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A view from the paywall

Author: Sara Williams

On Thursday I took part in The Media Briefing’s debut event, Paywall Strategies 2011. The day was dedicated to exploring a variety of different approached to paid digital content and assessing the merits, weaknesses and underlying principles of each. 

This wasn’t the first such event I’ve been to, and in fact I had heard several of the speakers address the topic before. But this is a fast-moving challenge, and I found that the publishing landscape – and, critically, publishers’ attitudes– had changed a lot since the last time I parachuted in.

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Freedom, the press, and freedom of the press

Author: Sara Williams

RTS, Belgrade

I recently attended an ICA debate called Paywalls, Ebooks and the Death of Print. It wasn’t so much a debate about whether print was dying, but a discussion about how the institution of news could be saved, and who should save it.

The usual suspects here are industry, technology and philanthropy. But on this occasion, panelist André Schiffrin brought another contender to the table: government. Whoah now. Government?

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