An analysis of paywalls and pay systems

My chapter Paywalls and Pay systems,  has been published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Here is the summary: “Funding of journalism has become a critical part of journalism and digital journalism studies because no single business model has emerged to solve revenue problems for print and digital news outlets. Despite newspapers’ efforts toContinue reading “An analysis of paywalls and pay systems”

Are publishers handing more power to Google?

I wrote in The Conversation about Google’s new subscription tool which supposedly helps news publishers to sell digital subscriptions. It is impossible to say yet, if it works. Couple of thoughts from my article: “It’s surprising that news publishers seem to hand more power to Google because now more than ever there’s an urgency to haveContinue reading “Are publishers handing more power to Google?”