSJ staff editor perspective, then the analysis tends to be slanted towards the one or two sources that were used to build the storyline for the article.

In contrast, by allowing informed commentary to coexist with the WSJ editorial the readers will be able to benefit from a broader spectrum of market insights. IMHO, this is notable progress that should benefit both the Journal and its readers.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:14:31 +0000

This is something I wrote about back in September 2006.

So-called “dead tree” media isn’t a sustainable business model, and it’s a business model that looks curiously lost on the internet…

By: NewsCred Blog » Blog Archive » Would you pay for news?

NewsCred Blog » Blog Archive » Would you pay for news? — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:18:58 +0000

[...] (pay) model, but they eventually removed all paid barriers on their site. The Wall Street Journal is on it’s way to removing all pay walls from their site, thereby forgoing almost 75 million dollars worth of [...]

By: Timothy

Timothy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:25:05 +0000

what took them so long ?

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http://www.xencasino.com

By: S. Arblaster

S. Arblaster — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:45:47 +0000

Doesn’t everyone by now know that the WSJ is easily hacked using Firefox and an extension called firebug? If you know how, all WSJ content is free.

By: Scott Yates

Scott Yates — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:51:12 +0000

I think they need to decide soon. I subscribed for years, and let it lapse when Murdoch bought it assuming it would soon be free. If it’s not going to be for at least a year, I’ll sign up again, but until then…

By: Technology Slice

Technology Slice — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:21:15 +0000

I think it need to be a free a long time ago. Bloomberg offers free news and resources related to market activity.

By: Boring Market

Boring Market — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:14:46 +0000

Free content will drive advertisers prices up on the site, which will make up for costs of running and labor costs. I think its a great move, no one should pay for content. I think if advertisements can’t support a site, even a large site with a large base, then businesses and individuals should take the loss. They instead should use their websites to drive their own business offline and/or have their website (or blog) create exposure. Not every website main purpose is to make money off of it.

By: GeraldZ

GeraldZ — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:12:52 +0000

It’s about time they came to their senses. I’d never pay to read their articles although I must admit I do occassionally get to read some quality articles in the ‘Urinal when a hotel provides it.

Take for example Classmates.com. If they’d followed an ad-supported format instead of that ridiculous pay format, they’d be as big as MySpace or Facebook today.

http://www.RSSLiveTV.com

By: Matt W.

Matt W. — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:42:25 +0000

The opinion pages have always been free (unlike the NYT). Only exception was the “political diary”, no idea if that has been changed now. The layout was changed, however, and it seems the opinion pages are now more integrated with the news.

By: Steel

Steel — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:36:47 +0000

If people think sites, even sites with a large user base, can operate in the real world FREE for very long they’re all smokin reefer. Advertising cannot support every website in existence. Get Real.

By: Infinity

Infinity — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:34:20 +0000

As much I like TC, sometimes your editorial is insanely amateurish.. why cant you cross-check if the hrefs (links) are working fine? that busy, or that lazy?

In this case: link missing for “Rupert Murdoch’s previous public statements to that effect”

By: Stanley Miller

Stanley Miller — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:30:09 +0000

I hope they keep it paid. If it’s free it will be tempting to dumb down the content to maximize revenue. Under the paid subscription model, the higher quality content should bring in more subscribers that want more than an online McPaper. Think of it as Costco vs. Walmart.

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:26:30 +0000

My WSJ subscription ended in December and I didn’t renew it in fear that they would go free. Until I know one way or the other I’m not going to renew my subscription. They need to make a clear decision on this. I’m sure other subscribers are feeling the same way. I’m not going to throw a $100 in the trash.

By: Markz

Markz — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:22:27 +0000

Oh great, now we can all enjoy the WSJ’s unabashedly right wing editorial content. It’s a completely unbearable part of the paper.

Woohoo. Yippee.

By: CrunchHead

CrunchHead — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:21:40 +0000

just like every other news paper in the new economy. How do charge for information, every article in the wall gets covered on 100k sites. Actually by the time it hits the news stand its antiquated.

By: naysayer

naysayer — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:12:00 +0000

Who needs the Journal, we have TechCrunch and that’s all the news anyone will ever need, lol!!! Actually, the only reason I found out about TC was because of the write up in the Journal!!!!!

By: LiveCrunch

LiveCrunch — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:56:20 +0000

I must admit I get free WSJ news everyday online, my school provides them to me for free. And I got the schools login

But on the other hand I must admit that WSJ is pricey