One of iPad’s flagship apps wants to help publishers sell ads by flipping back to familiar old print rules. “One of the big problems with the web is that it scrolls,” Flipboard CEO Mike McCue told our recent paidContent Advertising conference. » Watch the video of McCue’s Q&A with paidContent UK…

From Flipboard and Aol Editions, to Ongo and News.me, the rise of tablets and apps is changing how we gather and consume content.  A couple of apps have grabbed the headlines in recent months. Flipboard has closed over $60 million in funding and has a $200 million valuation. More recently,…

Instamedia, which is best known for its Instablogs citizen journalism platform, has raised $4 million in a first round of funding from Times of India-owner Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. The Instablogs site lets anybody submit an original article a la NowPublic or link to an existing news story anywhere…

Ken Doctor is a news-industry analyst for Outsell, a global research and advisory firm, and through his own site Newsonomics.com. Below is an excerpt from his new book Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get. The excerpt, about the fierce competition in business news on the…

John Yemma is Editor of The Christian Science Monitor. Let’s agree that Rupert Murdoch is right: Content is king. You’ll get nothing but applause from a journalist of four decades like me. Saying it and believing it, however, doesn’t solve the problem of content racing to zero value on the…

The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business—so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw says that half the FT’s print customers are newsstand buyers, and the company needs to offer an similar a la carte option online as well. Grimshaw, in an interview with…

For nearly 40 minutes, top executives from The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) took questions from interviewer Staci D. Kramer, co-editor and EVP of ContentNext Media, and participants in paidContent 2010. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., chairman and publisher; Janet Robinson, president and CEO; and Martin Nisenholtz, SVP-digital operations, knew the…

If 2009 in the digital-media world needed a title, you could argue it would likely be something to the effect of: “Social media goes mainstream.” Indeed, it’s no secret that social media is a huge force these days, but big questions remain about how companies – even the biggest, buzziest…

The Mirror’s associate editor urged the news business to rely less on search engines and more on its journalism, in a World Newspaper Congress World Editors Forum keynote in Hyderabad, India. Matt Kelly, who first began his public crusade this summer on paidContent:UK, said: “In our great frantic headlong rush…

All aboard the paid content bandwagon: having signaled that its newly acquired Businessweek.com may raise the paywall for certain types of content, Bloomberg is now considering charging Bloomberg.com users up to $1,000 a year to access certain areas of the site starting next year. WSJ reports, citing sources, that Bloomberg.com…

Bloomberg LP, which came in late into the race for the troubled BusinessWeek, has emerged the winning bidder. The magazine, BusinessWeek.com and other assets will go to Bloomberg for a reported $3-5 million in cash and liabilities.  Here’s a round up of our close coverage of the deal: ——Bloomberg Wins…

So far, in our exclusive paidContent:UK/Harris Interactive poll, we’ve learned that only five percent of regular news site users would pay if their favorite haunt started charging, and that readers would prefer to subscribe annually (Thursday’s final installment: will bundling a newspaper subscription help?). But the all-important question is: how…

Day two in our exclusive paidContent:UK/Harris Interactive poll shows that more than half of those surveyed prefer a long-term subscription, not micropayments or day passes. Details here.

If Rupert Murdoch thinks readers will pay to read his websites, maybe he should think again. Exclusive research commissioned by paidContent:UK from Harris Interactive shows that most readers would run a mile. —If their favourite news site begins charging for access to content, three quarters of people would simply switch…

As more newspapers kick around the idea of charging for content, much of the attention has been focused on the pay models employed by the bigger players like the WSJ and the Financial Times. But quietly, some small- and medium-circulation papers are coming up with their own formulas to get…

The 131-year old Chennai-headquartered broadsheet, The Hindu, has launched its new website in beta, where all the breaking news and updates have moved from the old site. The new site, designed by ace newspaper designer Mario Garcia, gives you the distinct feeling that you have seen this site somewhere else.…