(This version corrects an error in the percentage for the price increase of the FT) Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a paywall of sorts and closely monitoring what everyone else is doing. In almost every news company, execs are morosely watching advertising projections and finding numbers that…

This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers. One early sign of this shift was the 2010 launch of paywalls for the London Times and Sunday Times. These involved no new strategy; however, the newspaper…

Starting tomorrow, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel readers who are not print subscribers will have to pay for online access above 20 articles per month, in a digital subscription program called “JS Everywhere.”

As I ponder the future of The New York Times, it occurred to me that its pay meter could be exactly reversed. I’ll also tell you why this wouldn’t work in a minute. But in any case, this is a way to illustate how how media are valuing our readers/users/customers…

Chicago’s second-largest daily newspaper, the Sun-Times, and its 39 affiliated suburban newspapers will all start charging for online content. Starting tomorrow, users, including print subscribers, will have to pay to read more than 20 articles per month. The exception: movie critic Roger Ebert’s website, blog and reviews remain free.

Back in August, we reported how HeraldScotland.com, run by Gannett’s Newsquest would introduce a metered charging system. Now it is about to begin…

In the hopes of saving money while avoiding consolidation, MediaNews Group is introducing “digital-first Mondays” at six of its California newspapers. Of those papers, the three that have paywalls will make all web content free on Mondays, and print subscribers will no longer have to pay an additional cost for…

When Hurricane Irene hit the East Coast last week, several newspapers took down their paywalls for all weather-related coverage. But when does a big weather alert turn from emergency news into an ongoing story? With its new metered paywall, Northern Texas’s Times Record News, which is published by Scripps, is…

For those tracking the success of the NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) meter that started ticking in March, the New York Times says it ended the second quarter with more than 1 million digital subscribers.

Dear Rupert Murdoch: cc: James Murdoch News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). has good reason to try to make digital subscriptions work. I may not like all of the efforts; I don’t have to as long as enough paying readers do. But all should have one thing in common as of now:…

In the weeks since the NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) meter started clicking, we’ve written about the challenges of perception and the millions being invested in marketing the new digital pay scheme. TV ads play an important role in both. At our request, the NYT has posted its first two ads on…