Paywalls, hurricanes, and the future of news
Both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal lowered their pay-walls for Hurricane Irene. They did it for separate reasons, but both papers’ actions raise questions about the flexibility of online pay-walls. The Times offered free access to online “storm coverage”, “During this emergency” evidently so that people in the path of the storm could follow...
Giants’ misery lands on doorsteps nationwide
The New York Times’ million or so readers flipped through the paper’s news section today and found a big Bay Area-centric sports spread on A11. The main story was supposedly about the effect of the Giants’ mediocre season on the city of San Francisco, but I couldn’t see how it fit in the news section. The...
Is the night young?
At The New York Times, the answer–apparently–is a resounding yes. The Sunday Business and Sunday Styles sections are two of the most different sections in the Times. But today, readers found big pictures of 20-somethings going clubbing, splashed across both sections–with matching headlines to boot. To give the benefit of the doubt to the Times, this is a juxtaposition of industrious, entrepreneurial youngsters in Silicon...
