FT considers dropping pay wall
The Guardian’s media section had a story recently that talked about some of the changes at the Financial Times and the Telegraph (registration required). Here’s an excerpt:
Rona Fairhead, Pearson’s former finance director, who took over the running of the FT Group in June, is carrying out a wide-ranging review of the newspaper and its website [and] is examining new business plans and whether to follow the lead of other newspapers and stop charging for access to parts of the FT.com website. There is growing belief among the management, however, that the FT would be better off distancing itself from the head-long charge into free news by retaining some form of charging.
The CEO of Telegraph Group also talked about how there would be some “redundancies” as the Brits like to say, as a result of web-paper integration and moving to a new office.
“As we have recently seen at the Financial Times, the integration of print and online inevitably produces considerable scope for reducing duplication of effort and for simplifying the editorial production processes,” said Telegraph Group chief executive Murdoch MacLennan. Mr MacLennan said the daily newspaper’s business section would be the first to switch to the new 24-hour digital newsroom. Other departments will start transferring at end of the month with the company aiming to complete the move in November.
And while we’re on the subject, Guardian editor Roy Greenslade has some thoughts about web-paper integration and those “redundancies” (which apparently mostly involve copy editors) in his blog.
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